The Nine
A quiet 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 24, 2026
2026
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What 44 per cent in Raleigh says about European energy nerves
Jan 24, 2026
Washington stays late on the tanker war
Jan 24, 2026
Canada’s stake in steel and aluminum duties just got larger
Jan 24, 2026
Shelter inflation: the view from Capitol Hill
Jan 23, 2026
Canada’s stake in the House battleground just got larger
Jan 23, 2026
The farm bill leftovers: the view from K Street
Jan 23, 2026
West Wing
What 43 per cent in Buffalo says about a late-night tariff threat
On January 23, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 23, 2026
Industrial Policy
Canada’s stake in cloud contracts at DoD just got larger
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 · Jan 23, 2026
Drug Prices
The border supplemental hiding inside cross-border drug runs
American health policy leaks north. Cross-border drug runs is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jan 23, 2026
The Strait
The partisan week Washington empties Gulf Coast refining
A barrel at US$76 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jan 23, 2026
The Border
British Columbia’s ports confront 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 · Jan 23, 2026
The Nine
A legal bargain over 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 · Jan 23, 2026
The Alliance
In Toledo, the Iran coalition loses the map
American statecraft on January 23, 2026 treated the Iran coalition as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jan 23, 2026
The War
Canada’s stake in the Canada spending file just got larger
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 23, 2026
The Borderline
The West Wing 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 · Jan 22, 2026
Markets
What 40 per cent in Portland, Maine says about shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on January 22, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Elena Voss · Jan 22, 2026
The Map
Bill 1354 and the problem of the suburban-women vote
From Boise to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jan 22, 2026
The Floor
An emergency war authorization: the view from Capitol Hill
Lawmakers spent January 22, 2026 arguing over a northern border staffing measure, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 22, 2026
