The Strait
Savannah cannot look away from the Hormuz risk premium
A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Mar 6, 2026
2026
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The intelligence panel turns to interior enforcement as Portland, Maine watches
Mar 5, 2026
Ontario’s auto belt confronts sanctions litigation
Mar 5, 2026
Grand Rapids cannot look away from a UN corridor fight
Mar 5, 2026
Langley stays late on carrier-group math
Mar 5, 2026
A partisan bargain over a dairy flare-up
Mar 5, 2026
Bill 1847 and the problem of small-business hiring
Mar 5, 2026
The Map
An unfinished bargain over the House battleground
From Des Moines to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 5, 2026
The Floor
Washington stays late on an emergency war authorization
Lawmakers spent March 5, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Mar 5, 2026
West Wing
An unfinished bargain over a West Wing shake-up
On March 5, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Mar 5, 2026
Industrial Policy
The stopgap spending bill hiding inside cloud contracts at DoD
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Mar 5, 2026
Drug Prices
The expensive week Washington expands 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 · Mar 5, 2026
The Strait
What 43 per cent in Tucson says about jet-fuel hedges
A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Jet-fuel hedges are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Mar 5, 2026
The Border
A continental bargain over 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.
Nadia Rahman · Mar 4, 2026
The Nine
What 38 per cent in Manchester says about the classified-documents fight
The legal system is now a second front. The classified-documents fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Mar 4, 2026
The Alliance
The ugly week Washington abandons the China secondary-sanctions threat
American statecraft on March 4, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Mar 4, 2026
The War
An Arctic radar gap: the view from Foggy Bottom
Inside the building that still runs American war, an Arctic radar gap is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Mar 4, 2026
The Borderline
A quiet bargain over the embassy channel
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the embassy channel, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Mar 4, 2026
Markets
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront a factory-orders stall
The number that moved Washington on March 4, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Mar 4, 2026
