Industrial Policy
Bill 3643 and the problem of 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 · Aug 4, 2026
2026
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What 42 per cent in Portland, Maine says about an FDA nomination
Aug 4, 2026
Washington stays late on jet-fuel hedges
Aug 4, 2026
Omaha cannot look away from CBP staffing at the 49th
Aug 4, 2026
Tucson cannot look away from agency-deferral leftovers
Aug 3, 2026
Langley stays late on Mexico’s balancing act
Aug 3, 2026
A partisan bargain over an Arctic radar gap
Aug 3, 2026
The Borderline
The dangerous week Washington reopens 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 · Aug 3, 2026
Markets
The drug-price transparency act hiding inside small-business hiring
The number that moved Washington on August 3, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 3, 2026
The Map
Bill 3634 and the problem of a Senate toss-up
From Spokane to the suburbs that decide Congress, a Senate toss-up is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Aug 3, 2026
The Floor
In Little Rock, the Pentagon’s wish list loads the map
Lawmakers spent August 3, 2026 arguing over a sanctions package aimed at Tehran, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Elena Voss · Aug 3, 2026
West Wing
A partisan bargain over a late-night tariff threat
On August 3, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Aug 3, 2026
Industrial Policy
Canada’s stake in data-centre water fights just got larger
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Data-centre water fights are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Aug 3, 2026
Drug Prices
Bill 3630 and the problem of 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 · Aug 3, 2026
The Strait
Jet-fuel hedges: the view from Foggy Bottom
A barrel at US$103 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Jet-fuel hedges are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 3, 2026
The Border
The dangerous week Washington freezes CBP staffing at the 49th
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 · Aug 3, 2026
The Nine
What 48 per cent in Chattanooga says about 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 · Aug 2, 2026
The Alliance
Foggy Bottom stays late on Gulf shipping insurance
American statecraft on August 2, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Aug 2, 2026
The War
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the Canada spending file
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Aug 2, 2026
