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Latest news about Canadian lottery winners, and the Canada lottery.

Canadian Lottery Winner Used To Mock Dad For Buying Tickets

August 7th, 2013

Ngawang Nardechen is not convinced that money spent for lottery tickets is money well spent.  In fact he has often told his father to imagine how much money he would have, if he had saved money instead of using it to make lottery bets. 

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Woman Wins $1 Million After Moving To New House

August 6th, 2013

Sneh Padarat bought a Western Max ticket for the May 3 draw at a Mac’s store the same weekend she moved. She buys tickets and never thinks she will actually win, so she just kept the ticket with some of her papers.

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Search For Breath Mints Lead To Fresh Cash

August 6th, 2013

When blessings are headed your way, it will hitch a ride on anything to get to you – even breath mints.  That is what retiree Laurence Goldwater found when a 6/49 ticket he had bought at a store where he stopped to get breath mints for his wife won a jackpot worth $11,062,889.80.

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Lotto Winner’s Jackpot To Pay For Family And Friend’s Mortgages

July 22nd, 2013

John Van Dusen Sr. finally hit the jackpot after regularly buying Western Max lottery tickets since they first came out.  He won a cool million dollars.

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Vacation Trip Yields Million Dollar Surprise

July 15th, 2013

Trips out of town usually means a hole in the pocket for most people; but apparently not for John Lewis and his family.

John, of Amherst N.S.,

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First Nations Couple Win $1 Million On First Try

July 15th, 2013

We all know that the odds of winning the lottery are always millions to one; but what are the odds of winning the lottery on the first try?

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Ontario Family Wins $50 Million Jackpot

July 13th, 2013

66-year-old Lynda Powell, has played the lottery regularly for 25 years, but in the past few years the family bought tickets together.  Luck finally smiled on them big time during the July 5 Lotto Max jackpot draw; their ticket won $50 million.

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$1 Million Lotto Max Prize Claimed Just In Time

July 2nd, 2013

Gizella Tasnadi and Bruce Swanston of Grande Prairie had just claimed their jackpot prize of $1 million nearly a year after the draw date.  But it was not a long wait for them, as they have just found out they were winners.

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Pot Activist Lotto Winner Leaves $10,000 Tip

June 30th, 2013

Lottery winner Bob Erb has been in the news for his campaign to legalize marijuana.  He also finds time to help people in his hometown.

He is in the news again after giving a $10,000 tip to Old West Express Diner owner Clifford Luther. 

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Kentville Restaurant Workers Get $15.2M “Tip” From The Lottery

June 23rd, 2013

Kentville restaurant owner’s wife Wafaa Toulany and four restaurant workers received a huge $15.2 million “tip” from the lottery.  The lottery syndicate of five, who have been playing the lottery for the past eight years, finally won big.

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