With housing prices in and around Toronto (and Vancouver) going through the stratosphere, a local charity lottery offering houses as the grand prize is very attractive.
The Princess Margaret Hospital Cancer Foundation for years has been raising funds with a lottery offering big prizes. The grand prize has been a new house.
This year however, something’s gone up in smoke.
One of this year’s grand prizes was a house in Kleinburg, just north of Toronto.
The trouble is, the property backs onto another property where the owner has a permit from Health Canada to grow medical marijuana for personal use.
It seems the odour is just too strong.
The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Home Lottery said in a release, “the growing of a large number of plants in the house has resulted in an intrusive odour in the neighbourhood.”
The foundation said the house will be withdrawn as a prize and replaced with a cash sum of $1.3 million dollars.
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