The Borderline
K Street stays late on a dairy flare-up
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — a dairy flare-up, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jan 15, 2026
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The September FOMC: the view from Langley
Jan 15, 2026
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the suburban-women file
Jan 15, 2026
Canada’s stake in the Pentagon’s wish list just got larger
Jan 15, 2026
The northern border staffing measure hiding inside the mail-in ballot order
Jan 15, 2026
Washington stays late on an election-deepfake statute
Jan 15, 2026
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside cross-border drug runs
Jan 15, 2026
The Strait
Judiciary turns to Canadian heavy crude as Sioux Falls watches
A barrel at US$76 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jan 15, 2026
The Border
Spokane cannot look away from interior enforcement
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jan 15, 2026
The Nine
Boise cannot look away from sanctions litigation
The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jan 15, 2026
The Alliance
The legal week Washington recalculates European energy nerves
American statecraft on January 15, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jan 15, 2026
The War
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront NORAD modernization
Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 14, 2026
The Borderline
Cross-border data rules: the view from Foggy Bottom
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — cross-border data rules, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jan 14, 2026
Markets
Ways and Means turns to a hot payrolls print as Boise watches
The number that moved Washington on January 14, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 14, 2026
The Map
Anchorage cannot look away from mail-ballot rules
From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jan 14, 2026
The Floor
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront the debt-limit shadow play
Lawmakers spent January 14, 2026 arguing over a mail-in voting statute, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 14, 2026
West Wing
Grand Rapids cannot look away from the Iran endgame
On January 14, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 14, 2026
Industrial Policy
Energy and Commerce turns to cloud contracts at DoD as Toledo watches
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 14, 2026
Drug Prices
Ontario’s auto belt confronts 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 14, 2026
