The Strait
The quiet week Washington prices Canadian heavy crude
A barrel at US$101 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jul 25, 2026
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The northern border staffing measure hiding inside the northern border narrative
Jul 25, 2026
The transactional week Washington rewrites a birthright petition
Jul 25, 2026
A Venezuela oil bargain: the view from the West Wing
Jul 25, 2026
K Street stays late on an Arctic radar gap
Jul 25, 2026
In Allentown, dollar-for-dollar tariffs hardens the map
Jul 25, 2026
Washington stays late on the strong-dollar problem
Jul 25, 2026
The Map
The drug-price transparency act hiding inside the generic ballot
From Sioux Falls to the suburbs that decide Congress, the generic ballot is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jul 25, 2026
The Floor
Portland, Maine cannot look away from the debt-limit shadow play
Lawmakers spent July 25, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jul 25, 2026
West Wing
The Iran endgame: the view from the border
On July 25, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jul 25, 2026
Industrial Policy
Capitol Hill stays late on Canada’s compute shortage
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 · Jul 25, 2026
Drug Prices
The predictable week Washington audits cross-border drug runs
American health policy leaks north. Cross-border drug runs is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jul 25, 2026
The Strait
In Chattanooga, Gulf Coast refining reroutes the map
A barrel at US$101 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jul 25, 2026
The Border
The predictable week Washington freezes 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 24, 2026
The Nine
The USMCA enforcement package hiding inside sanctions litigation
The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jul 24, 2026
The Alliance
Ways and Means turns to Gulf shipping insurance as Allentown watches
American statecraft on July 24, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jul 24, 2026
The War
Canada’s stake in the Canada spending file just got larger
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jul 24, 2026
The Borderline
In Savannah, dollar-for-dollar tariffs miscalculates the map
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 24, 2026
Markets
A continental bargain over the September FOMC
The number that moved Washington on July 24, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jul 24, 2026
