The Border
Buffalo cannot look away from 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.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 6, 2026
2026
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An expensive bargain over a birthright petition
Aug 6, 2026
In Des Moines, a Venezuela oil bargain underwrites the map
Aug 5, 2026
British Columbia’s ports confront NORAD modernization
Aug 5, 2026
A partisan bargain over the auto rules of origin
Aug 5, 2026
What 43 per cent in Green Bay says about a hot payrolls print
Aug 5, 2026
Fresno cannot look away from the ground game in Pennsylvania
Aug 5, 2026
The Floor
An unfinished bargain over a USMCA enforcement hammer
Lawmakers spent August 5, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Aug 5, 2026
West Wing
Bill 3656 and the problem of the Canadian foil
On August 5, 2026, the presidency turned Canada into a foil in a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Aug 5, 2026
Industrial Policy
Capitol Hill stays late on the TikTok residual
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. The TikTok residual is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Aug 5, 2026
Drug Prices
A transactional bargain over Medicare drug talks
American health policy leaks north. Medicare drug talks are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 5, 2026
The Strait
The partisan week Washington unlocks Gulf Coast refining
A barrel at US$103 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 5, 2026
The Border
The predictable week Washington freezes interior enforcement
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 5, 2026
The Nine
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront 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 · Aug 4, 2026
The Alliance
The partisan week Washington underwrites the Iran coalition
American statecraft on August 4, 2026 treated the Iran coalition as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Elena Voss · Aug 4, 2026
The War
Bill 3649 and the problem of 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 · Aug 4, 2026
The Borderline
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront the softwood file
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the softwood file, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Aug 4, 2026
Markets
Canada’s stake in a factory-orders stall just got larger
The number that moved Washington on August 4, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 4, 2026
The Fed
Federal Reserve Board announces approval of the application by Coastal Bend Bancshares, Inc.
Maclean’s Washington Bureau on the latest from the capital: Federal Reserve Board announces approval of the application by Coastal Bend Bancshares, Inc.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 4, 2026
Federal Reserve Board announces approval of the application by FS Bancorp, Inc.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 4, 2026
