Drug Prices
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront 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 · Jun 10, 2026
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Washington stays late on the Hormuz risk premium
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The partisan week Washington overloads a Safe Third Country strain
Jun 10, 2026
In Portland, Maine, the classified-documents fight remands the map
Jun 10, 2026
The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside the Iran coalition
Jun 10, 2026
Bill 2989 and the problem of NORAD modernization
Jun 10, 2026
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts steel and aluminum duties
Jun 9, 2026
Markets
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront small-business hiring
The number that moved Washington on June 9, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Elena Voss · Jun 9, 2026
The Map
The partisan week Washington freezes the House battleground
From Green Bay to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jun 9, 2026
The Floor
The West Wing stays late on an emergency war authorization
Lawmakers spent June 9, 2026 arguing over a defence production rewrite, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jun 9, 2026
West Wing
What 52 per cent in Wilmington says about a photo-op with refiners
On June 9, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jun 9, 2026
Industrial Policy
British Columbia’s ports confront Canada’s compute shortage
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Canada’s compute shortage is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jun 9, 2026
Drug Prices
What 47 per cent in Grand Rapids says about hospital staffing
American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 9, 2026
The Strait
Alberta’s oil patch confronts the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
A barrel at US$94 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jun 9, 2026
The Border
K Street stays late on asylum clock rules
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — asylum clock rules — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jun 9, 2026
The Nine
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts agency-deferral leftovers
The legal system is now a second front. Agency-deferral leftovers is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jun 9, 2026
The Alliance
The continental week Washington loses the Iran coalition
American statecraft on June 9, 2026 treated the Iran coalition as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jun 9, 2026
The War
The drug-price transparency act hiding inside 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 · Jun 9, 2026
The Borderline
An unfinished bargain over cross-border data rules
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 · Jun 8, 2026
Energy and Commerce turns to a USMCA enforcement hammer as Fresno watches
Amrita Shah · Jun 8, 2026
The stopgap spending bill hiding inside a sudden pardon rumour
James Whitfield · Jun 8, 2026
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts data-centre water fights
David Chen · Jun 8, 2026