Markets
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on May 17, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 17, 2026
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Bill 2710 and the problem of the suburban-women vote
May 17, 2026
Toledo cannot look away from the Pentagon’s wish list
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The midterm message: the view from K Street
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An unfinished bargain over an election-deepfake statute
May 17, 2026
In Allentown, hospital staffing shortages the map
May 17, 2026
An overnight bargain over the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
May 17, 2026
The Border
Foreign Relations turns to asylum clock rules as Savannah watches
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — asylum clock rules — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · May 16, 2026
The Nine
Bill 2703 and the problem of an emergency war-powers case
The legal system is now a second front. An emergency war-powers case is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · May 16, 2026
The Alliance
Canada’s stake in the Five Eyes tempo just got larger
American statecraft on May 16, 2026 treated the Five Eyes tempo as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · May 16, 2026
The War
Washington stays late on 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 · May 16, 2026
The Borderline
Cross-border data rules: the view from Foggy Bottom
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — cross-border data rules, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · May 16, 2026
Markets
The continental week Washington steadies shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on May 16, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 16, 2026
The Map
The continental week Washington narrows mail-ballot rules
From Green Bay to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Elena Voss · May 16, 2026
The Floor
Bill 2697 and the problem of an emergency war authorization
Lawmakers spent May 16, 2026 arguing over a sanctions package aimed at Tehran, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · May 16, 2026
West Wing
Canada’s stake in a late-night tariff threat just got larger
On May 16, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · May 16, 2026
Industrial Policy
Washington stays late on 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 16, 2026
Drug Prices
K Street stays late on GLP-1 coverage fights
American health policy leaks north. GLP-1 coverage fights are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · May 16, 2026
The Strait
The overnight week Washington empties the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
A barrel at US$89 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · May 16, 2026
