TORONTO — The $5 million jackpot prize in last night`s Lotto 649 draw went unclaimed.
The jackpot for next Wednesday`s draw will rise to approximately $7 million, and there will also be one guaranteed prize of a million dollars.
That's Ottawa's new projection for next year's budgetary surplus following Prime Minister Stephen Harper's $5.8-billion infrastructure announcement.
MONTREAL — The defence formally rested its case in the first-degree murder trial of Luka Rocco Magnotta on Tuesday without the accused having taken the stand.
PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A crew member aboard a fishing boat told a murder trial in Cape Breton on Monday that Phillip Boudreau was shot at and hooked with a fishing gaff after the captain suspected him of "playing" with their lobster traps.
SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Members of the National Energy Board will hit the road early in the new year to hear what Canadians have to say about pipeline safety.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador's governing Progressive Conservatives will try to improve their fortunes today in a pair of byelections after losing the last five.
PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A key witness at the trial of a lobster fisherman accused of killing another fisherman in Nova Scotia says he did not actually see the accused use a fishing gaff to drag the victim out to sea.