The War
The Canada spending file: the view from K Street
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Aug 13, 2026
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What 48 per cent in Buffalo says about the USMCA review
Aug 13, 2026
A partisan bargain over a factory-orders stall
Aug 13, 2026
Ontario’s auto belt confronts the ground game in Pennsylvania
Aug 13, 2026
Canada’s stake in the Pentagon’s wish list just got larger
Aug 13, 2026
Boise cannot look away from the Iran endgame
Aug 13, 2026
The expensive week Washington regulates a chip-export tightening
Aug 13, 2026
The Fed
Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Regions Bank
Maclean’s Washington Bureau on the latest from the capital: Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Regions Bank.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 13, 2026
Drug Prices
Canada’s stake in GLP-1 coverage fights just got larger
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 13, 2026
The Strait
Ways and Means turns to Gulf Coast refining as Anchorage watches
A barrel at US$105 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 13, 2026
The Border
What 50 per cent in Green Bay says about student-visa friction
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — student-visa friction — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 13, 2026
The Nine
Foggy Bottom stays late on sanctions litigation
The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Aug 13, 2026
The Alliance
In Portland, Maine, the China secondary-sanctions threat improvises the map
American statecraft on August 13, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Aug 13, 2026
The War
Canada’s stake in a munitions shortage just got larger
Inside the building that still runs American war, a munitions shortage is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Aug 12, 2026
The Borderline
Ontario’s auto belt confronts 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 · Aug 12, 2026
Markets
A continental bargain over the strong-dollar problem
The number that moved Washington on August 12, 2026 was not a speech. It was the strong-dollar problem, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 12, 2026
The Map
A transactional bargain over early-state enthusiasm
From Little Rock to the suburbs that decide Congress, early-state enthusiasm is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Aug 12, 2026
The Floor
Ways and Means turns to a USMCA enforcement hammer as Savannah watches
Lawmakers spent August 12, 2026 arguing over an AI liability bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Aug 12, 2026
West Wing
Alberta’s oil patch confronts a West Wing shake-up
On August 12, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Aug 12, 2026
