The Strait
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront a Venezuela cargo bet
A barrel at US$84 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 12, 2026
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A Safe Third Country strain: the view from Langley
Apr 12, 2026
What 45 per cent in Spokane says about the mail-in voting order
Apr 12, 2026
Armed Services turns to Mexico’s balancing act as Spokane watches
Apr 12, 2026
The intelligence panel turns to a munitions shortage as Green Bay watches
Apr 12, 2026
The partisan week Washington miscalculates the USMCA review
Apr 12, 2026
Washington stays late on the September FOMC
Apr 12, 2026
The Map
Bill 2290 and the problem of the suburban-women vote
From Portland, Maine to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Elena Voss · Apr 11, 2026
The Floor
In Savannah, a Canada-sensitive auto rider stalls the map
Lawmakers spent April 11, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Apr 11, 2026
West Wing
Foggy Bottom stays late on a late-night tariff threat
On April 11, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Apr 11, 2026
Industrial Policy
Judiciary turns to Canada’s compute shortage as Buffalo watches
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Canada’s compute shortage is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Apr 11, 2026
Drug Prices
In Des Moines, hospital staffing narrows the map
American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Apr 11, 2026
The Strait
Sioux Falls cannot look away from diesel inventories
A barrel at US$84 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 11, 2026
The Border
Green Bay cannot look away from work-permit backlogs
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — work-permit backlogs — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Apr 11, 2026
The Nine
Langley stays late on 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 · Apr 11, 2026
The Alliance
Bill 2282 and the problem of European energy nerves
American statecraft on April 11, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Apr 11, 2026
The War
In Manchester, carrier-group math accelerates the map
Inside the building that still runs American war, carrier-group math is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Apr 11, 2026
The Borderline
The stopgap spending bill hiding inside 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 · Apr 11, 2026
Markets
Washington stays late on shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on April 11, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Apr 11, 2026
