2026
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366 stories from May 2026 · page 3 of 16
Markets
The number that moved Washington on May 27, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 27, 2026
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The Border
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a humanitarian parole fight — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · May 27, 2026
The Nine
The legal system is now a second front. The classified-documents fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · May 27, 2026
The Alliance
American statecraft on May 26, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · May 26, 2026
The War
Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · May 26, 2026
The Borderline
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 26, 2026
Markets
The number that moved Washington on May 26, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 26, 2026
The Map
From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, the generic ballot is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · May 26, 2026
The Floor
Lawmakers spent May 26, 2026 arguing over a mail-in voting statute, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Elena Voss · May 26, 2026
West Wing
On May 26, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · May 26, 2026
Industrial Policy
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. The AI safety rulebook is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · May 26, 2026
Drug Prices
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · May 26, 2026
The Strait
A barrel at US$91 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · May 26, 2026
Claire Fontaine · May 26, 2026
Sophie Tremblay · May 25, 2026