The Alliance
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront Mexico’s balancing act
American statecraft on August 18, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Aug 18, 2026
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Canada’s stake in the tanker war just got larger
Aug 17, 2026
A continental bargain over the softwood file
Aug 17, 2026
Canada’s stake in small-business hiring just got larger
Aug 17, 2026
Canada’s stake in the House battleground just got larger
Aug 17, 2026
Bill 3801 and the problem of a USMCA enforcement hammer
Aug 17, 2026
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a West Wing shake-up
Aug 17, 2026
Industrial Policy
Data-centre water fights: the view from Capitol Hill
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 17, 2026
Drug Prices
GLP-1 coverage fights: the view from the West Wing
American health policy leaks north. GLP-1 coverage fights are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 17, 2026
The Strait
In Chattanooga, Gulf Coast refining floods the map
A barrel at US$105 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 17, 2026
The Border
Langley 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 · Aug 17, 2026
The Nine
The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside sanctions litigation
The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Aug 17, 2026
The Alliance
What 51 per cent in Savannah says about Gulf shipping insurance
American statecraft on August 17, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Aug 17, 2026
The War
What 45 per cent in Savannah says about a munitions shortage
Inside the building that still runs American war, a munitions shortage is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Aug 16, 2026
The Borderline
The expensive week Washington tests a dairy flare-up
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — a dairy flare-up, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Aug 16, 2026
Markets
What 44 per cent in Little Rock says about a hot payrolls print
The number that moved Washington on August 16, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 16, 2026
The Map
What 48 per cent in Anchorage says about the generic ballot
From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, the generic ballot is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Aug 16, 2026
The Floor
Bill 3789 and the problem of the Pentagon’s wish list
Lawmakers spent August 16, 2026 arguing over a mail-in voting statute, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Aug 16, 2026
West Wing
In Boise, the Iran endgame tests the map
On August 16, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Aug 16, 2026
