There were two winning tickets for the $16 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw. One was sold in Ontario, the other in the Prairies, and each is worth just over $7.9 million. The draw's guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario.

A Canadian mining firm says it has unearthed the largest diamond ever found in North America. Dominion Diamond Mines says the 552-carat yellow diamond was found at its Diavik mine in the Northwest Territories in October. It says the stone "far surpasses" the previous record-holder, known as the Diavik Foxfire, which was found at the same mine in 2015.

A Winnipeg restaurant chain that's faced recent allegations of harassment has dismissed another high-level employee. Stella's Cafe and Bakery has announced that regional manager Brad Burrows has been released from the chain, after it said earlier this month that vice-president of operations Grant Anderson had been let go. Burrows and Anderson were both placed on indefinite leave Nov. 12 pending a probe into hundreds of complaints against the chain that had been reported online.

It appears likely that Yves-Francois Blanchet, a former Parti Quebecois cabinet minister, will become the next leader of the Bloc Quebecois. A well-known political commentator on Radio-Canada in recent years, Blanchet was first elected provincially in 2008 and served as environment minister in Pauline Marois' short-lived minority PQ government between 2012 and 2014. Blanchet told reporters he is ready to work with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the benefit of Quebec.

Seven years after it was created, Quebec's anti-corruption unit is having difficulty recruiting members and filling a number of positions. Frederick Gaudreau, the interim head of the agency known by its French acronym, UPAC, admits unflattering coverage in the media hasn't helped. "Yes, it's a reason, I don't want to deny it," Gaudreau said at a recent news conference during the presentation of the unit's annual report.