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Canada’s ‘Random’ Immigration Lottery Uses Microsoft Excel, Which Isn’t Actually Random
Photo: Getty Last year, Canada introduced a new lottery system used to extend permanent-resident status to the parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens. The process was designed to randomly select applicants in order to make the process fairer than the old first-come, first-served system. There’s just one problem: the software used to run the lottery…