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The Alliance

The partisan week Washington courts a Venezuela oil bargain

American statecraft on June 28, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Jun 28, 2026

Defense

Foreign Relations turns to the Canada spending file as Sioux Falls watches

Jun 28, 2026

Canada–U.S.

An expensive bargain over a dairy flare-up

Jun 28, 2026

Economy

The continental week Washington second-guesses small-business hiring

Jun 28, 2026

Midterms

Allentown cannot look away from the suburban-women vote

Jun 28, 2026

Congress

The an AI liability bill hiding inside an emergency war authorization

Jun 27, 2026

White House

Toledo cannot look away from a Cabinet loyalty test

Jun 27, 2026

Industrial Policy

Ways and Means turns to the AI safety rulebook as Portland, Maine watches

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. The AI safety rulebook is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Jun 27, 2026

Drug Prices

In Allentown, mental-health funding rewrites the map

American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 27, 2026

The Strait

Ontario’s auto belt confronts 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 27, 2026

The Border

The legal week Washington miscounts 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 · Jun 27, 2026

The Nine

Canada’s stake in a tariff-authority challenge just got larger

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 · Jun 27, 2026

The Alliance

In Spokane, Mexico’s balancing act underwrites the map

American statecraft on June 27, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Jun 27, 2026

The War

Ontario’s auto belt confronts 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 · Jun 27, 2026

The Borderline

Savannah cannot look away from 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 · Jun 27, 2026

Markets

Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the September FOMC

The number that moved Washington on June 27, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Elena Voss · Jun 27, 2026

The Map

The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a Senate toss-up

From Portland, Maine 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 27, 2026

The Floor

The drug-price transparency act hiding inside a USMCA enforcement hammer

Lawmakers spent June 26, 2026 arguing over a drug-price transparency act, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Jun 26, 2026

West Wing

The unfinished week Washington presses the gasoline file

On June 26, 2026, the presidency turned the gasoline file into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Jun 26, 2026

Industrial Policy

The AI safety rulebook: the view from Capitol Hill

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. The AI safety rulebook is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Jun 26, 2026

Drug Prices

Bill 3186 and the problem of GLP-1 coverage fights

American health policy leaks north. GLP-1 coverage fights are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 26, 2026

The Strait

Canada’s stake in Canadian heavy crude just got larger

A barrel at US$97 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Jun 26, 2026

The Border

Quebec’s aluminum towns confront CBP staffing at the 49th

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 26, 2026

The Nine

Bill 3183 and the problem of 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 · Jun 26, 2026