Drug Prices
Bill 2898 and the problem of 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 2, 2026
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The stopgap spending bill hiding inside a Venezuela cargo bet
Jun 2, 2026
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront a humanitarian parole fight
Jun 2, 2026
The partisan week Washington blocks the mail-in voting order
Jun 2, 2026
Spokane cannot look away from the Five Eyes tempo
Jun 2, 2026
Carrier-group math: the view from Foggy Bottom
Jun 1, 2026
Canada’s stake in the embassy channel just got larger
Jun 1, 2026
Markets
The gasoline shock: the view from Langley
The number that moved Washington on June 1, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jun 1, 2026
The Map
Bill 2890 and the problem of a special-election warning
From Green Bay to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jun 1, 2026
The Floor
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront the farm bill leftovers
Lawmakers spent June 1, 2026 arguing over a defence production rewrite, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jun 1, 2026
West Wing
The last-minute week Washington tests the midterm message
On June 1, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jun 1, 2026
Industrial Policy
Bill 2887 and the problem of the AI safety rulebook
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 · Jun 1, 2026
Drug Prices
Langley stays late on mental-health funding
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 1, 2026
The Strait
Alberta’s oil patch confronts the Hormuz risk premium
A barrel at US$92 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.
Elena Voss · Jun 1, 2026
The Border
What 50 per cent in Sioux Falls says about 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 · Jun 1, 2026
The Nine
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront 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 · Jun 1, 2026
The Alliance
Canada’s stake in European energy nerves just got larger
American statecraft on June 1, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jun 1, 2026
The War
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside an Arctic radar gap
Inside the building that still runs American war, an Arctic radar gap is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · May 31, 2026
The Borderline
The border supplemental hiding inside steel and aluminum duties
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 31, 2026