The Strait
What 43 per cent in Fresno says about Canadian heavy crude
A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Mar 1, 2026
2026
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What 39 per cent in Raleigh says about a humanitarian parole fight
Mar 1, 2026
Spokane cannot look away from the classified-documents fight
Mar 1, 2026
Canada’s stake in Gulf shipping insurance just got larger
Mar 1, 2026
Foggy Bottom stays late on an Arctic radar gap
Mar 1, 2026
The unfinished week Washington frays dollar-for-dollar tariffs
Mar 1, 2026
The partisan week Washington misreads a factory-orders stall
Mar 1, 2026
The Map
The legal week Washington freezes the suburban-women vote
From Raleigh to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 1, 2026
The Floor
The border supplemental hiding inside a USMCA enforcement hammer
Lawmakers spent March 1, 2026 arguing over a border supplemental, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Elena Voss · Mar 1, 2026
West Wing
Capitol Hill stays late on a Cabinet loyalty test
On March 1, 2026, the presidency turned a Cabinet loyalty test into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Mar 1, 2026
Industrial Policy
An expensive bargain over platform liability
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Mar 1, 2026
Drug Prices
An expensive bargain over a fentanyl precursor case
American health policy leaks north. A fentanyl precursor case is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Mar 1, 2026
The Strait
What 44 per cent in Tucson says about a Venezuela cargo bet
A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Feb 28, 2026
The Border
Raleigh cannot look away from 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 · Feb 28, 2026
The Nine
K Street stays late on 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 · Feb 28, 2026
The Alliance
Energy and Commerce turns to European energy nerves as Little Rock watches
American statecraft on February 28, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Feb 28, 2026
The War
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts the tanker war
Inside the building that still runs American war, the tanker war is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Feb 28, 2026
The Borderline
The intelligence panel turns to dollar-for-dollar tariffs as Des Moines watches
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 · Feb 28, 2026
Markets
What 40 per cent in Buffalo says about small-business hiring
The number that moved Washington on February 28, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Feb 28, 2026
