Markets
Canada’s stake in a hot payrolls print just got larger
The number that moved Washington on May 5, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 5, 2026
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K Street stays late on the ground game in Pennsylvania
May 5, 2026
The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside the December funding patch
May 5, 2026
The northern border staffing measure hiding inside the mail-in ballot order
May 5, 2026
Armed Services turns to the AI safety rulebook as Raleigh watches
May 5, 2026
Mental-health funding: the view from the border
May 4, 2026
Savannah cannot look away from jet-fuel hedges
May 4, 2026
The Border
Judiciary turns to work-permit backlogs as Raleigh watches
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — work-permit backlogs — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · May 4, 2026
The Nine
Langley stays late on 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.
Claire Fontaine · May 4, 2026
The Alliance
A last-minute bargain over the China secondary-sanctions threat
American statecraft on May 4, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · May 4, 2026
The War
Homeland Security turns to allied basing rights as Des Moines watches
Inside the building that still runs American war, allied basing rights is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · May 4, 2026
The Borderline
Banking turns to dollar-for-dollar tariffs as Raleigh watches
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — dollar-for-dollar tariffs, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · May 4, 2026
Markets
Canada’s stake in a factory-orders stall just got larger
The number that moved Washington on May 4, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 4, 2026
The Map
An unfinished bargain over the suburban-women vote
From Manchester to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · May 4, 2026
The Floor
Bill 2553 and the problem of the December funding patch
Lawmakers spent May 4, 2026 arguing over an energy emergency resolution, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · May 4, 2026
West Wing
The unfinished week Washington doubles down on the Iran endgame
On May 4, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · May 4, 2026
Industrial Policy
The an AI liability bill hiding inside platform liability
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · May 4, 2026
Drug Prices
Canada’s stake in Medicare drug talks just got larger
American health policy leaks north. Medicare drug talks are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · May 3, 2026
The Strait
Canada’s stake in the Hormuz risk premium just got larger
A barrel at US$87 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · May 3, 2026
