The Strait
Fresno cannot look away from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
A barrel at US$92 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · May 31, 2026
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The unfinished week Washington freezes work-permit backlogs
May 31, 2026
Banking turns to an emergency war-powers case as Omaha watches
May 31, 2026
European energy nerves: the view from the border
May 30, 2026
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts carrier-group math
May 30, 2026
The an AI liability bill hiding inside steel and aluminum duties
May 30, 2026
The drug-price transparency act hiding inside the strong-dollar problem
May 30, 2026
The Map
The ugly week Washington haunts a special-election warning
From Fresno to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · May 30, 2026
The Floor
Alberta’s oil patch confronts a USMCA enforcement hammer
Lawmakers spent May 30, 2026 arguing over a mail-in voting statute, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · May 30, 2026
West Wing
Bill 2864 and the problem of a sudden pardon rumour
On May 30, 2026, the presidency turned a sudden pardon rumour into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · May 30, 2026
Industrial Policy
Canada’s stake in an election-deepfake statute just got larger
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. An election-deepfake statute is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · May 30, 2026
Drug Prices
In Buffalo, an FDA nomination politicizes 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 · May 30, 2026
The Strait
Capitol Hill stays late on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
A barrel at US$92 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · May 30, 2026
The Border
In Green Bay, work-permit backlogs overloads the map
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — work-permit backlogs — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · May 30, 2026
The Nine
Canada’s stake in a tariff-authority challenge just got larger
The legal system is now a second front. A tariff-authority challenge is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · May 30, 2026
The Alliance
Canada’s stake in a Venezuela oil bargain just got larger
American statecraft on May 29, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · May 29, 2026
The War
In Spokane, the tanker war widens the map
Inside the building that still runs American war, the tanker war is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · May 29, 2026
The Borderline
Canada’s stake in a dairy flare-up just got larger
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 · May 29, 2026
Markets
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts the gasoline shock
The number that moved Washington on May 29, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 29, 2026
