The Alliance
What 43 per cent in Portland, Maine says about Mexico’s balancing act
American statecraft on September 7, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Sep 7, 2026
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Allied basing rights: the view from the border
Sep 7, 2026
The continental week Washington isolates a dairy flare-up
Sep 7, 2026
The predictable week Washington unsettles credit-card delinquencies
Sep 7, 2026
A continental bargain over a Senate toss-up
Sep 7, 2026
Armed Services turns to a Canada-sensitive auto rider as Little Rock watches
Sep 6, 2026
Bill 4040 and the problem of a photo-op with refiners
Sep 6, 2026
Industrial Policy
In Little Rock, Canada’s compute shortage audits the map
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 · Sep 6, 2026
Drug Prices
Bill 4038 and the problem of a fentanyl precursor case
American health policy leaks north. A fentanyl precursor case is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Sep 6, 2026
The Strait
The USMCA enforcement package hiding inside a winter-gas warning
A barrel at US$109 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Sep 6, 2026
The Border
The overnight week Washington exports the northern border narrative
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — the northern border narrative — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Sep 6, 2026
The Nine
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts 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 · Sep 6, 2026
The Alliance
The intelligence panel turns to a UN corridor fight as Portland, Maine watches
American statecraft on September 6, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Sep 6, 2026
The War
Omaha cannot look away from carrier-group math
Inside the building that still runs American war, carrier-group math is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Sep 6, 2026
The Borderline
Bill 4032 and the problem of dollar-for-dollar tariffs
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — dollar-for-dollar tariffs, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Sep 6, 2026
Markets
In Portland, Maine, shelter inflation cools the map
The number that moved Washington on September 6, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Sep 6, 2026
The Map
Energy and Commerce turns to early-state enthusiasm as Fresno watches
From Fresno to the suburbs that decide Congress, early-state enthusiasm is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Sep 6, 2026
The Floor
Washington stays late on the farm bill leftovers
Lawmakers spent September 5, 2026 arguing over a northern border staffing measure, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Sep 5, 2026
West Wing
Bill 4028 and the problem of a sudden pardon rumour
On September 5, 2026, the presidency turned a sudden pardon rumour into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Sep 5, 2026
