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No, a toonie = $2 coin.  I researched it before posting the article.

It's all over.

Seventeen people who work at Viking Holdings in Sedgewick are the winners of the biggest jackpot in Canadian history – splitting a record-breaking pot of $54,294,712.

That works out to $3,193,806.58 per winner.

Reportedly in the four days leading up to the draw Canadians spent an amazing $90 million on 6/49 tickets.  Since there are only 14 millions possible combinations in a 6/49 game, I surprised there weren't  more winning tickets.

Yes, 17 people shared the prize, but for the last few months, 18 of them were in the pool, however one guy was on holidays so he wasn't in that draw.  I hope they still give him something since he was a member of their regular pool.

RE: Loonie/Toonie.  The $1 coin is the Loonie - The bird on the back in the water is a Loon.  The $2 coin was first issued several years later, and although it has a polar bear on the back it is nicknamed Toonie. 

People dump their foreign coins at the Coinstar machine where I work. That's how come I have Toonies without being in Canada in recent years.