West Wing
The expensive week Washington orders the Canadian foil
On June 29, 2026, the presidency turned Canada into a foil in a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jun 29, 2026
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Foreign Relations turns to data-centre water fights as Toledo watches
Jun 29, 2026
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a vaccine-schedule fight
Jun 29, 2026
Canada’s stake in diesel inventories just got larger
Jun 29, 2026
Capitol Hill stays late on a Safe Third Country strain
Jun 29, 2026
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront the classified-documents fight
Jun 29, 2026
Langley stays late on Mexico’s balancing act
Jun 29, 2026
The War
A partisan bargain over an Arctic radar gap
Inside the building that still runs American war, an Arctic radar gap is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jun 29, 2026
The Borderline
Alberta’s oil patch confronts 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 · Jun 29, 2026
Markets
Shelter inflation: the view from Capitol Hill
The number that moved Washington on June 29, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jun 29, 2026
The Map
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts a Senate toss-up
From Spokane to the suburbs that decide Congress, a Senate toss-up is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jun 29, 2026
The Floor
What 52 per cent in Little Rock says about a border supplemental
Lawmakers spent June 28, 2026 arguing over a drug-price transparency act, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jun 28, 2026
West Wing
The Iran endgame: the view from Langley
On June 28, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jun 28, 2026
Industrial Policy
The intelligence panel turns to an election-deepfake statute as Allentown watches
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. An election-deepfake statute is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jun 28, 2026
Drug Prices
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside 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 · Jun 28, 2026
The Strait
The continental week Washington prices diesel inventories
A barrel at US$97 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jun 28, 2026
The Border
In Green Bay, the northern border narrative tightens the map
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — the northern border narrative — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Elena Voss · Jun 28, 2026
The Nine
Bill 3207 and the problem of a birthright petition
The legal system is now a second front. A birthright petition is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jun 28, 2026
The Alliance
The partisan week Washington courts a Venezuela oil bargain
American statecraft on June 28, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jun 28, 2026
Foreign Relations turns to the Canada spending file as Sioux Falls watches
Marcus Hale · Jun 28, 2026
The continental week Washington second-guesses small-business hiring
Thomas Bergeron · Jun 28, 2026
The an AI liability bill hiding inside an emergency war authorization
Amrita Shah · Jun 27, 2026