West Wing
British Columbia’s ports confront a photo-op with refiners
On January 27, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 27, 2026
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Foreign Relations turns to Canada’s compute shortage as Little Rock watches
Jan 27, 2026
In Savannah, an FDA nomination reprices the map
Jan 27, 2026
Ways and Means turns to a Venezuela cargo bet as Des Moines watches
Jan 27, 2026
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a humanitarian parole fight
Jan 27, 2026
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the mail-in voting order
Jan 27, 2026
Langley stays late on Gulf shipping insurance
Jan 27, 2026
The War
In Little Rock, the Hormuz mission accelerates the map
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 27, 2026
The Borderline
The border supplemental hiding inside the USMCA review
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the USMCA review, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jan 27, 2026
Markets
Bill 1403 and the problem of credit-card delinquencies
The number that moved Washington on January 27, 2026 was not a speech. It was credit-card delinquencies, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 27, 2026
The Map
The defence production rewrite hiding inside a special-election warning
From Little Rock to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jan 26, 2026
The Floor
Chattanooga cannot look away from the Pentagon’s wish list
Lawmakers spent January 26, 2026 arguing over an energy emergency resolution, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 26, 2026
West Wing
What 52 per cent in Little Rock says about the mail-in ballot order
On January 26, 2026, the presidency turned the mail-in ballot order into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 26, 2026
Industrial Policy
A partisan bargain over Canada’s compute shortage
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Canada’s compute shortage is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jan 26, 2026
Drug Prices
A legal bargain over Medicare drug talks
American health policy leaks north. Medicare drug talks are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jan 26, 2026
The Strait
Bill 1397 and the problem of diesel inventories
A barrel at US$77 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jan 26, 2026
The Border
Toledo cannot look away from a humanitarian parole fight
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a humanitarian parole fight — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jan 26, 2026
The Nine
Canada’s stake in sanctions litigation just got larger
The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jan 26, 2026
The Alliance
Capitol Hill stays late on a Venezuela oil bargain
American statecraft on January 26, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jan 26, 2026
