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The Nine

The an AI liability bill hiding inside sanctions litigation

The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Jul 27, 2026

World

Quebec’s aluminum towns confront a Venezuela oil bargain

Jul 27, 2026

Defense

Capitol Hill stays late on carrier-group math

Jul 27, 2026

Canada–U.S.

What 44 per cent in Toledo says about the auto rules of origin

Jul 27, 2026

Economy

The partisan week Washington cools the gasoline shock

Jul 27, 2026

Midterms

A special-election warning: the view from the West Wing

Jul 27, 2026

Congress

The debt-limit shadow play: the view from K Street

Jul 27, 2026

West Wing

Bill 3548 and the problem of the Iran endgame

On July 27, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

Elena Voss · Jul 27, 2026

Industrial Policy

In Toledo, cloud contracts at DoD audit the map

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 · Jul 27, 2026

Drug Prices

Chattanooga cannot look away from 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 · Jul 27, 2026

The Strait

An unfinished bargain over a winter-gas warning

A barrel at US$102 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Jul 27, 2026

The Border

What 48 per cent in Des Moines says about 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 · Jul 26, 2026

The Nine

The defence production rewrite hiding inside 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 · Jul 26, 2026

The Alliance

Energy and Commerce turns to European energy nerves as Little Rock watches

American statecraft on July 26, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Jul 26, 2026

The War

Little Rock cannot look away from a munitions shortage

Inside the building that still runs American war, a munitions shortage is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.

Marcus Hale · Jul 26, 2026

The Borderline

Grand Rapids cannot look away from 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 · Jul 26, 2026

Markets

New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts the gasoline shock

The number that moved Washington on July 26, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Jul 26, 2026

The Map

The ugly week Washington explodes mail-ballot rules

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

Peter Lang · Jul 26, 2026

The Floor

Armed Services turns to a Canada-sensitive auto rider as Green Bay watches

Lawmakers spent July 26, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Jul 26, 2026

West Wing

A quiet bargain over the midterm message

On July 26, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Jul 26, 2026

Industrial Policy

What 38 per cent in Grand Rapids says about data-centre water fights

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Data-centre water fights are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Jul 26, 2026

Drug Prices

A transactional 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 · Jul 26, 2026

The Strait

The quiet week Washington prices Canadian heavy crude

A barrel at US$101 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Jul 25, 2026

The Border

The northern border staffing measure 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 · Jul 25, 2026