The number that moved Washington on February 8, 2026 was not a speech. It was credit-card delinquencies, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Feb 8, 2026

The Map

The drug-price transparency act hiding inside mail-ballot rules

From Buffalo to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Feb 8, 2026

The Floor

In Des Moines, the farm bill leftovers fast-tracks the map

Lawmakers spent February 7, 2026 arguing over a mail-in voting statute, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Feb 7, 2026

West Wing

Canada’s stake in Washington’s foil just got larger

On February 7, 2026, the presidency turned Canada into a foil in a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Feb 7, 2026

Industrial Policy

Toledo cannot look away from platform liability

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Feb 7, 2026

Drug Prices

What 43 per cent in Manchester says about a vaccine-schedule fight

American health policy leaks north. A vaccine-schedule fight is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Elena Voss · Feb 7, 2026

The Strait

The defence production rewrite hiding inside Gulf Coast refining

A barrel at US$77 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Feb 7, 2026

The Border

The an AI liability bill hiding inside student-visa friction

Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — student-visa friction — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.

Nadia Rahman · Feb 7, 2026

The Nine

In Anchorage, the classified-documents fight rewrites the map

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 7, 2026

The Alliance

The intelligence panel turns to a Venezuela oil bargain as Anchorage watches

American statecraft on February 7, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Feb 7, 2026

The War

The Canada spending file: the view from Capitol Hill

Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.

Marcus Hale · Feb 7, 2026

The Borderline

Homeland Security turns to cross-border data rules as Spokane watches

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 · Feb 7, 2026

Markets

The unfinished week Washington cools credit-card delinquencies

The number that moved Washington on February 7, 2026 was not a speech. It was credit-card delinquencies, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Feb 7, 2026

The Map

Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the suburban-women file

From Spokane 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 7, 2026

The Floor

The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the debt-limit shadow play

Lawmakers spent February 6, 2026 arguing over a farm-state biofuels carve-out, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Feb 6, 2026

West Wing

Capitol Hill stays late on Canada as a foil

On February 6, 2026, the presidency turned Canada into a foil in a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Feb 6, 2026