Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.... huh?
Winning ticket sold for $54 million prize
Last Updated Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:31:58 EDT
CBC News
A winning ticket was sold for Wednesday night's record-setting 6/49 lottery - and the top prize is worth more than $50 million.
According to the Loto-Quebec web site one ticket was sold with the winning numbers, somewhere on the Prairies, and the ticket is worth much more than the $40 million estimate. It's worth $54,294,712.00.
Although Wednesday night's Lotto 6/49 draw has come and gone the question now is who is the lucky individual or group with the winning ticket and when will the rest of the country find out who holds the winning numbers.
Before Wednesday's draw the lineups were long in every part of the country. In the past four days, Canadians have spent an amazing $90 million on 6/49 tickets.
Peter Low, who owns a lottery ticket centre in Vancouver says he's never seen anything like it. "it has been on-going, non-stop," said Low. "I think today will be the busiest day we've ever had."
On Toronto's Bay Street, where the nation's financial wizards make the calculations and take the risks that shape the entire country's economy, sales were brisk.
Investment researchers Richard Wong and Jason Stu were caught in the act. When asked if they thought they were making a good investment, they said, "Not really."
But like millions of other Canadians they just couldn't miss out on an opportunity at $40 million. Abdul Alladin who runs a ticket kiosk says regular customers are buying 10 times as many tickets and the employees of some brokerage firms are going even bigger.
"I had one customers say they are collecting $100 from everyone in their office. They're going to collect $5,000 just from their office alone [for lottery tickets]," said Alladin.
It seems when it comes to lottery fever, Bay Street is the same as any other street in Canada. People want to buy a piece of a fantasy.
An Edmonton man has a strategy. "If I win I'd take my family and disappear," he says.
In Goose Bay, Labrador, people are "very excited."
In Ottawa one man says he's "promised all my friends we'd go to Paris for lunch."
But not everyone is enthralled with the lottery madness. Sean Villeneuve, a ticket store owner in Montreal says he hopes it ends soon.
"Well the most annoying thing is I guess are the people who say 'I want the winning ticket.' I love that one because I would love it too. I would want the winning ticket and yet they think they're special."
The chances of winning were estimated at 1 in 14 million - and someone managed to pull it off. "I would imagine the sales will be somewhere around 25 to 30 million in terms of number of tickets," said Jeff Schultz of the B.C. Lottery Corporation.
About 29 per cent of the money goes to provincial governments. A further 18 per cent is split between operating costs, payments to sellers and the federal government.
Those are the only numbers that are guaranteed- every week.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
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Thursday, October 20, 2005
Svend Robinson ready to launch comeback
There is absolutely NO WAY this petty diamond thief should get a single vote. Are the NDP so poor they can't find anyone without a rap sheet to run. Maybe NDP stands for New Diamond Perps. This is sick. The guy tries to get out of everything by claiming the theft was a moment of "utter irrationality"? Voting for someone with a possible mental disorder (he's the one who plead insanity) would be a moment of utter irrationality.
CBC News
Former NDP MP Svend Robinson is set to make his political comeback official. He will announce on Friday that he plans to seek the NDP nomination in the riding of Vancouver Centre.
Robinson has been hinting at his return to federal politics for some months, and has now scheduled a news conference to spell out his political plans.
Vancouver Centre incumbent Liberal MP Hedy Fry says she's been expecting the announcement for months. "I did speak to Svend once on a plane about nine months ago, when he had been floating a balloon then, and I said, 'Oh ,I hear you want to run in my riding?' And he said, 'Yes.'" Fry has won four consecutive elections in Vancouver Centre, a riding she first won from former Prime Minister Kim Campbell in 1993. And she says she is looking forward to running against Robinson. She says Robinson has acknowledged that they share a similar position on human rights, especially for gays and lesbians. "Svend was very well aware that while he was very strongly advocating for this over most of his career, that in fact he could not achieve any real objectives unless he was in government. And therefore, it was good to know there was somebody in the government of the day, that was going to push his agenda forward
FROM AUG. 6, 2005: Svend Robinson gets probation
Robinson stepped down as an MP last year after making a tearful apology for stealing an expensive ring from an auction house in what he called a moment of "utter irrationality." Since then he's undergone counselling, and has vowed to champion the rights of the mentally ill if returned to office. He's also commissioned a poll to determine whether he'd have a realistic chance at winning an election. And he said two weeks ago he was encouraged by the results.
CBC News
Former NDP MP Svend Robinson is set to make his political comeback official. He will announce on Friday that he plans to seek the NDP nomination in the riding of Vancouver Centre.
Robinson has been hinting at his return to federal politics for some months, and has now scheduled a news conference to spell out his political plans.
Vancouver Centre incumbent Liberal MP Hedy Fry says she's been expecting the announcement for months. "I did speak to Svend once on a plane about nine months ago, when he had been floating a balloon then, and I said, 'Oh ,I hear you want to run in my riding?' And he said, 'Yes.'" Fry has won four consecutive elections in Vancouver Centre, a riding she first won from former Prime Minister Kim Campbell in 1993. And she says she is looking forward to running against Robinson. She says Robinson has acknowledged that they share a similar position on human rights, especially for gays and lesbians. "Svend was very well aware that while he was very strongly advocating for this over most of his career, that in fact he could not achieve any real objectives unless he was in government. And therefore, it was good to know there was somebody in the government of the day, that was going to push his agenda forward
FROM AUG. 6, 2005: Svend Robinson gets probation
Robinson stepped down as an MP last year after making a tearful apology for stealing an expensive ring from an auction house in what he called a moment of "utter irrationality." Since then he's undergone counselling, and has vowed to champion the rights of the mentally ill if returned to office. He's also commissioned a poll to determine whether he'd have a realistic chance at winning an election. And he said two weeks ago he was encouraged by the results.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Wedding Snap
Everyone asks to see photos and since I'm not the kind of guy to post up a dragging slide show I picked the one best one of the two of us. Our photographer was Liza Biagioni of Accent Photography and is highly recommended to anyone seeking a photographer in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.
Sunday, October 09, 2005
Joomla!
Joomla! - Main
I'm working with the new Joomla CMS to develop a site... For basics it sure is easy but when you start digging into the guts of how everything is going to look and work, well, for a non-PHP programmer (heck, non-programmer, period) like me it takes some learning and getting used to. I tried to find somne guys to do it for me but they want an arm and a leg (take advantage of the neophyte) so I'll do it by my own tortured self. Good thing that there is a wealth of information out there with the community of developers.
I'm working with the new Joomla CMS to develop a site... For basics it sure is easy but when you start digging into the guts of how everything is going to look and work, well, for a non-PHP programmer (heck, non-programmer, period) like me it takes some learning and getting used to. I tried to find somne guys to do it for me but they want an arm and a leg (take advantage of the neophyte) so I'll do it by my own tortured self. Good thing that there is a wealth of information out there with the community of developers.
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