Newly disclosed documents show Canada knew the United States secretly paid Pakistan $500,000 to capture Canadian citizen Abdullah Khadr in what his lawyers said Monday was another notorious example of Washington's outsourcing of torture.

Residents are still being flown out of the northern Ontario First Nation community of Attawapiskat because of the threat of flooding.

Employment rates among Canada's immigrant population improved in 2007, with an overwhelming number of jobs going to new immigrants from Asia and the Middle East, said a Statistics Canada survey released Tuesday.