The Alliance
The ugly week Washington improvises the Five Eyes tempo
American statecraft on March 18, 2026 treated the Five Eyes tempo as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Mar 18, 2026
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An expensive bargain over an Arctic radar gap
Mar 18, 2026
The continental week Washington hardens the USMCA review
Mar 18, 2026
K Street stays late on a factory-orders stall
Mar 18, 2026
Canada’s stake in the House battleground just got larger
Mar 18, 2026
The continental week Washington loads a border supplemental
Mar 18, 2026
Sioux Falls cannot look away from the midterm message
Mar 18, 2026
Industrial Policy
Canada’s stake in a chip-export tightening just got larger
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 · Mar 18, 2026
Drug Prices
What 52 per cent in Sioux Falls says about an FDA nomination
American health policy leaks north. An FDA nomination is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Mar 18, 2026
The Strait
Canada’s stake in Gulf Coast refining just got larger
A barrel at US$79 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Mar 18, 2026
The Border
A continental bargain over a Safe Third Country strain
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a Safe Third Country strain — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Mar 18, 2026
The Nine
Bill 1995 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 18, 2026
The Alliance
A partisan bargain over Mexico’s balancing act
American statecraft on March 17, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Mar 17, 2026
The War
Armed Services turns to the Canada spending file as Manchester watches
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Mar 17, 2026
The Borderline
The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside 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 · Mar 17, 2026
Markets
Canada’s stake in shelter inflation just got larger
The number that moved Washington on March 17, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Mar 17, 2026
The Map
Judiciary turns to the generic ballot as Little Rock watches
From Little Rock to the suburbs that decide Congress, the generic ballot is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 17, 2026
The Floor
The border supplemental hiding inside a border supplemental
Lawmakers spent March 17, 2026 arguing over a border supplemental, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Mar 17, 2026
West Wing
What 43 per cent in Tucson says about a late-night tariff threat
On March 17, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Mar 17, 2026
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside an election-deepfake statute
David Chen · Mar 17, 2026
The partisan week Washington overpromises the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Owen MacLeod · Mar 17, 2026
