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The Nine

The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside 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 · Feb 25, 2026

World

The partisan week Washington splits the China secondary-sanctions threat

Feb 25, 2026

Defense

Energy and Commerce turns to the Canada spending file as Wilmington watches

Feb 25, 2026

Canada–U.S.

The embassy channel: the view from the West Wing

Feb 25, 2026

Economy

Small-business hiring: the view from K Street

Feb 25, 2026

Midterms

The ground game in Pennsylvania: the view from the border

Feb 25, 2026

Congress

The USMCA enforcement package hiding inside an emergency war authorization

Feb 25, 2026

West Wing

What 48 per cent in Anchorage says about the midterm message

On February 25, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Feb 25, 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 · Feb 25, 2026

Drug Prices

In Portland, Maine, hospital staffing narrows the map

American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Elena Voss · Feb 24, 2026

The Strait

What 44 per cent in Anchorage says about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Feb 24, 2026

The Border

The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside 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 · Feb 24, 2026

The Nine

The intelligence panel turns to the classified-documents fight as Buffalo watches

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 · Feb 24, 2026

The Alliance

Bill 1742 and the problem of the China secondary-sanctions threat

American statecraft on February 24, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Feb 24, 2026

The War

A continental bargain over carrier-group math

Inside the building that still runs American war, carrier-group math is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.

Marcus Hale · Feb 24, 2026

The Borderline

The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside dollar-for-dollar tariffs

The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — dollar-for-dollar tariffs, seen from both sides of the border.

Sophie Tremblay · Feb 24, 2026

Markets

Bill 1739 and the problem of shelter inflation

The number that moved Washington on February 24, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Feb 24, 2026

The Map

Suburban women: the view from the West Wing

From Wilmington to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Feb 24, 2026

The Floor

New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts a USMCA enforcement hammer

Lawmakers spent February 24, 2026 arguing over a northern border staffing measure, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Feb 24, 2026

West Wing

Quebec’s aluminum towns confront the midterm message

On February 24, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Feb 24, 2026

Industrial Policy

The dangerous week Washington onshores 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 · Feb 24, 2026

Drug Prices

The last-minute week Washington reprices 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 · Feb 23, 2026

The Strait

The last-minute week Washington strains 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 · Feb 23, 2026

The Border

A predictable bargain over a Safe Third Country strain

Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a Safe Third Country strain — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.

Nadia Rahman · Feb 23, 2026