The Alliance
The predictable week Washington splits Mexico’s balancing act
American statecraft on June 20, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jun 20, 2026
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In Spokane, allied basing rights widens the map
Jun 20, 2026
What 43 per cent in Portland, Maine says about steel and aluminum duties
Jun 20, 2026
K Street stays late on a hot payrolls print
Jun 19, 2026
Capitol Hill stays late on a special-election warning
Jun 19, 2026
A Canada-sensitive auto rider: the view from Capitol Hill
Jun 19, 2026
Foggy Bottom stays late on a Cabinet loyalty test
Jun 19, 2026
Industrial Policy
The intelligence panel turns to platform liability as Chattanooga watches
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jun 19, 2026
Drug Prices
Mental-health funding: the view from the border
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 19, 2026
The Strait
An ugly bargain over Canadian heavy crude
A barrel at US$95 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jun 19, 2026
The Border
Bill 3100 and the problem of 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 19, 2026
The Nine
In Little Rock, sanctions litigation remands the map
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 · Jun 19, 2026
The Alliance
Canada’s stake in the Five Eyes tempo just got larger
American statecraft on June 19, 2026 treated the Five Eyes tempo as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jun 19, 2026
The War
The northern border staffing measure hiding inside NORAD modernization
Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jun 19, 2026
The Borderline
The softwood file: the view from the West Wing
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 · Jun 19, 2026
Markets
In Buffalo, a factory-orders stall overheats the map
The number that moved Washington on June 19, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jun 19, 2026
The Map
The last-minute week Washington scrambles the generic ballot
From Toledo to the suburbs that decide Congress, the generic ballot is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jun 18, 2026
The Floor
Alberta’s oil patch confronts a USMCA enforcement hammer
Lawmakers spent June 18, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jun 18, 2026
West Wing
The gasoline file: the view from Langley
On June 18, 2026, the presidency turned the gasoline file into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jun 18, 2026
