In stark contrast to the results of last Tuesday's vote where 11 states in the US passed propositions that rejected legal marriage between GLBT couples, the courts in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has ruled that existing marriage laws discriminate against gay couples and are unconstitutional. Saskatchewan, one of the provinces located on the Canadian Prairie and usually considered to be more socially conservative than its neighbors, now has joined 5 other provinces Quebec, BC, Ontario, Manitoba and Nova Scotia) and one territory (The Yukon) with this decision.
It is also expected that at some point next year, a new federal law will legalize such marriages throughout all of Canada. Once again, the US lags behind.