A POSTCODE lottery of care means some women are more than twice as likely to die from breast cancer depending on where they live.
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We did the math to see if it’s worth buying a Powerball or Mega Millions lottery ticket
Thomson Reuters The jackpots for both Powerball and Mega Millions are above $ 300 million as of Thursday morning. Even though that’s a pretty big prize, working through the math of how lotteries work suggests buying a ticket is not a great investment. The low probability of winning and the risk of splitting the prize […]
Some patients pay thousands while others nothing at all in ‘medical postal code lottery’
A hearing-impaired Calgary man is travelling to Austria to get a life-changing medical device surgically implanted that will help him hear clearly for the first time. Because the Alberta government won’t pay for the surgery, his retired parents are footing the $ 50,000 bill. CBC | Health News
Trump says NY terrorist helped 23 others move to US, pushes to end migration lottery
Published time: 3 Nov, 2017 02:27 US President Donald Trump is invoking Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Manhattan to pass the RAISE Act, which would terminate the Diversity Visa Program. Central to that effort is President Trump’s claim that suspected terrorist Sayfullo Saipov brought 23 Uzbeks with him under the Diversity Visa Program after he immigrated […]
National Lottery DOWN – Website not working, Euro Millions players unable to buy tickets
The National Lottery website is currently down as gamers scramble to play the Euro Millions tonight. Gamers starting seeing the site wasn’t working at around 7pm tonight and things still appear to be offline. Independent website, Down Detector, is showing a huge number of reports from users saying that National Lottery is down. According to […]
21 lottery winners who blew it all
IBN/screenshot The Powerball lottery has reached a staggering jackpot of $ 700 million ahead of Wednesday’s drawing. The prize is the second-largest in history, behind only the $ 1.6 billion won by three entrants in January 2016. While buying a ticket may seem tempting, the numbers suggest that it almost certainly isn’t worth it. But […]
Civil groups sue State Department for refusing to process visas of lottery winners
A quartet of civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit against the State Department for refusing to process applications from winners of the visa lottery program who hail from six Muslim-majority countries included in Donald Trump’s revised travel ban. The State Department has refused to issue visas under Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV) Program despite awarding […]
Canucks, Jets await April 29 NHL draft lottery
While five Canadian teams ready themselves for the NHL playoffs, the Vancouver Canucks and the Winnipeg Jets have the April 29 draft lottery in Toronto to look forward to. Vancouver has the second-best odds of obtaining the coveted No. 1 pick at 12.1 per cent, while Winnipeg has a 2.7 per cent chance. After finishing […]
Taking the money out of marijuana, and how to feel like you’ve won the lottery
Second Opinion is a vital dose of the week’s news in health and medicine from reporter Kelly Crowe and CBC Health. CBC | Health News
