TORONTO — Christmas has come a few days early for the owners of the two winning tickets in Saturday night's Lotto 6-49 draw.
The two will split the $5-million jackpot.
One of the tickets was sold in Vancouver, and the other was purchased somewhere in Ontario.
The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Christmas Eve will again be $5-million.
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama spent five minutes today disparaging the potential benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline project. He then kept it alive with five words.
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HALIFAX — Canada is sending another one of its frigates to help a NATO maritime force aiming to provide reassurance to eastern European allies that are jittery over the crisis in Ukraine.
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TORONTO — The Ontario Securities Commission has closed its investigation into three former Nortel Networks executives who were acquitted of fraud last year.
WASHINGTON — At the cigar lounge two blocks from the White House, Cuban smokes aren't on the menu just yet.