Canada was complicit in the torture of innocent Afghan detainees and senior military and government officials tried to cover up reports of alleged abuse, a top diplomat told a parliamentary committee today.
Thousands of grateful Canadians gathered at the National War Memorial and spilled out into surrounding streets today to pay tribute to the nation's war dead.
Voters in the northeastern state of Maine repealed a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the gay rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in the corner of the country most supportive of gay marriage.
