Drug Prices
A fentanyl precursor case: the view from the border
American health policy leaks north. A fentanyl precursor case is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 14, 2026
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The northern border staffing measure hiding inside the Hormuz risk premium
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The Hormuz mission: the view from K Street
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A transactional bargain over the softwood file
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Markets
Capitol Hill stays late on the September FOMC
The number that moved Washington on June 13, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jun 13, 2026
The Map
The border supplemental hiding inside the generic ballot
From Little Rock to the suburbs that decide Congress, the generic ballot is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jun 13, 2026
The Floor
A legal bargain over the Pentagon’s wish list
Lawmakers spent June 13, 2026 arguing over a defence production rewrite, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jun 13, 2026
West Wing
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts the gasoline file
On June 13, 2026, the presidency turned the gasoline file into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jun 13, 2026
Industrial Policy
Bill 3031 and the problem of cloud contracts at DoD
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jun 13, 2026
Drug Prices
What 47 per cent in Spokane says about a vaccine-schedule fight
American health policy leaks north. A vaccine-schedule fight is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 13, 2026
The Strait
An expensive bargain over the Hormuz risk premium
A barrel at US$94 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jun 13, 2026
The Border
Canada’s stake in CBP staffing at the 49th just got larger
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — CBP staffing at the 49th — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jun 13, 2026
The Nine
A transactional bargain over the mail-in voting order
The legal system is now a second front. The mail-in voting order is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jun 13, 2026
The Alliance
An unfinished bargain over the China secondary-sanctions threat
American statecraft on June 13, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jun 13, 2026
The War
The drug-price transparency act hiding inside 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 · Jun 13, 2026
The Borderline
Fresno cannot look away from steel and aluminum duties
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — steel and aluminum duties, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jun 12, 2026
