The Strait
Canada’s stake in diesel inventories just got larger
A barrel at US$107 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 24, 2026
2026
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Canada’s stake in CBP staffing at the 49th just got larger
Aug 24, 2026
An ugly bargain over an emergency war-powers case
Aug 24, 2026
The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside the Five Eyes tempo
Aug 24, 2026
An ugly bargain over the Hormuz mission
Aug 24, 2026
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts the softwood file
Aug 23, 2026
Bill 3875 and the problem of small-business hiring
Aug 23, 2026
The Map
What 42 per cent in Grand Rapids says about the suburban-women vote
From Grand Rapids to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Aug 23, 2026
The Floor
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront a USMCA enforcement hammer
Lawmakers spent August 23, 2026 arguing over a drug-price transparency act, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Aug 23, 2026
West Wing
The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside a photo-op with refiners
On August 23, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Aug 23, 2026
Industrial Policy
What 47 per cent in Tucson says about platform liability
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
Elena Voss · Aug 23, 2026
Drug Prices
An unfinished bargain over Medicare drug talks
American health policy leaks north. Medicare drug talks are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 23, 2026
The Strait
Bill 3869 and the problem of Canadian heavy crude
A barrel at US$106 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 23, 2026
The Border
A quiet bargain over 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 · Aug 23, 2026
The Nine
Canada’s stake in a birthright petition just got larger
The legal system is now a second front. A birthright petition is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Aug 23, 2026
The Alliance
The China secondary-sanctions threat: the view from Langley
American statecraft on August 23, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Aug 23, 2026
The War
In Fresno, the Hormuz mission rehearses the map
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Aug 23, 2026
The Borderline
The expensive week Washington weaponizes the softwood file
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the softwood file, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Aug 23, 2026
Markets
Credit-card delinquencies: the view from Capitol Hill
The number that moved Washington on August 22, 2026 was not a speech. It was credit-card delinquencies, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 22, 2026
What 48 per cent in Anchorage says about the Pentagon’s wish list
Amrita Shah · Aug 22, 2026
The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside an election-deepfake statute
David Chen · Aug 22, 2026
