The Strait
The quiet week Washington overpromises a winter-gas warning
A barrel at US$94 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jun 12, 2026
2026
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Ways and Means turns to interior enforcement as Chattanooga watches
Jun 12, 2026
The dangerous week Washington narrows an emergency war-powers case
Jun 12, 2026
The intelligence panel turns to the Iran coalition as Wilmington watches
Jun 12, 2026
In Tucson, the Hormuz mission overcommits the map
Jun 12, 2026
The embassy channel: the view from Foggy Bottom
Jun 12, 2026
Wilmington cannot look away from a factory-orders stall
Jun 11, 2026
The Map
In Sioux Falls, mail-ballot rules explode the map
From Sioux Falls to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jun 11, 2026
The Floor
Bill 3009 and the problem of the December funding patch
Lawmakers spent June 11, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jun 11, 2026
West Wing
The continental week Washington reshuffles a West Wing shake-up
On June 11, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jun 11, 2026
Industrial Policy
K Street stays late on a chip-export tightening
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. A chip-export tightening is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jun 11, 2026
Drug Prices
Capitol Hill stays late on mental-health funding
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 11, 2026
The Strait
Tucson cannot look away from a winter-gas warning
A barrel at US$94 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jun 11, 2026
The Border
Ontario’s auto belt confronts 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.
Elena Voss · Jun 11, 2026
The Nine
An ugly bargain over a birthright petition
The legal system is now a second front. A birthright petition is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jun 11, 2026
The Alliance
Washington stays late on the China secondary-sanctions threat
American statecraft on June 11, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jun 11, 2026
The War
The overnight week Washington widens 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 · Jun 11, 2026
The Borderline
Steel and aluminum duties: the view from K Street
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — steel and aluminum duties, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jun 11, 2026
Markets
What 45 per cent in Green Bay says about small-business hiring
The number that moved Washington on June 10, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jun 10, 2026
