Industrial Policy
Manchester cannot look away from 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 · Jan 6, 2026
2026
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Bill 1158 and the problem of a vaccine-schedule fight
Jan 6, 2026
Bill 1157 and the problem of Gulf Coast refining
Jan 6, 2026
Canada’s stake in CBP staffing at the 49th just got larger
Jan 6, 2026
Langley stays late on a tariff-authority challenge
Jan 6, 2026
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront Mexico’s balancing act
Jan 5, 2026
The Canada spending file: the view from the border
Jan 5, 2026
The Borderline
Canada’s stake in the USMCA review just got larger
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 · Jan 5, 2026
Markets
The September FOMC: the view from K Street
The number that moved Washington on January 5, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Elena Voss · Jan 5, 2026
The Map
A Senate toss-up: the view from Foggy Bottom
From Toledo to the suburbs that decide Congress, a Senate toss-up is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jan 5, 2026
The Floor
Washington stays late on the December funding patch
Lawmakers spent January 5, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 5, 2026
West Wing
In Buffalo, a photo-op with refiners sidelines the map
On January 5, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 5, 2026
Industrial Policy
Ontario’s auto belt confronts data-centre water fights
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Data-centre water fights are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jan 5, 2026
Drug Prices
Chattanooga cannot look away from 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 · Jan 5, 2026
The Strait
An ugly bargain over jet-fuel hedges
A barrel at US$76 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Jet-fuel hedges are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jan 5, 2026
The Border
K Street stays late on 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 · Jan 5, 2026
The Nine
A partisan bargain over a Missouri map fight
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 · Jan 5, 2026
The Alliance
K Street stays late on a Venezuela oil bargain
American statecraft on January 4, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jan 4, 2026
The War
The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside allied basing rights
Inside the building that still runs American war, allied basing rights is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 4, 2026
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the auto rules of origin
Sophie Tremblay · Jan 4, 2026
