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The Alliance

A last-minute bargain over Gulf shipping insurance

American statecraft on June 30, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Jun 30, 2026

Defense

The last-minute week Washington shortens the Hormuz mission

Jun 30, 2026

Canada–U.S.

What 41 per cent in Chattanooga says about the auto rules of origin

Jun 30, 2026

Economy

Canada’s stake in credit-card delinquencies just got larger

Jun 30, 2026

Midterms

A quiet bargain over a special-election warning

Jun 30, 2026

Congress

A partisan bargain over the farm bill leftovers

Jun 29, 2026

White House

The expensive week Washington orders the Canadian foil

Jun 29, 2026

Industrial Policy

Foreign Relations turns to data-centre water fights as Toledo watches

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 · Jun 29, 2026

Drug Prices

The mail-in voting statute hiding inside 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.

Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 29, 2026

The Strait

Canada’s stake in diesel inventories just got larger

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

Owen MacLeod · Jun 29, 2026

The Border

Capitol Hill stays late on 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 · Jun 29, 2026

The Nine

Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront the classified-documents fight

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 · Jun 29, 2026

The Alliance

Langley stays late on Mexico’s balancing act

American statecraft on June 29, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Jun 29, 2026

The War

A partisan bargain over an Arctic radar gap

Inside the building that still runs American war, an Arctic radar gap is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.

Marcus Hale · Jun 29, 2026

The Borderline

Alberta’s oil patch confronts the softwood file

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

Sophie Tremblay · Jun 29, 2026

Markets

Shelter inflation: the view from Capitol Hill

The number that moved Washington on June 29, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Jun 29, 2026

The Map

New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts a Senate toss-up

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

Peter Lang · Jun 29, 2026

The Floor

What 52 per cent in Little Rock says about a border supplemental

Lawmakers spent June 28, 2026 arguing over a drug-price transparency act, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Jun 28, 2026

West Wing

The Iran endgame: the view from Langley

On June 28, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Jun 28, 2026

Industrial Policy

The intelligence panel turns to an election-deepfake statute as Allentown watches

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. An election-deepfake statute is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Jun 28, 2026

Drug Prices

The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside an FDA nomination

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

Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 28, 2026

The Strait

The continental week Washington prices diesel inventories

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

Owen MacLeod · Jun 28, 2026

The Border

In Green Bay, the northern border narrative tightens the map

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

Elena Voss · Jun 28, 2026

The Nine

Bill 3207 and the problem of a birthright petition

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

Claire Fontaine · Jun 28, 2026