Ontario lottery to be investigated

Comment #5

BobP — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:04:49 GMT

Outside of crooked clerks paying lower tier prizes as if the true prize and then cashing the ticket as their own, it isn't hard to figure out why lottery store employees win more often. They see what customers have a lot of winning tickets and play those numbers too. Wouldn't you?

BobP

Comment #4

starchild_45 — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:20:22 GMT

what gets me is that some store owner tried to rip that 82 year old man off. shame on them and things like that never happen in canada. EHH

Comment #3

Wintariofan — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:25:30 GMT

Up until 1990, the lottery corporation did more than broadcast their draws. There was a travelling lottery game called Wintario that operated for 15 years, that would do its draw live from a different town/village in Ontario every week. After 1990, the OLGC had problems connecting with the players because lottery money no longer went into the communities they way they once did...it went into a general revenue fund. Essentially, the government could use the money in any way it wished. The TV

Comment #2

rdc137 — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:26:37 GMT

From what I understand they don't broadcast their drawings. That would probably be a major help.

Comment #1

DoubleDown — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:26:48 GMT

There's a lot to comment on here, but what really jumps off the page is the $6 Million for a new logo .

My first investigation would be the firm that collected that check...

DD

Ontario lottery to be investigated

Lottery Post — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:08:04 GMT

The Ontario Ombudsman will investigate allegations about insiders winning a disproportionate number of lotteries to restore public trust in the province's lottery corporation.

Andr Marin said yesterday that allegations that more than 200 ticket retailers or clerks have won prizes of more than $50,000 in the past seven years have cast a large shadow over the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. and brought into question its actions.

He said he had received few complaints from lottery-tic... [ More ]