The Border
In Spokane, CBP staffing at the 49th reroutes the map
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 · Jun 30, 2026
2026
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What 50 per cent in Chattanooga says about the mail-in voting order
Jun 30, 2026
A last-minute bargain over Gulf shipping insurance
Jun 30, 2026
The last-minute week Washington shortens the Hormuz mission
Jun 30, 2026
What 41 per cent in Chattanooga says about the auto rules of origin
Jun 30, 2026
Canada’s stake in credit-card delinquencies just got larger
Jun 30, 2026
A quiet bargain over a special-election warning
Jun 30, 2026
The Floor
A partisan bargain over the farm bill leftovers
Lawmakers spent June 29, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Elena Voss · Jun 29, 2026
West Wing
The expensive week Washington orders the Canadian foil
On June 29, 2026, the presidency turned Canada into a foil in a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jun 29, 2026
Industrial Policy
Foreign Relations turns to data-centre water fights as Toledo watches
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Data-centre water fights are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jun 29, 2026
Drug Prices
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a vaccine-schedule fight
American health policy leaks north. A vaccine-schedule fight is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 29, 2026
The Strait
Canada’s stake in diesel inventories just got larger
A barrel at US$97 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jun 29, 2026
The Border
Capitol Hill stays late on a Safe Third Country strain
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a Safe Third Country strain — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jun 29, 2026
The Nine
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront the classified-documents fight
The legal system is now a second front. The classified-documents fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jun 29, 2026
The Alliance
Langley stays late on Mexico’s balancing act
American statecraft on June 29, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jun 29, 2026
The War
A partisan bargain over 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 · Jun 29, 2026
The Borderline
Alberta’s oil patch 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 · Jun 29, 2026
Markets
Shelter inflation: the view from Capitol Hill
The number that moved Washington on June 29, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jun 29, 2026
The Map
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts a Senate toss-up
From Spokane to the suburbs that decide Congress, a Senate toss-up is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jun 29, 2026
The intelligence panel turns to an election-deepfake statute as Allentown watches
David Chen · Jun 28, 2026
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside an FDA nomination
Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 28, 2026
