QUEBEC CITY, Canada â Inthis Thursday, July 27, 2017photo provided by Loto-Quebec, Jules Parent poseswith a mock cheque afterwinning a million Canadiandollars playing the lottery inQuebec City. For the secondtime in nine years, the69-year-old Quebec retiree haswon a million Canadian dollarsplaying the lottery. (Photo: Ap)
July 30, 2017
Lottery luck strikes twice for Quebec man
QUEBEC CITY, Canada (AP) — There are lucky men, and then there’s Jules Parent.
For the second time in nine years, the 69-year-old Quebec retiree has won a million Canadian dollars playing the lottery.
Parent muses, “Was I born under a good star?”
He showed up at lottery offices to pick up a cheque for CDN$1,222,069 after winning the jackpot from an online play worth CDN$3.20. Loto-Quebec places the odds of such a bet at about one in 23 million.
Parent also won CDN$1 million back in 2008.
He said Thursday that gambling is one of his favourite pastimes along with walking, hunting and fishing, and he intends to keep playing. He also plans to build a new home.
In Parent’s words: “It won’t be a castle, but it will be in the modern style.”
