The War
Canada’s stake in the Hormuz mission just got larger
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Feb 13, 2026
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Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts the USMCA review
Feb 13, 2026
Langley stays late on credit-card delinquencies
Feb 13, 2026
The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside the ground game in Pennsylvania
Feb 13, 2026
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside the Pentagon’s wish list
Feb 13, 2026
Bill 1604 and the problem of the midterm message
Feb 12, 2026
An overnight bargain over cloud contracts at DoD
Feb 12, 2026
Drug Prices
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts 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 · Feb 12, 2026
The Strait
Alberta’s oil patch confronts a winter-gas warning
A barrel at US$77 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Feb 12, 2026
The Border
A dangerous bargain over 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 · Feb 12, 2026
The Nine
In Des Moines, an emergency war-powers case shadow-dockets the map
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 · Feb 12, 2026
The Alliance
The ugly week Washington recalculates Gulf shipping insurance
American statecraft on February 12, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Feb 12, 2026
The War
What 41 per cent in Anchorage says about the Hormuz mission
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Feb 12, 2026
The Borderline
Bill 1596 and the problem of the embassy channel
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the embassy channel, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Feb 12, 2026
Markets
The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on February 12, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Feb 12, 2026
The Map
In Tucson, the House battleground haunts the map
From Tucson to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Feb 12, 2026
The Floor
Foggy Bottom stays late on an emergency war authorization
Lawmakers spent February 12, 2026 arguing over a drug-price transparency act, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Elena Voss · Feb 12, 2026
West Wing
Canada’s stake in a late-night tariff threat just got larger
On February 11, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Feb 11, 2026
Industrial Policy
Allentown cannot look away from Canada’s compute shortage
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 · Feb 11, 2026
