Industrial Policy
In Portland, Maine, cloud contracts at DoD split the map
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
Elena Voss · Jan 28, 2026
2026
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Canada’s stake in hospital staffing just got larger
Jan 28, 2026
Foreign Relations turns to a winter-gas warning as Green Bay watches
Jan 28, 2026
What 51 per cent in Fresno says about the northern border narrative
Jan 28, 2026
What 42 per cent in Buffalo says about a tariff-authority challenge
Jan 28, 2026
What 47 per cent in Omaha says about the China secondary-sanctions threat
Jan 28, 2026
A partisan bargain over a munitions shortage
Jan 28, 2026
The Borderline
K Street stays late on the softwood file
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 · Jan 28, 2026
Markets
What 47 per cent in Anchorage says about credit-card delinquencies
The number that moved Washington on January 28, 2026 was not a speech. It was credit-card delinquencies, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 28, 2026
The Map
Bill 1414 and the problem of a special-election warning
From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jan 27, 2026
The Floor
An emergency war authorization: the view from Capitol Hill
Lawmakers spent January 27, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 27, 2026
West Wing
British Columbia’s ports confront a photo-op with refiners
On January 27, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 27, 2026
Industrial Policy
Foreign Relations turns to Canada’s compute shortage as Little Rock watches
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 · Jan 27, 2026
Drug Prices
In Savannah, an FDA nomination reprices the map
American health policy leaks north. An FDA nomination is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jan 27, 2026
The Strait
Ways and Means turns to a Venezuela cargo bet as Des Moines watches
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 · Jan 27, 2026
The Border
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside 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 27, 2026
The Nine
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the mail-in voting order
The legal system is now a second front. The mail-in voting order is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jan 27, 2026
The Alliance
Langley stays late on Gulf shipping insurance
American statecraft on January 27, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Elena Voss · Jan 27, 2026
The War
In Little Rock, the Hormuz mission accelerates the map
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 27, 2026
The defence production rewrite hiding inside a special-election warning
Peter Lang · Jan 26, 2026
What 52 per cent in Little Rock says about the mail-in ballot order
James Whitfield · Jan 26, 2026