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 ...

Hopes for a quick start to a state lottery ran into a skeptical governor- elect Bob Martinez, who wonders whether Florida should be in the business of promoting gambling. Lottery proponents, though, ...

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 ...