Markets
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts the gasoline shock
The number that moved Washington on May 29, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 29, 2026
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Homeland Security turns to the suburban-women vote as Manchester watches
May 29, 2026
Langley stays late on an emergency war authorization
May 29, 2026
Manchester cannot look away from the midterm message
May 29, 2026
Bill 2851 and the problem of cloud contracts at DoD
May 29, 2026
K Street stays late on hospital staffing
May 29, 2026
Bill 2849 and the problem of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
May 29, 2026
The Border
The defence production rewrite hiding inside 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 29, 2026
The Nine
What 39 per cent in Wilmington says about a Missouri map fight
The legal system is now a second front. A Missouri map fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · May 29, 2026
The Alliance
In Wilmington, a UN corridor fight loses the map
American statecraft on May 28, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · May 28, 2026
The War
An expensive bargain over the tanker war
Inside the building that still runs American war, the tanker war is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · May 28, 2026
The Borderline
The USMCA review: the view from Langley
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 · May 28, 2026
Markets
Alberta’s oil patch confronts small-business hiring
The number that moved Washington on May 28, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 28, 2026
The Map
Toledo cannot look away from the ground game in Pennsylvania
From Toledo 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 28, 2026
The Floor
The farm bill leftovers: the view from Langley
Lawmakers spent May 28, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · May 28, 2026
West Wing
Bill 2840 and the problem of the gasoline file
On May 28, 2026, the presidency turned the gasoline file into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · May 28, 2026
Industrial Policy
Green Bay cannot look away from data-centre water fights
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Data-centre water fights are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · May 28, 2026
Drug Prices
A transactional bargain over 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 28, 2026
The Strait
Canada’s stake in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve just got larger
A barrel at US$92 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · May 28, 2026
The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside a tariff-authority challenge
Claire Fontaine · May 28, 2026
