2026
Every Washington Bureau dispatch from January 1 through September 11, kept on this site in full. Pick a month, or start with the latest.
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Markets
The number that moved Washington on August 19, 2026 was not a speech. It was the strong-dollar problem, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 19, 2026
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The Strait
A barrel at US$106 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 19, 2026
The Border
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a humanitarian parole fight — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Elena Voss · Aug 19, 2026
The Nine
The legal system is now a second front. Agency-deferral leftovers is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Aug 19, 2026
The Alliance
American statecraft on August 19, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Aug 19, 2026
The War
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Aug 19, 2026
The Borderline
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — a dairy flare-up, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Aug 18, 2026
Markets
The number that moved Washington on August 18, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 18, 2026
The Map
From Grand Rapids to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Aug 18, 2026
The Floor
Lawmakers spent August 18, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Aug 18, 2026
West Wing
On August 18, 2026, the presidency turned Canada into a foil in a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Aug 18, 2026
Industrial Policy
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 · Aug 18, 2026
Drug Prices
American health policy leaks north. GLP-1 coverage fights are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 18, 2026
