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Canadian lightning strike survivor wins lotteryNews Story
Defies odds of 1 in 2.6 trillion of both events happening to one person Lucky would be an understatement to describe one man in Canada. Peter McCathie survived being hit by lightning when he was a teenager and now he's won the lottery both events combined come to about a 1 in 2.6 trillion chance. McCathie is splitting the $1 million Lotto 6/49 prize with co-worker Diana Miller, the Atlantic Lottery told ABC News today. He's getting an additional $10,000 since he owns the Amherst Shor
Jul 23, 2015, 12:01 pm - Lottery News

Sister loses fight over $32M jackpot her brother split with barberNews Story
Sam Haddad did a happy dance outside the Ottawa courthouse Tuesday, minutes after a judge dismissed a lawsuit from his sister seeking millions from the $32 million lottery jackpot he and his longtime barber won five years ago. Five years of hell is almost over. It's over! the 63-year-old Ottawa man cried, as a female relative ululated joyfully behind him. That's Lebanese yodelling, Haddad explained to bemused journalists. Now we can enjoy our money, Haddad's wife, Denise, exclaimed. We'r
Nov 14, 2013, 8:02 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner is sued by his sisterNews Story
Claims she gave him $1 towards tickets A handyman who won a $32 million jackpot lottery with his barber is being sued by his sister who says she is entitled to a third of the winnings. Leila Nahas claims she paid her brother Samir Haddad $1 toward the $3 winning ticket and deserves $10.6 million, plus $500,000 in damages. But Haddad said he doesn't owe her a dime, because 'they never had an agreement'. Haddad and his longtime friend and barber Mike Dettorre hit the jackpot with a Lot
Oct 17, 2013, 5:46 am - Lottery News

Man claims half of record $63.4 million Canada Lotto 6/49 jackpotNews Story
There were 4 winning tickets 2 of which were his Harry Black won an incredible $31.7 million in the lottery, but the way he accomplished it is even more amazing. The Surrey, British Columbia, man who won half of a record-breaking Canada Lotto 6/49 jackpot has come forward more than a month after the draw with not just one, but two winning tickets. The British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) said that each of the four winning tickets in its $63.4 million Lotto 6/49 draw on April 13 w
May 31, 2013, 8:32 am - Lottery News

Canada's Lotto 6/49 is getting a makeover in Fall 2013News Story
Canada's national Lotto 6/49 game is getting ready for a makeover. Starting in September 2013, Lotto 6/49 will offer Canadian lottery players a new $1 million prize that's guaranteed to be won with each and every draw, jackpots that start at $5 million, and new free play prizes that can be won by matching just 2 numbers. With the new $1 million prize that's guaranteed to be won with every draw, Lotto 6/49 will be creating more millionaires every week, said Greg McKenzie, Senior Vice Presi
May 7, 2013, 2:04 pm - Lottery News

Woman sues business partner for share of $12.6M lottery jackpotNews Story
A lawsuit launched by a New Westminster, British Columbia, woman who claims she was tricked out of her equal share of a $12.6 million lottery jackpot is going to a full trial. A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled that the legal action filed by Maria Ganguin over the winning Canada Lotto 6/49 ticket against her ex-business partner, Maria Fehr, and her husband, Daniel Fehr, should be settled with full testimony before a trial judge. The defendants sought to have the matter resolved in a summ
Jun 6, 2012, 8:00 am - Lottery News

Dropping out of lottery pool costs teacher millionsNews Story
Dave Johnston is kicking himself for pulling out of a lottery pool that's about to cash in a lucky ticket for $30 million. The steam-fitting instructor at Red Deer College in central Alberta, Canada, used to play regularly with plumbing teachers he sat with in the school's lunchroom every day. But he pulled out over a year ago. It's hard to stay in, said Johnston, who added he kept putting in his cash but the pool wasn't winning big. He eventually decided it just wasn't going to happen
Nov 25, 2011, 3:10 am - Lottery News

$7 million lottery winner doesn't change a thingNews Story
Played same numbers for 21 years After realizing he had won $7 million in a Canada Lotto 6/49 draw three weeks ago, Eddie Uy of Richmond, British Columbia, did what not many big lottery winners would do. He ate his breakfast, packed a lunch, as usual, and went to work at the Burnaby cardboard-box factory where he has been employed for the last 19 years. Uy, 59, actually waited three weeks before letting British Columbia Lottery Corp. know he was the winner of the Aug. 3 jackpot, but he
Sep 9, 2011, 8:04 am - Lottery News

Lottery fraudster denied, real winner foundNews Story
The lottery gods have handed a man more than $90,000 in winnings but only after an alleged ticket thief was denied the same prize. In a strange case the likes of which lottery officials say they haven't seen in more than 10 years, a gas station clerk has been arrested and charged with stealing a customer's Lotto 6/49 tickets then tried to claim the prize after one ticket hit it big. There's some incredible uniqueness to this one because a ticket that was stolen ended up with a prize in ex
Sep 1, 2011, 12:08 pm - Lottery News

Workers win the lottery one day after being laid offNews Story
Group of manufacturing employees will split $7 million prize Includes video report In Canada, a group of employees at an Ottawa manufacturing plant say they won the $7 million Lotto 6/49 prize Wednesday, the same day their company announced massive layoffs. Eighteen employees at SMART technologies including 10 who got layoff notices on Wednesday were part of the group of winners, according to Colin Willard, one of the ticket holders. Willard, who worked at SMART for seven years, was
Aug 16, 2011, 10:10 pm - Lottery News