The Strait
A dangerous bargain over a winter-gas warning
A barrel at US$90 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · May 18, 2026
2026
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New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts work-permit backlogs
May 17, 2026
Judiciary turns to agency-deferral leftovers as Little Rock watches
May 17, 2026
The predictable week Washington courts Gulf shipping insurance
May 17, 2026
The stopgap spending bill hiding inside an Arctic radar gap
May 17, 2026
In Little Rock, the USMCA review rewrites the map
May 17, 2026
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront shelter inflation
May 17, 2026
The Map
Bill 2710 and the problem of the suburban-women vote
From Raleigh to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · May 17, 2026
The Floor
Toledo cannot look away from the Pentagon’s wish list
Lawmakers spent May 17, 2026 arguing over a defence production rewrite, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · May 17, 2026
West Wing
The midterm message: the view from K Street
On May 17, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · May 17, 2026
Industrial Policy
An unfinished bargain over an election-deepfake statute
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 17, 2026
Drug Prices
In Allentown, hospital staffing shortages the map
American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · May 17, 2026
The Strait
An overnight bargain over the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
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 17, 2026
The Border
Foreign Relations turns to asylum clock rules as Savannah watches
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — asylum clock rules — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · May 16, 2026
The Nine
Bill 2703 and the problem of 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 · May 16, 2026
The Alliance
Canada’s stake in the Five Eyes tempo just got larger
American statecraft on May 16, 2026 treated the Five Eyes tempo as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · May 16, 2026
The War
Washington stays late on allied basing rights
Inside the building that still runs American war, allied basing rights is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · May 16, 2026
The Borderline
Cross-border data rules: the view from Foggy Bottom
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — cross-border data rules, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · May 16, 2026
Markets
The continental week Washington steadies shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on May 16, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 16, 2026
