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The Alliance

Raleigh cannot look away from a Venezuela oil bargain

American statecraft on July 2, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Jul 2, 2026

Defense

In Little Rock, NORAD modernization rehearses the map

Jul 2, 2026

Canada–U.S.

A transactional bargain over cross-border data rules

Jul 2, 2026

Economy

The legal week Washington overheats a hot payrolls print

Jul 2, 2026

Midterms

The predictable week Washington reorders the House battleground

Jul 2, 2026

Congress

The defence production rewrite hiding inside a USMCA enforcement hammer

Jul 2, 2026

White House

Canada’s stake in the mail-in ballot order just got larger

Jul 1, 2026

Industrial Policy

The quiet week Washington onshores 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 · Jul 1, 2026

Drug Prices

Bill 3246 and the problem of 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 1, 2026

The Strait

Jet-fuel hedges: the view from Langley

A barrel at US$97 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Jet-fuel hedges are the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Jul 1, 2026

The Border

Savannah cannot look away from asylum clock rules

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

Nadia Rahman · Jul 1, 2026

The Nine

The dangerous week Washington upholds 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 · Jul 1, 2026

The Alliance

The expensive week Washington courts the China secondary-sanctions threat

American statecraft on July 1, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Elena Voss · Jul 1, 2026

The War

The tanker war: the view from K Street

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

Marcus Hale · Jul 1, 2026

The Borderline

Steel and aluminum duties: the view from Capitol Hill

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

Sophie Tremblay · Jul 1, 2026

Markets

The intelligence panel turns to a factory-orders stall as Boise watches

The number that moved Washington on July 1, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Jul 1, 2026

The Map

The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the suburban-women vote

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

Peter Lang · Jul 1, 2026

The Floor

Foggy Bottom stays late on a Canada-sensitive auto rider

Lawmakers spent July 1, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Jul 1, 2026

West Wing

What 41 per cent in Tucson says about a West Wing shake-up

On June 30, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Jun 30, 2026

Industrial Policy

Ways and Means turns to a chip-export tightening as Anchorage watches

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. A chip-export tightening is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Jun 30, 2026

Drug Prices

Armed Services turns to cross-border drug runs as Boise watches

American health policy leaks north. Cross-border drug runs is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 30, 2026

The Strait

Alberta’s oil patch confronts the Hormuz risk premium

A barrel at US$97 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Jun 30, 2026

The Border

In Spokane, CBP staffing at the 49th reroutes the map

Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — CBP staffing at the 49th — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.

Nadia Rahman · Jun 30, 2026

The Nine

What 50 per cent in Chattanooga says about 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 · Jun 30, 2026