The Borderline
Sioux Falls cannot look away from the USMCA review
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the USMCA review, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jun 3, 2026
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The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside the September FOMC
Jun 3, 2026
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts the suburban-women file
Jun 3, 2026
What 52 per cent in Tucson says about a USMCA enforcement hammer
Jun 3, 2026
The mail-in ballot order: the view from Capitol Hill
Jun 3, 2026
The USMCA enforcement package hiding inside Canada’s compute shortage
Jun 3, 2026
Canada’s stake in Medicare drug talks just got larger
Jun 3, 2026
The Strait
Grand Rapids cannot look away from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
A barrel at US$93 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jun 3, 2026
The Border
Canada’s stake in interior enforcement just got larger
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jun 3, 2026
The Nine
Canada’s stake in a Missouri map fight just got larger
The legal system is now a second front. A Missouri map fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jun 3, 2026
The Alliance
Foreign Relations turns to Gulf shipping insurance as Savannah watches
American statecraft on June 3, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jun 3, 2026
The War
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts the Hormuz mission
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jun 2, 2026
The Borderline
The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside cross-border data rules
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — cross-border data rules, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jun 2, 2026
Markets
Canada’s stake in a hot payrolls print just got larger
The number that moved Washington on June 2, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jun 2, 2026
The Map
An unfinished bargain over the suburban-women vote
From Savannah to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Elena Voss · Jun 2, 2026
The Floor
The debt-limit shadow play: the view from K Street
Lawmakers spent June 2, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jun 2, 2026
West Wing
What 48 per cent in Anchorage says about a West Wing shake-up
On June 2, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jun 2, 2026
Industrial Policy
Bill 2899 and the problem of a chip-export tightening
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. A chip-export tightening is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jun 2, 2026
Drug Prices
Bill 2898 and the problem of hospital staffing
American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 2, 2026
