The Alliance
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts a Venezuela oil bargain
American statecraft on March 23, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Mar 23, 2026
2026
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Canada’s stake in carrier-group math just got larger
Mar 22, 2026
The drug-price transparency act hiding inside dollar-for-dollar tariffs
Mar 22, 2026
The September FOMC: the view from Foggy Bottom
Mar 22, 2026
Bill 2050 and the problem of mail-ballot rules
Mar 22, 2026
Omaha cannot look away from a Canada-sensitive auto rider
Mar 22, 2026
A photo-op with refiners: the view from Foggy Bottom
Mar 22, 2026
Industrial Policy
Washington stays late on cloud contracts at DoD
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Mar 22, 2026
Drug Prices
Bill 2046 and the problem of 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 · Mar 22, 2026
The Strait
A transactional bargain over Canadian heavy crude
A barrel at US$80 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Mar 22, 2026
The Border
Bill 2044 and the problem of asylum clock rules
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — asylum clock rules — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Mar 22, 2026
The Nine
Bill 2043 and the problem of the mail-in voting order
The legal system is now a second front. The mail-in voting order is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Mar 22, 2026
The Alliance
The ugly week Washington courts the China secondary-sanctions threat
American statecraft on March 22, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Mar 22, 2026
The War
Bill 2041 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 · Mar 21, 2026
The Borderline
The softwood file: the view from Foggy Bottom
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 · Mar 21, 2026
Markets
Canada’s stake in shelter inflation just got larger
The number that moved Washington on March 21, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Mar 21, 2026
The Map
An ugly bargain over the House battleground
From Portland, Maine to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 21, 2026
The Floor
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront a border supplemental
Lawmakers spent March 21, 2026 arguing over a farm-state biofuels carve-out, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Mar 21, 2026
West Wing
In Savannah, the mail-in ballot order presses the map
On March 21, 2026, the presidency turned the mail-in ballot order into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Mar 21, 2026
