The Strait
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts a Venezuela cargo bet
A barrel at US$104 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 12, 2026
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The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside CBP staffing at the 49th
Aug 12, 2026
A tariff-authority challenge: the view from Capitol Hill
Aug 12, 2026
The expensive week Washington splits Gulf shipping insurance
Aug 12, 2026
Armed Services turns to the Canada spending file as Spokane watches
Aug 11, 2026
The drug-price transparency act hiding inside the softwood file
Aug 11, 2026
A hot payrolls print: the view from K Street
Aug 11, 2026
The Map
Canada’s stake in the House battleground just got larger
From Tucson to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Aug 11, 2026
The Floor
Bill 3729 and the problem of the farm bill leftovers
Lawmakers spent August 11, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Aug 11, 2026
West Wing
Langley stays late on a West Wing shake-up
On August 11, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Aug 11, 2026
Industrial Policy
The northern border staffing measure hiding inside data-centre water fights
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Data-centre water fights are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Aug 11, 2026
Drug Prices
A quiet bargain over 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 · Aug 11, 2026
The Strait
The predictable week Washington rations the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
A barrel at US$104 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 11, 2026
The Border
What 46 per cent in Grand Rapids says about CBP staffing at the 49th
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — CBP staffing at the 49th — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 11, 2026
The Nine
Bill 3723 and the problem of 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 · Aug 11, 2026
The Alliance
Washington stays late on Mexico’s balancing act
American statecraft on August 10, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Aug 10, 2026
The War
K Street stays late on carrier-group math
Inside the building that still runs American war, carrier-group math is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Aug 10, 2026
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 · Aug 10, 2026
Markets
Canada’s stake in the gasoline shock just got larger
The number that moved Washington on August 10, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 10, 2026
