Last year, Canada introduced a new lottery system used to extend permanent-resident status to the parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens. The process was designed to randomly select applicants ...

Canada’s family-reunification program is using a common spreadsheet application to select candidates as part of a process critics say is flawed and open to manipulation. As the first step in the ...

Fun with numbers. Voters have okayed a Florida lottery that probably will be in place this year. But just how will it work? Joseph A. Ellul, 67, of Palm Bay, has some ideas on the subject. He promoted ...

Selling a lottery to Floridians would seem to be a fait accompli now that the issue has landed on the Nov. 4 ballot via a petition effort. In various polls, over the past several months, two out of ...