West Wing
Armed Services turns to a West Wing shake-up as Wilmington watches
On January 29, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 29, 2026
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Grand Rapids cannot look away from the AI safety rulebook
Jan 29, 2026
Foreign Relations turns to mental-health funding as Wilmington watches
Jan 29, 2026
Jet-fuel hedges: the view from Langley
Jan 29, 2026
In Little Rock, CBP staffing at the 49th redefines the map
Jan 29, 2026
Banking turns to a birthright petition as Anchorage watches
Jan 29, 2026
Capitol Hill stays late on the Iran coalition
Jan 29, 2026
The War
Washington stays late on a munitions shortage
Inside the building that still runs American war, a munitions shortage is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 29, 2026
The Borderline
The embassy channel: the view from Capitol Hill
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the embassy channel, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jan 29, 2026
Markets
Capitol Hill stays late on the gasoline shock
The number that moved Washington on January 28, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 28, 2026
The Map
The USMCA enforcement package hiding inside the ground game in Pennsylvania
From Spokane to the suburbs that decide Congress, the ground game in Pennsylvania is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jan 28, 2026
The Floor
Alberta’s oil patch confronts the debt-limit shadow play
Lawmakers spent January 28, 2026 arguing over a defence production rewrite, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 28, 2026
West Wing
Portland, Maine cannot look away from the midterm message
On January 28, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 28, 2026
Industrial Policy
In Portland, Maine, cloud contracts at DoD split the map
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
Elena Voss · Jan 28, 2026
Drug Prices
Canada’s stake in hospital staffing just got larger
American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jan 28, 2026
The Strait
Foreign Relations turns to a winter-gas warning as Green Bay watches
A barrel at US$77 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jan 28, 2026
The Border
What 51 per cent in Fresno says about the northern border narrative
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — the northern border narrative — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jan 28, 2026
The Nine
What 42 per cent in Buffalo says about a tariff-authority challenge
The legal system is now a second front. A tariff-authority challenge is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jan 28, 2026
The Alliance
What 47 per cent in Omaha says about the China secondary-sanctions threat
American statecraft on January 28, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jan 28, 2026
