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Ontario police to announce charges in lottery insider investigationNews Story
Police refuse to elaborate Insider lottery charges to be explained in Wed. press conference The Ontario Provincial Police will announce Wednesday that they have laid a set of charges following investigations into insider lottery wins in Ontario. The charges, which will be announced at a news conference, relate to a multi-million-dollar fraudulent lottery prize claim, said Inspector Dave Ross of corporate communications for the Ontario Provincial Police. The charges come nine month
Dec 18, 2007, 9:25 pm - Lottery News

Canada couple collects $18.5M lottery winNews Story
Lightning strikes twice as 6/49 win follows $13,000 slot machine windfall A Caledon, Ontario, couple have won $18.5 million in the latest Lotto 6/49 draw, right after collecting a $13,000 slot machine jackpot. Anthony and Antonietta Marrocco were on hand at the lottery offices in downtown Toronto this afternoon, beaming from ear to ear as they accepted the cheque. The couple, who have been playing the lottery steadily for eight years, could hardly believe their good fortune. Antonietta
Nov 12, 2007, 11:45 pm - Lottery News

Two-time lottery winner picks up $15 millionNews Story
Robert Hong had a better chance of opening an oyster in his Kirkland Lake restaurant and finding a pearl than winning a lottery. But he did it twice. Win the lottery that is not find a pearl. On Saturday, Hong discovered he had picked all six numbers in the Lotto 6/49 draw, giving him a $15 million jackpot. Just six months ago, he had a $340,000 win with a friend. I really couldn't believe it, Hong said after picking up his prize at the Toronto prize office on Tuesday. To win
Nov 12, 2007, 1:27 pm - Lottery News

Auditors find 21 unreported wins by BC lottery retailers but no fraudNews Story
Auditors studying the integrity of B.C.'s public lottery system found 21 previously unreported lottery wins of $10,000 or more by retailers who sell tickets to the public, says an independent report released Thursday. B.C. Solicitor General John Les, who ordered an independent probe of the lottery system last May, said the discovery did not point to fraud within the Crown-owned lottery corporation that raked in $2.4 billion in revenues in the 2007 fiscal year. 'There's not evidence per se
Nov 12, 2007, 10:17 am - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery may ban retailers from buying tickets from own storesNews Story
Ontario lottery retailers are railing against a proposal to ban them from buying and cashing in tickets in their own stores, saying it unfairly portrays them as the villains in the province's lottery scandal. Retailers will be upset that we're the ones being painted as the bad guys in all this, says Chris Wilcox of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. tried to impose the rule on retailers in August before backing off in the face of the associat
Oct 31, 2007, 9:27 am - Lottery News

W.C. store owner claims Lotto 6/49 jackpotNews Story
Lottery conducts 'mandatory investigation' Many store owners dream of making a lot of money with their business. Blair Knutson did it the unconventional way he bought a Lotto 6/49 ticket from the grocery store he owns in Gimli, Man. The purchase made the owner of G C Grocery $16 million richer. In case that raised any eyebrows, officials with the Western Canada Lottery Corp. quickly announced they have conducted a mandatory investigation and have determined Knutson is the rightfu
Oct 25, 2007, 8:10 am - Lottery News

Atlantic Lottery adds new ticket security measuresNews Story
The Atlantic Lottery Corp. is introducing more measures aimed at tightening the security of lottery ticket validation, the corporation said this week. Starting Monday, the corporation's online ticket terminals will print two slips whenever a winning ticket is validated for an amount the retailer is to pay, a release Wednesday said. After validating winning tickets, retailers will be required to pay the prize, stamp the winning tickets Paid, and return them along with one of the validation
Aug 12, 2007, 10:17 am - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery glitch infuriates customers, prevents salesNews Story
Would-be millionaires were angered Wednesday when they were prevented from buying lottery tickets due to a glitch that affected thousands of lottery terminals. Lottery officials said a piece of equipment at their data centre in Toronto malfunctioned. The broken piece of equipment has affected nearly 2,000 lottery terminals across the province, which is equivalent to roughly 20 per cent of their machines. Many of the affected terminals are located in the GTA and eastern Ontario. Local
Jul 11, 2007, 8:33 pm - Lottery News

Retired Ontario couple wins second lottery jackpotNews Story
Jadwiga and Rudy Taylor didn't react like lottery winners Monday when they were presented with a $20 million check in Toronto. There was no jumping up and down, no screaming, no pumping of fists in victory for the married couple, he in his 80s and she 48. Hard to blame the Taylors, though. After all, when it comes to collecting a big cash prize, they've been there and done that. The couple won $1 million in 1999 on an Ontario 49 quick-pick ticket. When asked why she kept playing
Jun 20, 2007, 9:20 am - Lottery News

2 more execs fall victim to Ontario Lottery scandalNews Story
VP fired, another shuffled out of job One senior executive was fired and another reassigned yesterday as the fallout from a scandal involving allegations of fraud and suspicious insider wins at the provincial lottery corporation widened. Michelle DiEmanuele, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation's interim chief executive, announced the changes yesterday afternoon in a memo to staff. Vice-president Ingrid Peters was fired after eight years with the company. She earned more than $267,000
Jun 13, 2007, 8:36 am - Lottery News