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Canadian snow crab harvester finds winning CAD 64m lottery ticket just in time

Merel Chiasson walked into the Atlantic Lottery head office just 19 days before his winning ticket was set to expire and after it sat on his bedroom dresser for 347 days

By Undercurrent News | April 3, 2024 13:24 BST
Image is still from video on CBC. Jackpot winner Merel Chiasson, a long-time snow crab harvester, is second from left.
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Merel Chiasson, a 40-year snow crab harvester from the town of Bas-Caraquet, in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, found his winning CAD 64 million ($47.2m) Atlantic Lottery ticket just in time, the CBC reports. [...]

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