Search

Canada Lotto Max players awaiting huge draw tonightNews Story
By Todd Northrop New Year's Eve might be a lucky night for Lotto Max players across Canada. Since no winning tickets were sold for the $50 million jackpot in last week's Christmas Eve draw, lottery players are getting another chance tonight at the $50 million jackpot, with an additional estimated 18 MaxMillions $1 million prizes. Talk about starting 2011 off with a bang! This would be a great way to begin the New Year for Lotto Max players because there are lots of additional $1 millio
Dec 31, 2010, 11:12 am - Lottery News

Ontario lottery players finally get their share of jackpotNews Story
Fifth claimant pulled out of lawsuit early; won't get share Santa Claus is finally coming to town for four local families who've waited almost three years to see him. Slawomir Kowalewski, a former employee of Powco Steel Co. who believed that he'd been duped out of his share of a $24,520,300 Lotto 6/49 jackpot on Jan. 16, 2008, is one of four recipients of this week's settlement of approximately $4 million from the Ontario Lottery Gaming Corp. (OLGC). I'm so happy for my family and my
Dec 13, 2010, 11:51 am - Lottery News

Con artists target N.J. seniors in lottery scamNews Story
The first call came in December. How are you? How's your day? We have a wonderful thing to tell you, a 65-year-old Ocean County woman said of her first telephone conversation with the Jamaican-sounding strangers. They said I had won an award, the woman said. (The prizes) ranged from $1.5 million to over $5.5 million. The callers told her she had to send them money to purchase stamps so that her prize could be delivered. She sent the money, but then she got more phone calls with vario
Nov 7, 2010, 9:55 am - Lottery News

LottoMax winners collect $50M jackpotNews Story
By Todd Northrop A gay Vancouver couple who are marking their 30th anniversary next month will have plenty to celebrate after winning a $50 million lottery jackpot. Kurt and Claude Blanchette-Ebert claimed the winning ticket for last week's Lotto Max draw on Tuesday in front of media. Sixty-three-year-old Kurt told reporters he could barely believe his eyes when he checked his ticket, adding the win has not yet sunk in. I stuck my ticket into this machine and it read $50 million, he
Nov 4, 2010, 8:54 am - Lottery News

Canada lottery winner robbed, beatenNews Story
Should winners' information be published? The daughter of a Canadian lottery winner said she believes her mother was robbed and beaten because information was published about the winner. Diana Masciotra, the daughter of Evelyn Cassis of Kirkland, Quebec, asked Loto-Quebec, the Quebec lottery to stop publishing information about her mother after Cassis was attacked in her home following her $52,000 lottery win, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Thursday. Two men wearing masks and
Oct 16, 2010, 8:17 am - Lottery News

Canadian family charged with stealing $12.5M lottery jackpotNews Story
Search is on for rightful owner of winning ticket Are you the victim of an alleged $12.5-million lottery jackpot theft? Ontario police say someone else celebrated with what should have been your happy dance. The rightful owner of the Super 7 ticket was defrauded of the winnings nearly seven years ago, police say. Meanwhile, investigators allege the family accused of stealing the winnings lived in the lap of luxury multiple homes and BMW and Mercedes vehicles were among their big-ticket
Sep 30, 2010, 8:23 am - Lottery News

Canadian woman wins lottery on 18th birthdayNews Story
A Winnipeg teen celebrated her birthday the way most of us can only dream of with a winning $1 million lottery ticket. Taylor Witzke turned 18 on Labor Day, so as an adult, she decided to buy a few lottery tickets the next day four Scratch 'n Win tickets. I scratched a Blackjack ticket and won nothing, then picked up the Set for Life ticket, Witzke said. I saw three Set for Life symbols, but thought, no, you must need four. So I turned it over and read the instructions ... I handed it to
Sep 16, 2010, 8:40 am - Lottery News

Undercover lottery investigation tests store clerks' honestyNews Story
If you end up with a winning lottery ticket, you'll end up with the cash... right? A television investigative program recently traveled to various states testing the honesty and integrity of lottery store clerks in correctly informing customers of their winning lottery tickets. What they discovered was a mixed bag: although some clerks correctly identified wins for their customers, many did not. In fact, several attempted to basically steal their customer's winnings by telling them their l
Sep 7, 2010, 9:32 am - Lottery News

Online gambling coming to OntarioNews Story
In a bid to keep millions spent on offshore gambling websites in the province, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. says Ontarians will have access to legal online gambling by 2012. Across Canada and around the world, online commerce is part of our everyday lives and OLG is excited to start the consultation process for online gaming and growing its marketplace in the future, OLG chairman Paul Godfrey said Tuesday. Thousands of Ontario residents spend nearly $400 million a year through unr
Aug 11, 2010, 9:34 am - Lottery News

Canada's new online gambling website may have been hackedNews Story
PlayNow may have compromised users' personal information, opposition party says British Columbians' personal information may have been compromised when the government's online gambling website, PlayNow.com, crashed last week, according to the New Democratic Party. PlayNow, the first government-sanctioned online casino in North America, was shut down only hours after it was launched last Thursday. The B.C Lottery Corp. said unexpectedly high traffic caused the server to crash, so it had
Jul 20, 2010, 9:59 am - Lottery News