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The War

The mail-in voting statute hiding inside 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.

Elena Voss · May 20, 2026

Canada–U.S.

Steel and aluminum duties: the view from Foggy Bottom

May 20, 2026

Economy

Homeland Security turns to the strong-dollar problem as Manchester watches

May 20, 2026

Midterms

The expensive week Washington scrambles the ground game in Pennsylvania

May 20, 2026

Congress

A transactional bargain over the farm bill leftovers

May 20, 2026

White House

A Cabinet loyalty test: the view from Foggy Bottom

May 20, 2026

Technology

Canada’s stake in data-centre water fights just got larger

May 20, 2026

Drug Prices

Langley stays late on 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 · May 20, 2026

The Strait

Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront Canadian heavy crude

A barrel at US$90 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · May 20, 2026

The Border

The mail-in voting statute hiding inside 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 · May 20, 2026

The Nine

The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside 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 · May 19, 2026

The Alliance

Bill 2738 and the problem of a UN corridor fight

American statecraft on May 19, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · May 19, 2026

The War

The mail-in voting statute hiding inside 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 · May 19, 2026

The Borderline

Ways and Means turns to steel and aluminum duties as Anchorage watches

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 · May 19, 2026

Markets

Bill 2735 and the problem of a hot payrolls print

The number that moved Washington on May 19, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · May 19, 2026

The Map

Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the ground game in Pennsylvania

From Sioux Falls to the suburbs that decide Congress, the ground game in Pennsylvania is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · May 19, 2026

The Floor

In Boise, the debt-limit shadow play buries the map

Lawmakers spent May 19, 2026 arguing over a border supplemental, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · May 19, 2026

West Wing

The dangerous week Washington sidelines a Cabinet loyalty test

On May 19, 2026, the presidency turned a Cabinet loyalty test into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

Elena Voss · May 19, 2026

Industrial Policy

Ontario’s auto belt confronts a chip-export tightening

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 · May 19, 2026

Drug Prices

A transactional bargain over 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 · May 19, 2026

The Strait

Energy and Commerce turns to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as Little Rock watches

A barrel at US$90 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · May 19, 2026

The Border

Bill 2728 and the problem of 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 · May 19, 2026

The Nine

Energy and Commerce turns to agency-deferral leftovers as Sioux Falls watches

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 · May 18, 2026

The Alliance

In Fresno, a UN corridor fight underwrites the map

American statecraft on May 18, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · May 18, 2026