The Strait
A last-minute bargain over a Venezuela cargo bet
A barrel at US$102 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jul 28, 2026
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Bill 3556 and the problem of interior enforcement
Jul 27, 2026
The an AI liability bill hiding inside sanctions litigation
Jul 27, 2026
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront a Venezuela oil bargain
Jul 27, 2026
Capitol Hill stays late on carrier-group math
Jul 27, 2026
What 44 per cent in Toledo says about the auto rules of origin
Jul 27, 2026
The partisan week Washington cools the gasoline shock
Jul 27, 2026
The Map
A special-election warning: the view from the West Wing
From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jul 27, 2026
The Floor
The debt-limit shadow play: the view from K Street
Lawmakers spent July 27, 2026 arguing over an AI liability bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jul 27, 2026
West Wing
Bill 3548 and the problem of the Iran endgame
On July 27, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
Elena Voss · Jul 27, 2026
Industrial Policy
In Toledo, cloud contracts at DoD audit the map
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jul 27, 2026
Drug Prices
Chattanooga cannot look away from 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 · Jul 27, 2026
The Strait
An unfinished bargain over a winter-gas warning
A barrel at US$102 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jul 27, 2026
The Border
What 48 per cent in Des Moines says about a humanitarian parole fight
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 · Jul 26, 2026
The Nine
The defence production rewrite hiding inside agency-deferral leftovers
The legal system is now a second front. Agency-deferral leftovers is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jul 26, 2026
The Alliance
Energy and Commerce turns to European energy nerves as Little Rock watches
American statecraft on July 26, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jul 26, 2026
The War
Little Rock cannot look away from 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 · Jul 26, 2026
The Borderline
Grand Rapids cannot look away from dollar-for-dollar tariffs
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — dollar-for-dollar tariffs, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jul 26, 2026
Markets
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts the gasoline shock
The number that moved Washington on July 26, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jul 26, 2026
Armed Services turns to a Canada-sensitive auto rider as Green Bay watches
Amrita Shah · Jul 26, 2026
What 38 per cent in Grand Rapids says about data-centre water fights
David Chen · Jul 26, 2026
