The War
In Toledo, the Hormuz mission strains the map
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Feb 14, 2026
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Dollar-for-dollar tariffs: the view from the West Wing
Feb 14, 2026
Canada’s stake in credit-card delinquencies just got larger
Feb 14, 2026
The intelligence panel turns to early-state enthusiasm as Buffalo watches
Feb 14, 2026
K Street stays late on the debt-limit shadow play
Feb 14, 2026
A sudden pardon rumour: the view from K Street
Feb 13, 2026
Canada’s stake in the TikTok residual just got larger
Feb 13, 2026
Drug Prices
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront hospital staffing
American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Feb 13, 2026
The Strait
Bill 1613 and the problem of the Hormuz risk premium
A barrel at US$77 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Feb 13, 2026
The Border
British Columbia’s ports confront the northern border narrative
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — the northern border narrative — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Feb 13, 2026
The Nine
What 43 per cent in Spokane says about a birthright petition
The legal system is now a second front. A birthright petition is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Feb 13, 2026
The Alliance
Bill 1610 and the problem of a Venezuela oil bargain
American statecraft on February 13, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Elena Voss · Feb 13, 2026
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
The Borderline
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts the USMCA review
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the USMCA review, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Feb 13, 2026
Markets
Langley stays late on credit-card delinquencies
The number that moved Washington on February 13, 2026 was not a speech. It was credit-card delinquencies, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Feb 13, 2026
The Map
The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside the ground game in Pennsylvania
From Buffalo 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 · Feb 13, 2026
The Floor
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside the Pentagon’s wish list
Lawmakers spent February 13, 2026 arguing over a mail-in voting statute, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Feb 13, 2026
West Wing
Bill 1604 and the problem of the midterm message
On February 12, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Feb 12, 2026
Industrial Policy
An overnight bargain over cloud contracts at DoD
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Feb 12, 2026
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts a fentanyl precursor case
Rachel Okonkwo · Feb 12, 2026
In Des Moines, an emergency war-powers case shadow-dockets the map
Claire Fontaine · Feb 12, 2026
