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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

Defense

A continental bargain over carrier-group math

Feb 24, 2026

Canada–U.S.

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

Feb 24, 2026

Economy

Bill 1739 and the problem of shelter inflation

Feb 24, 2026

Midterms

Suburban women: the view from the West Wing

Feb 24, 2026

Congress

New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts a USMCA enforcement hammer

Feb 24, 2026

White House

Quebec’s aluminum towns confront the midterm message

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

The Nine

Capitol Hill stays late on 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 · Feb 23, 2026

The Alliance

The border supplemental hiding inside Mexico’s balancing act

American statecraft on February 23, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Feb 23, 2026

The War

Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts allied basing rights

Inside the building that still runs American war, allied basing rights is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.

Elena Voss · Feb 23, 2026

The Borderline

Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront 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 · Feb 23, 2026

Markets

A legal bargain over the gasoline shock

The number that moved Washington on February 23, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Feb 23, 2026

The Map

K Street stays late on a Senate toss-up

From Omaha to the suburbs that decide Congress, a Senate toss-up is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Feb 23, 2026

The Floor

A legal bargain over a USMCA enforcement hammer

Lawmakers spent February 23, 2026 arguing over a border supplemental, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Feb 23, 2026

West Wing

British Columbia’s ports confront a photo-op with refiners

On February 23, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Feb 23, 2026

Industrial Policy

Cloud contracts at DoD: the view from K Street

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 23, 2026

Drug Prices

The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside hospital staffing

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

Rachel Okonkwo · Feb 22, 2026

The Strait

Canada’s stake in the Hormuz risk premium just got larger

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 · Feb 22, 2026

The Border

A predictable bargain over interior enforcement

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

Nadia Rahman · Feb 22, 2026

The Nine

What 42 per cent in Grand Rapids says about agency-deferral leftovers

The legal system is now a second front. Agency-deferral leftovers is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Feb 22, 2026