We have enough lotteries, since some of provincial govn'ts use them to raise money.

I know the law in Ontario changed in late 1980's to allow this. Don't know about the other provinces when their law changed.

People get excited by casinos. Like you Crankin, it actually disgusts me, entertainment thinly disguised to get people to throw their money away. One of the women I worked with for another employer, as celebration for high school graduation, she took her son to a....casino. The boy was 18 yrs. old!


My parents do buy a lottery ticket ...I guess we've never worried about it...it's like us buying Starbuck's coffee almost daily. That would be the equivalent money. (I hope.) They are simply poor elderly, which lotteries do target anyone and everyone.

I have won once in an informal employee based 50/50 kind of "lottery". I won $30.00. Probably the only time I participated out of all the places I've worked.

I'm so glad dearie isn't interested in this type of stuff either.