Canada: Census 2011: Same-sex marriage triples over five years

Seven years after the federal government gave its blessing to same-sex marriage, it's clear Canada's gay and lesbian couples have been seizing the wedding day. Same-sex marriage nearly tripled between 2006 and 2011, while the number of same-sex couples jumped 42.4 per cent during the same five-year period, Statistics Canada said Wednesday as it released a fresh salvo of census data focused on the...

Metro Toronto • Sep 19, 2012