B.C. winner of record $80M lottery jackpot quits job, vows to give back to community
May 15, 2025
The winner of what the B.C. Lottery Corp. is calling the biggest jackpot ever awarded to a single person in Canada says that winning the $80 million prize is "life-changing."
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Smoke wafts from a black wooden hut parked on Alfresco Lawn, a quiet residential street in the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto. It’s a grey Saturday morning, the last of winter holding on. One by one, women appear on the street, dressed in a peculiar uniform: bathing suits under waterproof swim parkas, toques, mitts and neoprene booties.There’s laughter, familiarity and anticipation as the women make their way across the beach, an empty expanse at 8:30 a.m. They disrobe, link arms and walk into Lake Ontario, a bracing 3 C.
May 17, 2025 - 08:00 | Zosia Bielski | The Globe and Mail
The Bourne Identity is a 2002 spy thriller starring Matt Damon as an assassin with amnesia who is struggling to uncover his past. It’s a movie-night favourite at my place and I have watched it more times than I can count. The Paris that Bourne races around, trying to avoid the many cops and killers who are out to get him, is a place of honking cars and heavy traffic, completely dominated by the automobile. Today’s Paris is a different city altogether.
May 17, 2025 - 07:00 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
Rich Pereira can’t help but stay up to date with what’s happening inside the nearby courthouse in London, Ont. The bartender at The Scot’s Corner, a dimly lit pub a few blocks away, says he’s constantly bombarded by sports broadcast on multiple TVs affixed to walls throughout the bar. Whenever the hosts flick to the news, coverage of the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial is inevitably a main feature.
May 17, 2025 - 07:00 | Pippa Norman, Matthew Konhauser, Scott Van Haren | The Globe and Mail
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