When it comes to doling out federal money to local communities, size matters—cheque size, that is. According to the Toronto Star, Tory MPs and cabinet ministers have taken to turning up at ...

Man wins $1 on lotto scratch ticket, demands large novelty cheque — and gets one By Adam Frisk Global News Posted January 17, 2019 3:23 pm Updated January 18, 2019 4:13 am ...

The giant novelty cheque story appears to have inspired the the Liberal party's artsy side. Today at a news conference, Liberal MPs David McGuinty and Marcel Proulx announced the party is ...

The ethics commissioner concludes that the use of giant novelty cheques by unelected officials might diminish our democracy, but it isn’t against the rules. Ms. Dawson concludes that using ...

The police are searching for Juston Price of St. Catharines, who had his picture in Feb. 7 edition of The Standard holding a giant novelty cheque after winning $100,000 on a scratch ticket for an ...

If it were real, however, a cheque with a discrepancy between the two indicated amounts could be rejected, depending on a bank’s policies, or accepted with the written amount considered paramount.

Mike Lethby hasn’t disposed of the giant novelty cheque made out to The RAFT for $45,000. “It’s sitting there,” said the executive director of the St. Catharines agency that provides ...

The Region has the novelty cheque, but it will have to wait a while for the real money. The saga began on March 1 when Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority chairman Sandy Annunziata presented ...