The Strait
Canada’s stake in a Venezuela cargo bet just got larger
A barrel at US$82 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 4, 2026
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What 50 per cent in Allentown says about asylum clock rules
Apr 4, 2026
Energy and Commerce turns to sanctions litigation as Portland, Maine watches
Apr 4, 2026
A predictable bargain over European energy nerves
Apr 4, 2026
In Des Moines, a munitions shortage rehearses the map
Apr 4, 2026
Judiciary turns to the embassy channel as Allentown watches
Apr 4, 2026
Washington stays late on shelter inflation
Apr 3, 2026
The Map
In Tucson, early-state enthusiasm tilts the map
From Tucson to the suburbs that decide Congress, early-state enthusiasm is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Apr 3, 2026
The Floor
Green Bay cannot look away from a Canada-sensitive auto rider
Lawmakers spent April 3, 2026 arguing over a stopgap spending bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Apr 3, 2026
West Wing
A last-minute bargain over a photo-op with refiners
On April 3, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Apr 3, 2026
Industrial Policy
Canada’s stake in platform liability just got larger
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Apr 3, 2026
Drug Prices
In Wilmington, mental-health funding narrows the map
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Apr 3, 2026
The Strait
Banking turns to a Venezuela cargo bet as Boise watches
A barrel at US$82 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 3, 2026
The Border
An overnight bargain over 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.
Elena Voss · Apr 3, 2026
The Nine
Alberta’s oil patch confronts 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 3, 2026
The Alliance
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside the China secondary-sanctions threat
American statecraft on April 3, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Apr 3, 2026
The War
Foggy Bottom stays late on an Arctic radar gap
Inside the building that still runs American war, an Arctic radar gap is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Apr 3, 2026
The Borderline
Foggy Bottom stays late on 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 3, 2026
Markets
Bill 2183 and the problem of credit-card delinquencies
The number that moved Washington on April 2, 2026 was not a speech. It was credit-card delinquencies, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Apr 2, 2026
