Drug Prices
Canada’s stake in mental-health funding just got larger
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 20, 2026
2026
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Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Regions Bank and former employee of United Community Bank
Aug 20, 2026
Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with SouthPoint Bancshares, Inc. and announces termination of enforcement action with Deutsche Bank AG, DB USA Corporation, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch
Aug 20, 2026
Canada’s stake in a winter-gas warning just got larger
Aug 20, 2026
A quiet bargain over student-visa friction
Aug 20, 2026
The expensive week Washington fast-tracks an emergency war-powers case
Aug 20, 2026
Canada’s stake in Gulf shipping insurance just got larger
Aug 20, 2026
The War
Bill 3829 and the problem of 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 · Aug 20, 2026
The Borderline
Langley stays late on 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 19, 2026
Markets
An overnight bargain over the strong-dollar problem
The number that moved Washington on August 19, 2026 was not a speech. It was the strong-dollar problem, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 19, 2026
The Map
In Savannah, a special-election warning freezes the map
From Savannah to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Aug 19, 2026
The Floor
Canada’s stake in the farm bill leftovers just got larger
Lawmakers spent August 19, 2026 arguing over a stopgap spending bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Aug 19, 2026
West Wing
In Anchorage, the mail-in ballot order presses the map
On August 19, 2026, the presidency turned the mail-in ballot order into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Aug 19, 2026
The Fed
Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, July 28–29, 2026
Maclean’s Washington Bureau on the latest from the capital: Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, July 28–29, 2026.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 19, 2026
Industrial Policy
The predictable week Washington splits 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 · Aug 19, 2026
Drug Prices
In Omaha, a fentanyl precursor case narrows the map
American health policy leaks north. A fentanyl precursor case is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 19, 2026
The Strait
Canada’s stake in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve just got larger
A barrel at US$106 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 19, 2026
The Border
Des Moines 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.
Elena Voss · Aug 19, 2026
The Nine
What 40 per cent in Toledo says about agency-deferral leftovers
The legal system is now a second front. Agency-deferral leftovers is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Aug 19, 2026
