The War
The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside the Hormuz mission
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Feb 10, 2026
2026
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Foggy Bottom stays late on the auto rules of origin
Feb 10, 2026
Bill 1571 and the problem of a hot payrolls print
Feb 10, 2026
Bill 1570 and the problem of early-state enthusiasm
Feb 10, 2026
British Columbia’s ports confront a Canada-sensitive auto rider
Feb 10, 2026
Foreign Relations turns to the Iran endgame as Little Rock watches
Feb 9, 2026
The expensive week Washington audits Canada’s compute shortage
Feb 9, 2026
Drug Prices
What 40 per cent in Des Moines says about GLP-1 coverage fights
American health policy leaks north. GLP-1 coverage fights are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Feb 9, 2026
The Strait
Canada’s stake in a Venezuela cargo bet just got larger
A barrel at US$77 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Feb 9, 2026
The Border
The dangerous week Washington freezes interior enforcement
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Feb 9, 2026
The Nine
Armed Services turns to agency-deferral leftovers as Chattanooga watches
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 · Feb 9, 2026
The Alliance
The predictable week Washington improvises Gulf shipping insurance
American statecraft on February 9, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Feb 9, 2026
The War
The legal week Washington shortens an Arctic radar gap
Inside the building that still runs American war, an Arctic radar gap is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Feb 9, 2026
The Borderline
The softwood file: the view from Langley
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the softwood file, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Feb 9, 2026
Markets
K Street stays late on the gasoline shock
The number that moved Washington on February 9, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Elena Voss · Feb 9, 2026
The Map
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts a Senate toss-up
From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, a Senate toss-up is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Feb 9, 2026
The Floor
Bill 1557 and the problem of the farm bill leftovers
Lawmakers spent February 9, 2026 arguing over a farm-state biofuels carve-out, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Feb 9, 2026
West Wing
The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside a West Wing shake-up
On February 8, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Feb 8, 2026
Industrial Policy
In Wilmington, Canada’s compute shortage races the map
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 · Feb 8, 2026
The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside a tariff-authority challenge
Claire Fontaine · Feb 8, 2026
