Curaçao, Anjouan and Tobique Licences: What Each Means for Players in Alberta and Ontario

No. A casino that accepts Canadian dollars and Interac and shows a Curaçao licence is not, for that reason, authorized to offer games to players in Alberta. Since July 13, 2026, an operator in Alberta must be registered with Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC) and have a commercial agreement with the Alberta iGaming Corporation (AiGC). In Ontario, it needs a registration from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) and an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. A Curaçao, Anjouan, Tobique, Kahnawà:ke or Malta licence is none of these. The table at the end of this page compares nine licences and provincial authorizations, checked on October 19 and 20, 2026.

I’m in Alberta and the site shows a Curaçao licence. What should I check?

Check the province’s own list, not the licence. Three things settle it:

1. The AiGC list of registered sites. It had 51 entries when we read it on October 19, 2026, including Betty, BetMGM, BetRivers, bet365, Casino Days, DraftKings, FanDuel, PlayOJO, theScore, Jackpot City, Spin Casino and others.
2. The AGLC register of gaming registrants. Its export listed 42 entries in the class “iGaming - Operator”, each with an expiry date.
3. The logos on the site. AiGC says a site regulated in Alberta shows the official AiGC logo and the Responsible Gambling Council RG Check seal.

Canadian dollars and Interac show what payments a site accepts. They say nothing about who authorized it. You also have to be physically located in Alberta to log in or bet with a regulated Alberta operator, and you must be 18 or older. Our page on Alberta’s rules after the July 2026 launch covers the transition in detail.

The Curaçao Gaming Authority does publish a licence register, but it lists licensee companies, not brands or websites, and the authority warns that its overviews do not guarantee current validity. On October 19, 2026 its home page also said its online gaming portal was offline during a move to a new platform.

What is the Tobique Gaming Commission?

The Tobique Gaming Commission (TGC) is established by the Tobique Gaming Act 2023, published by the Commission in April 2024. The Act bases the Commission on the Tobique First Nation’s claimed inherent right of self-government and gives it power to license gaming based in or offered from the Territory, including to players outside it. Section 4 of the Act states that it is paramount over any federal or provincial act touching gaming as it relates to Tobique First Nation. That is the Act’s own claim; we found no court or provincial statement recognizing it.

Differentia Licensing Advisory Group (DLAG), based in the Isle of Man, says it is the Commission’s sole appointed Direct Licensee and processes licence applications. DLAG describes Tobique as a Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) First Nation community on the Tobique River in western New Brunswick. According to DLAG, a B2C licence covers all game types, includes five web addresses and is valid for one year.

The Commission’s own site, thetgc.ca, has a License Holders page. On October 19, 2026 it listed 173 B2C and 24 B2B entries by company name, with licence type and expiry date, but without licence numbers or websites. Licence seals on licensed sites can link to a validation page at validate.thetgc.ca, which names the company and its registered websites.

What does a Tobique licence allow in each province?

The TGC’s restricted-jurisdictions list (version 21) names the Canadian Province of New Brunswick, the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Israel, Russia and others, and says licensees must not offer services to persons there. Ontario and Alberta are not on it. DLAG’s FAQ gives a shorter list (the UK, the USA, New Brunswick and FATF-sanctioned countries) and adds that licensees must check local law in each market themselves.

One licensing consultant, Intelium Law, states that the Tobique restricted list includes Ontario. The TGC list version 21 and the DLAG FAQ that we read on the same day do not name Ontario. We record this as a conflict between a consultant’s statement and the official list.

None of this makes a Tobique licence a provincial authorization. A province missing from the TGC restricted list means only that the TGC does not forbid its licensees to serve it. In Ontario and Alberta, the provincial requirements above still apply. In British Columbia, the provincial government says PlayNow.com is the only legal online gambling site. Our province-by-province reference sets out the rest.

What about Anjouan, Kahnawà:ke and Malta?

• Anjouan. Licensee sites name the Anjouan Gaming Commission of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan, Union of Comoros. We could not find an official public register of Anjouan licensees; the sources we found were consultants and affiliates. Licensee seals link to validation pages whose official status we could not confirm.
• Kahnawà:ke. The Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission regulates gaming conducted within or from the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawà:ke, near Montréal, and publishes a permit-holder list. Since July 2022 it no longer offers Interjurisdictional Authorizations. CBC reported that an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled against the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke’s challenge to iGaming Ontario’s framework.
• Malta. The Malta Gaming Authority publishes a Licensee Register and a URL Checker.

What the table shows

1. Two authorizations work in Ontario or Alberta, and each works in one province only. An AGCO registration with an iGaming Ontario agreement covers players physically in Ontario; an AGLC registration with an AiGC agreement covers players physically in Alberta. Neither carries over.
2. Provincial operators are not licences. Loto-Québec and BCLC run their own sites in their provinces.
3. Registers differ in what they show. The TGC and Curaçao lists are by company; Malta adds a URL checker; Ontario and Alberta list the sites themselves.

How we checked

We read the regulators’ own pages and documents: the AGLC and AiGC pages and registers, the iGaming Ontario directory, the Tobique Gaming Act 2023 and restricted-jurisdictions list, the TGC License Holders page, the Curaçao, Kahnawà:ke and Malta registers. The Tobique documents are hosted by DLAG; thetgc.ca was read from a Quebec connection on October 19, 2026, the rest on October 19 from outside Canada. Consultant statements are labelled as such and used only where they conflict with an official source. The date in each row shows when it was last checked. For how a licence differs from an Ontario registration in practice, see Ontario’s AGCO, iGO and OLG roles.

What we could not confirm

• An official public register for Anjouan licences.
• Whether a Tobique, Curaçao, Kahnawà:ke or Malta licence permits offering games in provinces other than Ontario, Alberta and New Brunswick: the licence documents do not say, and provincial law decides.
• The current state of the Curaçao online portal after October 19, 2026.

Check a site yourself

Ignore the licence logo for a moment and go to your province’s list. In Alberta, search the AiGC list of registered sites or the AGLC register for the site’s name. In Ontario, search the iGaming Ontario directory. If the site is there, the provincial rules on self-exclusion, complaints and player funds apply to it. If it is not, a licence from somewhere else does not bring it under those rules. For an example of a check on one operator, see our page on DraftKings in Alberta.