Markets
The September FOMC: the view from K Street
The number that moved Washington on January 5, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Elena Voss · Jan 5, 2026
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A Senate toss-up: the view from Foggy Bottom
Jan 5, 2026
Washington stays late on the December funding patch
Jan 5, 2026
In Buffalo, a photo-op with refiners sidelines the map
Jan 5, 2026
Ontario’s auto belt confronts data-centre water fights
Jan 5, 2026
Chattanooga cannot look away from a fentanyl precursor case
Jan 5, 2026
An ugly bargain over jet-fuel hedges
Jan 5, 2026
The Border
K Street stays late on a humanitarian parole fight
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a humanitarian parole fight — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jan 5, 2026
The Nine
A partisan bargain over a Missouri map fight
The legal system is now a second front. A Missouri map fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jan 5, 2026
The Alliance
K Street stays late on a Venezuela oil bargain
American statecraft on January 4, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jan 4, 2026
The War
The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside allied basing rights
Inside the building that still runs American war, allied basing rights is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 4, 2026
The Borderline
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the auto rules of origin
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the auto rules of origin, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jan 4, 2026
Markets
Bill 1139 and the problem of small-business hiring
The number that moved Washington on January 4, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 4, 2026
The Map
In Omaha, the ground game in Pennsylvania reorders the map
From Omaha to the suburbs that decide Congress, the ground game in Pennsylvania is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jan 4, 2026
The Floor
Green Bay cannot look away from a border supplemental
Lawmakers spent January 4, 2026 arguing over a defence production rewrite, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 4, 2026
West Wing
Canada’s stake in a late-night tariff threat just got larger
On January 4, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 4, 2026
Industrial Policy
K Street stays late on an election-deepfake statute
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. An election-deepfake statute is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jan 4, 2026
Drug Prices
The continental week Washington rewrites an FDA nomination
American health policy leaks north. An FDA nomination is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Elena Voss · Jan 4, 2026
The Strait
The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside the Hormuz risk premium
A barrel at US$76 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jan 4, 2026
What 47 per cent in Anchorage says about the classified-documents fight
Claire Fontaine · Jan 4, 2026
