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TORONTO — The $25.9 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw was claimed by a single ticket sold in British Columbia. The grand prize for the next Lotto Max draw on Mar. 17 will be approximately $10 million. The Canadian Press

A Facebook tool that helps students be more productive and keep track of assignments developed by a Victoria teen has gone viral in an unexpected place.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Ultra curling fan Nathan Woynarski is going on five hours sleep, as he has for much of the last week. He is wearing a red heavy-metal band wig, blue tights and sunglasses — indoors — and there's a studded bracelet on his wrist.

HAMILTON — Matt Luff had a hat trick and two assists as the Hamilton Bulldogs downed the Peterborough Petes 7-3 on Saturday night in Ontario Hockey League action.

TORONTO — Brett Hickey scored five goals and Tom Schreiber added four more as the Toronto Rock beat the Calgary Roughnecks 16-10 on Saturday night in National Lacrosse League action.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — An acclaimed indigenous writer is being remembered not only for his work that reflected on the legacy of the residential school system, but for his generous and loving spirit.

SUDBURY, Ont. — Police are treating the discovery of a body at a Sudbury residence as a homicide. Police say in a release that officers were called to the home Saturday morning after a report of a fire in a shed on the property.

CHURCHILL, Man. — When the sun finally broke through a blizzard that lasted three days in a northern Manitoba town, a local leader said it looked like the moon.

MONTREAL — A 26-year-old high school teacher who was a virtual political unknown defeated a former provincial cabinet minister Wednesday to win the Liberal nomination for a federal byelection in a Montreal riding.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Vicious gales ripped through Newfoundland and Labrador Saturday, tipping over cars, downing power lines and damaging homes in the fiercest storm the province has seen in more than a decade, according to Environment Canada.