{"id":822472,"date":"2026-07-24T06:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822472\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:11:13","slug":"brampton-couple-wins-70m-lotto-max-jackpot-with-mothers-day-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822472\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton couple wins $70M Lotto Max jackpot with Mother\u2019s Day gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Brampton couple is celebrating a $70-million Lotto Max<\/a> win after a Mother’s Day gift turned into a jackpot.<\/p>\n

Audrey and Wills W. won the May 8 draw with a Quick Pick ticket Wills bought for his wife, according to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.<\/p>\n

Audrey said she discovered the win after checking the ticket on the OLG<\/a> app.<\/p>\n

“I saw the winning amount on the screen, turned to Wills and said, ‘Look at this \u2026 is this $70?'” she said. “He glanced at it and said, ‘No\u2026 look again because there are so many more zeros.'”<\/p>\n

Audrey said she double-checked the ticket before realizing they had won $70 million.<\/p>\n

“That’s when I started jumping on the bed in excitement and then fell to my knees overcome with joy,” she said.<\/p>\n

The couple’s daughter had earlier heard that a winning ticket had been sold in Brampton and was convinced they were the winners.<\/p>\n

“When we finally told her the news of the win, she smiled and said, ‘I knew it,'” Audrey said.<\/p>\n

The recently retired couple came to Canada from Jamaica several decades ago and said they plan to take their time before making major decisions.<\/p>\n

“We came to Canada with nothing. We worked hard, learned to save and never lived beyond our means,” Audrey said.<\/p>\n

The couple said they hope to help family and friends, travel and spend more time in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Audrey also wants to build a home in Jamaica and renovate the kitchen in their Brampton home, while Wills hopes to buy and possibly restore vintage cars.<\/p>\n

“Most importantly, we can live our lives on our terms,” Audrey said.<\/p>\n

The winning ticket was bought at the Canco One Stop Gas Station on Steeles Avenue in Brampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brampton couple is celebrating a $70-million Lotto Max win after a Mother’s Day gift turned into a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48,287227],"class_list":["post-822472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-wills-w"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}