Markets
Canada’s stake in the gasoline shock just got larger
The number that moved Washington on February 5, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Feb 5, 2026
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Canada’s stake in a Senate toss-up just got larger
Feb 5, 2026
The intelligence panel turns to the farm bill leftovers as Little Rock watches
Feb 4, 2026
Toledo cannot look away from a Cabinet loyalty test
Feb 4, 2026
In Buffalo, the TikTok residual subsidizes the map
Feb 4, 2026
Bill 1506 and the problem of cross-border drug runs
Feb 4, 2026
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: the view from Capitol Hill
Feb 4, 2026
The Border
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a Safe Third Country strain
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a Safe Third Country strain — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Feb 4, 2026
The Nine
Ways and Means turns to sanctions litigation as Little Rock watches
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 · Feb 4, 2026
The Alliance
The expensive week Washington courts Gulf shipping insurance
American statecraft on February 4, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Feb 4, 2026
The War
Canada’s stake in an Arctic radar gap just got larger
Inside the building that still runs American war, an Arctic radar gap is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Feb 4, 2026
The Borderline
Capitol Hill stays late on 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 4, 2026
Markets
The last-minute week Washington unsettles shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on February 4, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Feb 4, 2026
The Map
The legal week Washington haunts the suburban-women vote
From Raleigh to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Feb 4, 2026
The Floor
Alberta’s oil patch confronts an emergency war authorization
Lawmakers spent February 3, 2026 arguing over a border supplemental, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Feb 3, 2026
West Wing
The intelligence panel turns to the gasoline file as Des Moines watches
On February 3, 2026, the presidency turned the gasoline file into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Feb 3, 2026
Industrial Policy
The ugly week Washington races 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 · Feb 3, 2026
Drug Prices
A transactional bargain over an FDA nomination
American health policy leaks north. An FDA nomination is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Feb 3, 2026
The Strait
Banking turns to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as Toledo watches
A barrel at US$77 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Feb 3, 2026
The northern border staffing measure hiding inside CBP staffing at the 49th
Nadia Rahman · Feb 3, 2026
Energy and Commerce turns to the Canada spending file as Manchester watches
Marcus Hale · Feb 3, 2026
The predictable week Washington frays steel and aluminum duties
Sophie Tremblay · Feb 3, 2026