Drug Prices
Grand Rapids cannot look away from Medicare drug talks
American health policy leaks north. Medicare drug talks are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Elena Voss · Jun 8, 2026
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Foggy Bottom stays late on Gulf Coast refining
Jun 8, 2026
The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside the northern border narrative
Jun 8, 2026
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts the classified-documents fight
Jun 8, 2026
The continental week Washington courts Gulf shipping insurance
Jun 8, 2026
The northern border staffing measure hiding inside carrier-group math
Jun 8, 2026
Allentown cannot look away from cross-border data rules
Jun 7, 2026
Markets
A legal bargain over the September FOMC
The number that moved Washington on June 7, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jun 7, 2026
The Map
Foggy Bottom stays late on early-state enthusiasm
From Des Moines to the suburbs that decide Congress, early-state enthusiasm is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jun 7, 2026
The Floor
The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside a USMCA enforcement hammer
Lawmakers spent June 7, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jun 7, 2026
West Wing
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront a Cabinet loyalty test
On June 7, 2026, the presidency turned a Cabinet loyalty test into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jun 7, 2026
Industrial Policy
Canada’s stake in Canada’s compute shortage just got larger
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 · Jun 7, 2026
Drug Prices
A transactional bargain over hospital staffing
American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 7, 2026
The Strait
Grand Rapids cannot look away from a Venezuela cargo bet
A barrel at US$93 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jun 7, 2026
The Border
Foggy Bottom stays late on 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 · Jun 7, 2026
The Nine
What 51 per cent in Wilmington says about 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 · Jun 7, 2026
The Alliance
Manchester cannot look away from a Venezuela oil bargain
American statecraft on June 7, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jun 7, 2026
The War
Alberta’s oil patch confronts NORAD modernization
Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Elena Voss · Jun 6, 2026
The Borderline
Canada’s stake in the embassy channel just got larger
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the embassy channel, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jun 6, 2026
