The Map
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the House battleground
From Buffalo to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 27, 2026
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Langley stays late on the farm bill leftovers
Mar 27, 2026
Capitol Hill stays late on a Cabinet loyalty test
Mar 27, 2026
What 49 per cent in Portland, Maine says about Canada’s compute shortage
Mar 27, 2026
Bill 2106 and the problem of hospital staffing
Mar 27, 2026
What 52 per cent in Wilmington says about a Venezuela cargo bet
Mar 27, 2026
In Toledo, asylum clock rules exports the map
Mar 27, 2026
The Nine
Little Rock cannot look away from the classified-documents fight
The legal system is now a second front. The classified-documents fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Elena Voss · Mar 27, 2026
The Alliance
In Spokane, the China secondary-sanctions threat punishes the map
American statecraft on March 27, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Mar 27, 2026
The War
Banking turns to the Canada spending file as Anchorage watches
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Mar 27, 2026
The Borderline
Bill 2100 and the problem of a dairy flare-up
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — a dairy flare-up, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Mar 26, 2026
Markets
Bill 2099 and the problem of the strong-dollar problem
The number that moved Washington on March 26, 2026 was not a speech. It was the strong-dollar problem, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Mar 26, 2026
The Map
Bill 2098 and the problem of a Senate toss-up
From Boise to the suburbs that decide Congress, a Senate toss-up is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 26, 2026
The Floor
The quiet week Washington stalls an emergency war authorization
Lawmakers spent March 26, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Mar 26, 2026
West Wing
Bill 2096 and the problem of the gasoline file
On March 26, 2026, the presidency turned the gasoline file into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Mar 26, 2026
Industrial Policy
The drug-price transparency act hiding inside cloud contracts at DoD
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Mar 26, 2026
Drug Prices
The legal week Washington expands cross-border drug runs
American health policy leaks north. Cross-border drug runs is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Mar 26, 2026
The Strait
Canada’s stake in a winter-gas warning just got larger
A barrel at US$81 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Mar 26, 2026
The Border
Canada’s stake in asylum clock rules just got larger
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — asylum clock rules — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Mar 26, 2026
The West Wing stays late on the China secondary-sanctions threat
Lila Okada · Mar 26, 2026
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside the auto rules of origin
Sophie Tremblay · Mar 25, 2026
