The Strait
A continental bargain over a Venezuela cargo bet
A barrel at US$87 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 28, 2026
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What 40 per cent in Allentown says about a humanitarian parole fight
Apr 28, 2026
The predictable week Washington shadow-dockets agency-deferral leftovers
Apr 28, 2026
The China secondary-sanctions threat: the view from Foggy Bottom
Apr 28, 2026
In Toledo, the tanker war accelerates the map
Apr 28, 2026
Portland, Maine cannot look away from the softwood file
Apr 28, 2026
The September FOMC: the view from the border
Apr 28, 2026
The Map
Energy and Commerce turns to a special-election warning as Manchester watches
From Manchester to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Apr 28, 2026
The Floor
In Wilmington, a USMCA enforcement hammer stalls the map
Lawmakers spent April 28, 2026 arguing over a farm-state biofuels carve-out, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Apr 28, 2026
West Wing
What 41 per cent in Buffalo says about a sudden pardon rumour
On April 28, 2026, the presidency turned a sudden pardon rumour into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Apr 28, 2026
Industrial Policy
In Wilmington, platform liability onshores the map
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Apr 27, 2026
Drug Prices
Grand Rapids cannot look away from 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 · Apr 27, 2026
The Strait
What 51 per cent in Toledo says about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
A barrel at US$86 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Elena Voss · Apr 27, 2026
The Border
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators 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 · Apr 27, 2026
The Nine
The partisan week Washington upholds 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 · Apr 27, 2026
The Alliance
What 45 per cent in Grand Rapids says about the China secondary-sanctions threat
American statecraft on April 27, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Apr 27, 2026
The War
Canada’s stake in NORAD modernization just got larger
Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Apr 27, 2026
The Borderline
What 45 per cent in Chattanooga says about cross-border data rules
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — cross-border data rules, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Apr 27, 2026
Markets
Boise cannot look away from the gasoline shock
The number that moved Washington on April 27, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Apr 27, 2026
