The Strait
Grand Rapids cannot look away from Canadian heavy crude
A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Mar 10, 2026
2026
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Judiciary turns to asylum clock rules as Portland, Maine watches
Mar 9, 2026
A tariff-authority challenge: the view from the West Wing
Mar 9, 2026
What 45 per cent in Wilmington says about the China secondary-sanctions threat
Mar 9, 2026
A predictable bargain over the Hormuz mission
Mar 9, 2026
In Toledo, a dairy flare-up frays the map
Mar 9, 2026
What 47 per cent in Toledo says about small-business hiring
Mar 9, 2026
The Map
The predictable week Washington explodes the generic ballot
From Tucson to the suburbs that decide Congress, the generic ballot is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 9, 2026
The Floor
Langley stays late on the Pentagon’s wish list
Lawmakers spent March 9, 2026 arguing over a border supplemental, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Mar 9, 2026
West Wing
Bill 1892 and the problem of a sudden pardon rumour
On March 9, 2026, the presidency turned a sudden pardon rumour into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Mar 9, 2026
Industrial Policy
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront Canada’s compute shortage
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Canada’s compute shortage is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Mar 9, 2026
Drug Prices
The dangerous week Washington politicizes Medicare drug talks
American health policy leaks north. Medicare drug talks are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Mar 9, 2026
The Strait
Buffalo cannot look away from Canadian heavy crude
A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Mar 9, 2026
The Border
The defence production rewrite hiding inside CBP staffing at the 49th
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 · Mar 9, 2026
The Nine
What 50 per cent in Spokane says about a Missouri map fight
The legal system is now a second front. A Missouri map fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Mar 8, 2026
The Alliance
Buffalo cannot look away from a UN corridor fight
American statecraft on March 8, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Mar 8, 2026
The War
The West Wing stays late on NORAD modernization
Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Mar 8, 2026
The Borderline
Steel and aluminum duties: the view from the border
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 · Mar 8, 2026
Markets
A transactional bargain over small-business hiring
The number that moved Washington on March 8, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Mar 8, 2026
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront an emergency war authorization
Amrita Shah · Mar 8, 2026
The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside the gasoline file
James Whitfield · Mar 8, 2026
