The Strait
A Venezuela cargo bet: the view from Foggy Bottom
A barrel at US$87 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 30, 2026
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The northern border stays late on asylum clock rules
Apr 30, 2026
The defence production rewrite hiding inside the classified-documents fight
Apr 30, 2026
Omaha cannot look away from European energy nerves
Apr 30, 2026
In Spokane, NORAD modernization widens the map
Apr 30, 2026
In Portland, Maine, the USMCA review tests the map
Apr 30, 2026
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront a hot payrolls print
Apr 30, 2026
The Map
A Senate toss-up: the view from K Street
From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, a Senate toss-up is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Apr 30, 2026
The Floor
Chattanooga cannot look away from the farm bill leftovers
Lawmakers spent April 30, 2026 arguing over a stopgap spending bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Apr 30, 2026
West Wing
An unfinished bargain over a West Wing shake-up
On April 30, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Apr 30, 2026
Industrial Policy
The border supplemental hiding inside an election-deepfake statute
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. An election-deepfake statute is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Apr 29, 2026
Drug Prices
Bill 2502 and the problem of 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 · Apr 29, 2026
The Strait
Alberta’s oil patch confronts the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
A barrel at US$87 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 29, 2026
The Border
The an AI liability bill hiding inside interior enforcement
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Apr 29, 2026
The Nine
Savannah cannot look away from a Missouri map fight
The legal system is now a second front. A Missouri map fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Apr 29, 2026
The Alliance
A Venezuela oil bargain: the view from the border
American statecraft on April 29, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Apr 29, 2026
The War
A legal bargain over allied basing rights
Inside the building that still runs American war, allied basing rights is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Apr 29, 2026
The Borderline
Manchester cannot look away from 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 · Apr 29, 2026
Markets
A hot payrolls print: the view from Capitol Hill
The number that moved Washington on April 29, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Apr 29, 2026
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the mail-in ballot order
James Whitfield · Apr 29, 2026
The dangerous week Washington regulates platform liability
David Chen · Apr 29, 2026
