OTTAWA—The Liberal government has unveiled another free-spending budget that doubles down on a progressive agenda with billions to boost women in the workforce, to back a feminist foreign aid agenda, and improve Indigenous services, along with record support for science and innovation. The 2018 fiscal blueprint — revealed by federal …

OTTAWA—All governments live by a clock. It typically starts ticking loudly in the third year of a majority mandate, when there is still time to put in place the structural elements of a re-election platform. The next-to-last Liberal budget of the current Parliament begins to lift the veil on the …

WASHINGTON – After a testy exchange this past week over a proposed U.S. border wall, Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled plans to visit the White House. Pena Nieto and Trump spoke Tuesday, spending a considerable amount of their nearly hourlong call on discussions of the border wall, according to …