More than a third of Canadians say country belongs to Indigenous people: poll

OTTAWA — With its next budget just a couple of weeks away, the Liberal government has received a lousy report card from a leading think tank for poor fiscal accountability. In a report to be released Thursday, the federal government received a “D” grade in fiscal accountability from the C.D. Howe Institute because Ottawa lost hefty marks for lateness and a lack of transparency. The government’s lateness is a result of not yet producing a budget for this fiscal year, even though the year is already about half over. Its opaqueness includes burying “key numbers hundreds of pages deep...