The Strait
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront a winter-gas warning
A barrel at US$85 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 22, 2026
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Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront student-visa friction
Apr 22, 2026
An emergency war-powers case: the view from Foggy Bottom
Apr 22, 2026
A continental bargain over a UN corridor fight
Apr 22, 2026
Bill 2413 and the problem of the Canada spending file
Apr 22, 2026
Raleigh cannot look away from a dairy flare-up
Apr 22, 2026
Homeland Security turns to the strong-dollar problem as Allentown watches
Apr 22, 2026
The Map
In Manchester, mail-ballot rules haunt the map
From Manchester to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Apr 22, 2026
The Floor
A transactional bargain over the debt-limit shadow play
Lawmakers spent April 22, 2026 arguing over a defence production rewrite, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Elena Voss · Apr 22, 2026
West Wing
Buffalo cannot look away from a sudden pardon rumour
On April 21, 2026, the presidency turned a sudden pardon rumour into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Apr 21, 2026
Industrial Policy
What 50 per cent in Raleigh says about 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 · Apr 21, 2026
Drug Prices
The northern border staffing measure 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 · Apr 21, 2026
The Strait
What 49 per cent in Little Rock says about a Venezuela cargo bet
A barrel at US$85 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 21, 2026
The Border
Allentown cannot look away from 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 · Apr 21, 2026
The Nine
What 43 per cent in Sioux Falls says about sanctions litigation
The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Apr 21, 2026
The Alliance
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts a UN corridor fight
American statecraft on April 21, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Apr 21, 2026
The War
What 43 per cent in Boise says about 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 · Apr 21, 2026
The Borderline
Ways and Means turns to the softwood file as Savannah watches
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 21, 2026
Markets
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront a hot payrolls print
The number that moved Washington on April 21, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Apr 21, 2026
