The Stateside Journal

After surviving cancer, David Serkin, a retired resident of Lethbridge, Alberta, experienced a run of luck so rare it made headlines.
Serkin won three separate lottery jackpots in just nine months, across different games, with winnings totaling about 2.5 million Canadian dollars.
His incredible streak began on August 20, 2024, when he won CA $500,000 playing Lotto Max. Just a few months later, on November 16, 2024, he struck again — this time winning CA $1 million in a Lotto 6/49 draw. Most people would stop there. He didn’t. On May 3, 2025, Serkin discovered he had won another CA $1 million playing Lotto 6/49, marking his third major prize in under a year. In total: approximately CA $2.5 million–plus in nine months — on top of an earlier lottery win years ago (reported as roughly $250,000–$283,000).
Serkin, who has played the lottery casually since 1982, said surviving cancer left him grateful, and that the money was not the only thing that mattered.

A Canadian university is offering a course called “The Science of Batman” (listed as EPHE 156) that uses the Batman character as a case study to explore how Batman’s feats could be achieved through rigorous training and mental discipline—and the physical downsides, like concussion and injuries.
The University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada has offered this pop-culture-framed science class, which examines how Batman’s feats could be explained by rigorous training and mental discipline, along with real-world downsides like concussion and injuries, through the lens of the Caped Crusader rather than teaching “superpowers” literally.