About this network and how it works
Hard Hat North is a network of nine independent industry guides for Canadian blue-collar rotational work -- oil sands, camp life, ice road trucking, pipeline, mining, forestry, offshore oil, commercial fishing, and long-haul trucking. It is not affiliated with any employer, camp operator, or union named on any of the nine sites.
Alongside industry content, each site compares provincially regulated online gambling operators for readers who choose to gamble off-shift, and shows only operators registered for the visitor's own province. See each site's own affiliate disclosure and responsible gambling pages for the full detail on how that works -- linked from its own responsible gambling page here, or directly on each site.
Who runs Hard Hat North?
Hard Hat North is run by a single solo operator based in Alberta -- not a company, agency, or gambling operator. No page on any of the nine sites is written or reviewed by an employer, camp operator, union, or gambling operator that the page covers or compares.
How is content researched and sourced?
Industry and pay figures come from public sources -- government occupation profiles, Job Bank, StatCan, union pay scales, and company career pages -- cited and dated on the page that uses them. Where a figure or program detail hasn't been independently confirmed against its own source yet, the page says so in plain words rather than presenting it as settled fact.
What does "estimate" or "unconfirmed" mean on this site?
It means exactly that: a number, affiliate commission rate, or program detail that hasn't yet been checked against the source's own page. Labelled figures get re-checked over time and updated once confirmed -- nothing on this network is presented as confirmed until it actually has been.
How does Hard Hat North make money?
This network earns a commission when a reader signs up with a gambling operator through a link on one of its nine sites. An operator has to be registered in the reader's own province before it's ever shown. Operators we have a commission arrangement with are marked as partners and may be listed first -- the same thing the notice at the top of every page says. What we write about an operator doesn't change because of a commission. There's no cost to the reader either way.
Editorial independence
No employer, camp operator, union, or gambling operator pays for or reviews a page on this network before it goes up, including this one. What gets written and which pages get built are our own calls. The one place a commission arrangement shows is the order of operators on a comparison page, where partners are marked and may appear first.
Contact and corrections
Found a wrong salary figure, an outdated helpline number, or an expired program detail? Email [email protected] with what's wrong and, if you have one, a better source. Confirmed errors get fixed and the page's date updated.
One operator, nine sites
The nine sites below share the same codebase, the same compliance rules, and the same sourcing standard, but each one is written for its own industry's audience. See each site's own "About" page for what it covers, who runs it, and how its industry and salary figures are sourced.
Frequently asked questions
Who runs Hard Hat North?
A solo operator based in Alberta -- not a company, agency, or gambling operator. No employer, camp operator, union, or gambling operator named or compared on any of the nine sites writes or reviews their own coverage here.
Is this network affiliated with any employer?
No. None of the nine sites are affiliated with any employer, camp operator, or union they cover -- see each site's own about page below for its specific affiliation statement.
Does this network cover online gambling?
Yes -- alongside industry content, each site compares provincially regulated online gambling operators for readers who choose to gamble off-shift, and shows only operators registered in the visitor's own province. See each site's own affiliate disclosure and responsible gambling pages for the full detail.
Where do the industry and salary figures come from?
Public sources -- government occupation profiles, Job Bank, StatCan, union pay scales, and company career pages -- where possible, labelled "estimate" or "unconfirmed" where they have not yet been independently re-confirmed. See individual blog posts for cited sources.
How do I report an error or ask for a correction?
Email [email protected] with what's wrong and, if you have one, a better source. Confirmed errors get fixed and the page's date updated.