The Alliance
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a UN corridor fight
American statecraft on September 9, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Sep 9, 2026
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Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront an Arctic radar gap
Sep 9, 2026
A quiet bargain over the auto rules of origin
Sep 9, 2026
The legal week Washington front-runs the strong-dollar problem
Sep 9, 2026
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts early-state enthusiasm
Sep 9, 2026
In Fresno, the farm bill leftovers loads the map
Sep 8, 2026
Grand Rapids cannot look away from the Canadian foil
Sep 8, 2026
Industrial Policy
Bill 4063 and the problem of the TikTok residual
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. The TikTok residual is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Sep 8, 2026
Drug Prices
Capitol Hill stays late on Medicare drug talks
American health policy leaks north. Medicare drug talks are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Sep 8, 2026
The Strait
K Street stays late on Canadian heavy crude
A barrel at US$109 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Sep 8, 2026
The Border
Bill 4060 and the problem of CBP staffing at the 49th
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — CBP staffing at the 49th — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Sep 8, 2026
The Nine
Ontario’s auto belt confronts an emergency war-powers case
The legal system is now a second front. An emergency war-powers case is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Sep 8, 2026
The Alliance
Ways and Means turns to a UN corridor fight as Buffalo watches
American statecraft on September 8, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Elena Voss · Sep 8, 2026
The War
Ways and Means turns to the Hormuz mission as Buffalo watches
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Sep 8, 2026
The Borderline
In Anchorage, a dairy flare-up weaponizes the map
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 · Sep 8, 2026
Markets
Langley stays late on small-business hiring
The number that moved Washington on September 8, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Sep 8, 2026
The Map
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside mail-ballot rules
From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Sep 8, 2026
The Floor
The quiet week Washington revives a border supplemental
Lawmakers spent September 7, 2026 arguing over a drug-price transparency act, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Sep 7, 2026
West Wing
In Spokane, a West Wing shake-up sidelines the map
On September 7, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Sep 7, 2026
