The Strait
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront Canadian heavy crude
A barrel at US$90 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · May 20, 2026
2026
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The mail-in voting statute hiding inside interior enforcement
May 20, 2026
The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside a birthright petition
May 19, 2026
Bill 2738 and the problem of a UN corridor fight
May 19, 2026
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a munitions shortage
May 19, 2026
Ways and Means turns to steel and aluminum duties as Anchorage watches
May 19, 2026
Bill 2735 and the problem of a hot payrolls print
May 19, 2026
The Map
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the ground game in Pennsylvania
From Sioux Falls to the suburbs that decide Congress, the ground game in Pennsylvania is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · May 19, 2026
The Floor
In Boise, the debt-limit shadow play buries the map
Lawmakers spent May 19, 2026 arguing over a border supplemental, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · May 19, 2026
West Wing
The dangerous week Washington sidelines a Cabinet loyalty test
On May 19, 2026, the presidency turned a Cabinet loyalty test into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
Elena Voss · May 19, 2026
Industrial Policy
Ontario’s auto belt confronts 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 · May 19, 2026
Drug Prices
A transactional bargain over an FDA nomination
American health policy leaks north. An FDA nomination is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · May 19, 2026
The Strait
Energy and Commerce turns to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as Little Rock watches
A barrel at US$90 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · May 19, 2026
The Border
Bill 2728 and the problem of the northern border narrative
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — the northern border narrative — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · May 19, 2026
The Nine
Energy and Commerce turns to agency-deferral leftovers as Sioux Falls watches
The legal system is now a second front. Agency-deferral leftovers is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · May 18, 2026
The Alliance
In Fresno, a UN corridor fight underwrites the map
American statecraft on May 18, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · May 18, 2026
The War
In Toledo, the tanker war shortens 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 18, 2026
The Borderline
A dairy flare-up: the view from Langley
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 18, 2026
Markets
A last-minute bargain over credit-card delinquencies
The number that moved Washington on May 18, 2026 was not a speech. It was credit-card delinquencies, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 18, 2026
Energy and Commerce turns to the House battleground as Des Moines watches
Peter Lang · May 18, 2026
What 39 per cent in Wilmington says about a late-night tariff threat
James Whitfield · May 18, 2026
What 49 per cent in Savannah says about cloud contracts at DoD
David Chen · May 18, 2026
