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The Nine

What 42 per cent in Buffalo says about a tariff-authority challenge

The legal system is now a second front. A tariff-authority challenge is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Jan 28, 2026

World

What 47 per cent in Omaha says about the China secondary-sanctions threat

Jan 28, 2026

Defense

A partisan bargain over a munitions shortage

Jan 28, 2026

Canada–U.S.

K Street stays late on the softwood file

Jan 28, 2026

Economy

What 47 per cent in Anchorage says about credit-card delinquencies

Jan 28, 2026

Midterms

Bill 1414 and the problem of a special-election warning

Jan 27, 2026

Congress

An emergency war authorization: the view from Capitol Hill

Jan 27, 2026

West Wing

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

On January 27, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Jan 27, 2026

Industrial Policy

Foreign Relations turns to Canada’s compute shortage as Little Rock watches

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 · Jan 27, 2026

Drug Prices

In Savannah, an FDA nomination reprices the map

American health policy leaks north. An FDA nomination is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Jan 27, 2026

The Strait

Ways and Means turns to a Venezuela cargo bet as Des Moines watches

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

Owen MacLeod · Jan 27, 2026

The Border

The mail-in voting statute hiding inside 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 · Jan 27, 2026

The Nine

Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the mail-in voting order

The legal system is now a second front. The mail-in voting order is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Jan 27, 2026

The Alliance

Langley stays late on Gulf shipping insurance

American statecraft on January 27, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Elena Voss · Jan 27, 2026

The War

In Little Rock, the Hormuz mission accelerates the map

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

Marcus Hale · Jan 27, 2026

The Borderline

The border supplemental hiding inside the USMCA review

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

Sophie Tremblay · Jan 27, 2026

Markets

Bill 1403 and the problem of credit-card delinquencies

The number that moved Washington on January 27, 2026 was not a speech. It was credit-card delinquencies, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Jan 27, 2026

The Map

The defence production rewrite hiding inside a special-election warning

From Little Rock to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Jan 26, 2026

The Floor

Chattanooga cannot look away from the Pentagon’s wish list

Lawmakers spent January 26, 2026 arguing over an energy emergency resolution, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Jan 26, 2026

West Wing

What 52 per cent in Little Rock says about the mail-in ballot order

On January 26, 2026, the presidency turned the mail-in ballot order into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Jan 26, 2026

Industrial Policy

A partisan bargain over 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 · Jan 26, 2026

Drug Prices

A legal bargain over 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 · Jan 26, 2026

The Strait

Bill 1397 and the problem of diesel inventories

A barrel at US$77 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Jan 26, 2026

The Border

Toledo cannot look away from 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 · Jan 26, 2026