2026
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Drug Prices
American health policy leaks north. A vaccine-schedule fight is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Apr 21, 2026
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Markets
The number that moved Washington on April 21, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Apr 21, 2026
The Map
From Spokane to the suburbs that decide Congress, early-state enthusiasm is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Apr 21, 2026
The Floor
Lawmakers spent April 21, 2026 arguing over a drug-price transparency act, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Apr 21, 2026
West Wing
On April 20, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Apr 20, 2026
Industrial Policy
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 · Apr 20, 2026
Drug Prices
American health policy leaks north. An FDA nomination is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Apr 20, 2026
The Strait
A barrel at US$85 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 20, 2026
The Border
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Elena Voss · Apr 20, 2026
The Nine
The legal system is now a second front. The classified-documents fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Apr 20, 2026
The Alliance
American statecraft on April 20, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Apr 20, 2026
The War
Inside the building that still runs American war, a munitions shortage is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Apr 20, 2026
The Borderline
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — cross-border data rules, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Apr 20, 2026
