Audit trail
Public ledger of policy and published Gauge moves. Events are derived, dated, and fingerprinted. They are not edited in place. Look up an event id or fingerprint. Register and desk checks still live on each review.
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2026-09-28
Age and helpline counted off the footer. Signal 6 and signal 28 now count anywhere on the operator site. First files updated: Spin Casino 78 → 83, 888 Casino 75 → 80, Jackpot City 74 → 79, Bacanaplay 71 → 80, Buzz 68 → 73, Fitzdares 70 → 74, LuckyLouis 67 → 71, Simba Games 67 → 71, StakeMate 61 → 65. The rest of the desk continues in rank order.
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2026-09-28
Age and provincial helpline count anywhere on the site. Stake 94. Signal 6 is an age confirmation anywhere on the operator site, not only the footer. Signal 28 is a provincial helpline number anywhere on the site, not only the footer. Stake terms say applicants must be 18 or the age of majority, so player safety is 15 and the Gauge is 94. 1-800-GAMBLER on Stake Smart is not a provincial line, so signal 28 stays 0.
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2026-09-28
Age sentences on the operator site. Age confirmation counts anywhere on the operator site. Caesars Palace Online 89 → 94. Horseshoe Online Casino 86 → 91. PointsBet 85 → 90. Fun Casino 87 → 92. PlayNow 82 → 91, including Saskatchewan Problem Gambling Help Line 1-800-306-6789. Caesars US 84 → 89. Horseshoe US 84 → 89. Las Atlantis 78 → 83 (under 18 may not open an account). theScore Bet 75 → 80 (must be 19+). theScore Casino stays 75 until its own page prints the age. The rest of the desk continues in rank order.
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2026-09-28
Federal and/or provincial helpline. Stake 98. Signal 28 is a federal and/or provincial helpline with a phone number anywhere on the operator site. Locked. Stake Smart names the National Problem Gambling Helpline (1-800-GAMBLER), so responsible gambling is 15 and the Gauge is 98. Still zero: a T&Cs last-updated date.
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2026-09-28
Gauge parameters locked. Licence scale stays 11, 13, and 15. Three or more licences is 15. Age confirmation and a provincial helpline count anywhere on the operator site. Operator FAQ, review, and help pages are additional sources, not the only sources. Cashier min and max are asked before they stay 0. These do not move unless Brent says so.
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2026-09-28
Stake cashier figures on file. Gauge 85. Stake help posts crypto deposits under $0.01 are not auto-processed, and no maximum crypto deposit limit. Interac is named on the CAD withdrawal guide. Signals 14, 16, 17, and 20 now earn. Payments 14. Gauge 85. Licensing stays 15 for 7 licences. Min withdrawal $ is still not a posted dollar. Operator FAQ, operator review pages, help pages, and a help line on those pages earn. A third-party review site does not.
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2026-09-28
Stake holds 7 licences. Licensing 15, Gauge 76. The scale did not change: 1 licence is 11, 2 is 13, 3 or more is 15. Stake was filed as 1 licence. The licensee holds 7. Signals 1+2+3 now earn, so licensing is 15 and the Gauge is 76. applyLicenceCount applies that same scale when licenceCount is 2 or more. A rest-of-Canada hop is still not an Ontario or Alberta licence.
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2026-09-28
Stake operator pages. Gauge 89. Stake's own blog posts a USDT minimum withdrawal of 2.50 and no maximum withdrawal, and names lottery games. Signals 12 and 19 now earn. Payments 15. Fairness 15. Gauge 89. Still zero: footer age gate, a T&Cs date, and a provincial helpline in the footer. Operator FAQ, review, and help lines are additional sources. They are not the only sources.
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2026-09-24
This is a dated record of what Alberta’s two public lists showed for Stake on 24 September 2026. All times are Pacific.
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2026-09-18
ROC desk files leftover-province URLs only. The unit is the scoring URL, not the logo. /roc now lists geography files only — no iGO, AGLC, PlayNow, or Espacejeux URL. A brand with a separate leftover-province cashier gets its own ROC file. Dual-tagged ontario·roc or alberta·roc rows stay on the licensed desk. Gauge integers unchanged. Casino aliases stay disabled.
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2026-09-16
Organization sameAs includes Wikidata Q141470287. Editorial SEO only. TrustFacts (Q141470287) is the live Wikidata item. Organization sameAs is now Telegram https://t.me/Trustfacts_ca, LinkedIn, and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141470287. Person sameAs stays LinkedIn. Gauge integers unchanged. Casino aliases stay disabled.
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2026-09-15
AEO answer cards, Dataset CSV, and citeable changelog fragments. Editorial SEO only. Money-page ledes answer in the first 60 words. Dataset JSON-LD points at /data/trust-gauge.csv with date, market, and licence_id columns. Changelog entries have stable fragment IDs. Reviews carry a one-click suggested citation and BibTeX. /llms-full.txt lists Canada desks and 20 high-volume files. Gauge integers unchanged. Casino aliases stay disabled. Telegram sameAs stays https://t.me/Trustfacts_ca.
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2026-09-15
Alberta-first ranking map; leftover SERP answers. Editorial SEO only. /alberta-casinos H1 and first 40 words answer AGLC 18+ / PlayAlberta + private operators / 13 July 2026 / iGO ≠ Alberta. Live AGLC register table plus an indexable snapshot at /audit/aglc-register-2026-08-26 (other audit children stay noindex,follow). Remaining AGLC names on the 28-operator list are not invented. LeoVegas title/H1 is “LeoVegas Ontario review”. PlayNow title/H1 is “PlayNow casino review”. Cloudbet, DraftKings, and Stake leftover files lead with the SERP answer. B.C. desk owns PlayNow 19+. Ontario first screen defines best as highest Gauge among live iGO, shows a top-10 Gauge/licence/Interac table, and folds the September 2026 filed scores already named on the new-listings blog. RankTable chrome is unchanged. Gauge integers unchanged. Casino aliases stay disabled. Telegram sameAs stays https://t.me/Trustfacts_ca.
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2026-09-15
Alberta hyphen winner; leftover ranking files restored. Editorial SEO plus three authorized honesty files. Live Alberta desk is /alberta-casinos; /alberta 301s there. /guides/licensing-and-regulation 301s to /methodology. Cloudbet 58 (Curaçao crypto, rest-of-Canada), Poly Casino 58 (US/Canada sweepstakes, Ontario/Quebec excluded), and Spindoo 56 (US sweepstakes only) are scored from first-party quotes. All three sit below 60 — no hop. Titles match leftover GSC queries. Unique 600–900 word bodies were not newly written. Casino aliases stay disabled. Telegram sameAs stays https://t.me/Trustfacts_ca.
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2026-09-15
Alias map is HTTP 301, not 308. Editorial SEO only. Edge redirects now send statusCode 301 (Vercel permanent:true was 308). trustfacts.vercel.app 301s to www. /licensing-and-reg 301s to /methodology. Gauge integers unchanged.
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2026-09-15
Canonical URLs are www, never a 301 alias. Editorial SEO only. Indexable pages emit <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.trustfacts.ca/{path}">. Trailing slashes, query strings, apex, and vercel.app rewrite to www. Alias paths remap to the 301 winner. 404s skip canonical. Gauge integers unchanged.
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2026-09-15
Desk snippets name live Gauges; casino files drop Review schema. Editorial SEO only. Ontario, Alberta, B.C., Quebec, ROC, and Canada meta descriptions name the live top Trust Gauges. Casino files do not emit AggregateRating JSON-LD. One editorial Review of the Gauge stays. dateModified follows lastTested. Same-logo US/UK sister files are noindex,follow and leave the sitemap. Gauge integers unchanged.
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2026-09-15
Review files compose a unique census body from fields on the file. Editorial SEO only. Canada-first review pages compose a unique body from who-for, who-not, payout, licence, complaints, first-party quotes, and the earned/zero census. Gauge integers unchanged. Same-logo US/UK sisters stay noindex,follow. lastmod stays lastTested. No AggregateRating JSON-LD. One editorial Review of the Gauge stays. Desk meta descriptions already name live top Gauges. Unique 600–900 word magazine features were not newly reported from the cashier.
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2026-09-15
vercel.app homepage and BC hyphen aliases are HTTP 301. Editorial SEO only. trustfacts.vercel.app/ now 301s to https://www.trustfacts.ca/ (inner paths already did). British Columbia, Quebec, and UK hyphen aliases 301 onto the live desks. Gauge integers unchanged.
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2026-09-13
GSC cannibalization: one winner per Ontario/Canada cluster. Editorial SEO only. Ontario list winner is /ontario — /ontario-casinos and nested /casinos/ontario 308 there. Canada-by-province winner is /canada. Trust Gauge index winner is /casinos (title no longer “Canada, UK, US”). Homepage H2 is “Four licences, not one ranking” so it does not repeat the Canada title. Nested RankTables cannot emit another page’s CollectionPage @id. Casino aliases stay disabled. Telegram sameAs stays https://t.me/Trustfacts_ca. Gauge integers unchanged.
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2026-09-13
GSC click wave: new-Ontario query page, BC SERP, leftover 404 308s. Editorial SEO only. Desk Talk post targets “new Ontario online casinos” (GSC’s largest zero-click query). Ontario H2 is now the list query. BC title/description match “BC online casinos”. Ranking 404s still earning impressions (poly-casino, holland-casino, wild-io, spindoo, casino-friday, toto-nl, casino-cruise, wolf-bet) 308 to live desks. Casino aliases stay disabled. Telegram sameAs stays https://t.me/Trustfacts_ca. Gauge integers unchanged.
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2026-09-13
GSC crawl hygiene: Ontario SERP title, 308 map, Review Person author. Editorial SEO pass only. Ontario and Alberta titles now match “best” queries while keeping iGO/AGLC and Trust Gauge in the SERP. Ranking 404s and leftover Wix /post URLs 308 to live desks. Audit event URLs noindex. Review JSON-LD names Brent Henderson as Person and itemReviewed carries url/@id. RankTable nested on /canada no longer emits /ontario#webpage. Public Gauge CSV at /data/trust-gauge.csv. Telegram sameAs stays https://t.me/Trustfacts_ca. Gauge integers unchanged.
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2026-09-13
Licence strength is high whenever a licence is on file. Jurisdiction no longer sets the licence-strength badge. One earned licence (signal 1) is high — Anjouan, Curaçao, iGO, UKGC, and US-state paper use the same badge. Gauge integers unchanged. Ontario iGO, Alberta AGLC, and PlayNow remain separate legal markets; an ROC hop is still not those licences.
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2026-09-13
Payout fact capped at 150 characters. Review and ranking Payout cells are now 150 characters or fewer. Gauge integers unchanged.
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2026-09-13
Payout fact capped at 210 characters. Review and ranking Payout cells are now 210 characters or fewer. Gauge integers unchanged.
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2026-09-13
Payout fact is cashier copy only. Payout cells on reviews and ranking tables no longer include same-method or CAD census asides. Signal 21 still lives on the Gauge. Integers unchanged.
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2026-09-13
Red Dog Casino Gauge 78 live; Top One hop on ROC desk. Red Dog (red-dog) 78 is the live file — Wonder Play Company N.V., one Anjouan licence ALSI-122310020-F16, rest-of-Canada crypto desk. Homepage also writes Curaçao; conflicting claims do not earn signal 2. Hop attaches at 60+ on the ROC desk only; not legal in Ontario or Alberta. Scoring URL https://reddogcasino.com/. Percentage / CPS / PTI maps stay retired.
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2026-09-13
SERP snippet lock: Ontario, Alberta, BC titles match GSC query language. Editorial SEO only. Ontario title is now “Best online casinos in Ontario (iGO, 19+)”. Alberta title is “Alberta online gambling — AGLC casinos, 18+”. BC title is “British Columbia online casinos (PlayNow, 19+)”. List H2s and FAQ questions use the raw GSC queries. Telegram sameAs stays https://t.me/Trustfacts_ca. Gauge integers unchanged.
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2026-09-13
Stake.com Gauge 72 live; Stake.us unpublished. Stake (stake) 72 is the live file — Medium Rare N.V., one Curaçao licence OGL/2024/1451/0918, rest-of-Canada crypto desk. Ontario is a prohibited jurisdiction. Hop may attach at 60+ on the ROC desk only; not legal in Ontario or Alberta. Stake.us is unpublished. /casino/stake is the review. Percentage / CPS / PTI maps stay retired.
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2026-09-13
Stake.com stays ROC; Stake.us is the US sweepstakes desk. Stake (stake) 72 stays rest-of-Canada. Stake.us (stake-us) 73 is the US desk only (us-sweeps). Not NJ/PA/DGE. Visit opens https://stake.us/.
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2026-09-09
Official UK Gauge files (World400). Fifty-seven first-party UK files. Existing Canada and US Gauge integers are unchanged. Percentage / CPS / PTI maps stay retired.
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2026-09-08
Official US Gauge files (World400 leftovers). Nineteen first-party US files. Existing Canada Gauge integers are unchanged.
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2026-09-02
The Gauge replaced percentage weights. The Gauge is now a 100-point score from 30 signals across seven pillars. Percentage weights are retired. Scores stay editorial and are not sold.
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2026-08-26
AGLC iGaming register snapshot (2026-08-26). May 2026 AGLC confirmed-operator list (28 operators) plus PlayAlberta. Market launched 2026-07-13. 15 named operators on this file; remaining names on the 28-operator list are not invented. Confirm https://aglc.ca/gaming-registrants. 18+.
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Audit FAQ
- What is the public audit trail?
- An append-only ledger of policy and published Gauge moves. Events are derived, dated, and fingerprinted. They are not edited in place.
- Which audit pages are indexed?
- Most /audit/{id} pages are noindex. The AGLC register snapshot (2026-08-26) is the indexable exception. Confirm the live AGLC register — a snapshot is not the live list.