The Floor
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront the December funding patch
Lawmakers spent May 6, 2026 arguing over a defence production rewrite, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · May 6, 2026
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Buffalo cannot look away from a photo-op with refiners
May 6, 2026
Canada’s stake in an election-deepfake statute just got larger
May 6, 2026
The West Wing stays late on GLP-1 coverage fights
May 6, 2026
Banking turns to a winter-gas warning as Toledo watches
May 5, 2026
Canada’s stake in student-visa friction just got larger
May 5, 2026
Canada’s stake in a Missouri map fight just got larger
May 5, 2026
The Alliance
What 52 per cent in Green Bay says about the Five Eyes tempo
American statecraft on May 5, 2026 treated the Five Eyes tempo as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · May 5, 2026
The War
NORAD modernization: the view from Capitol Hill
Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · May 5, 2026
The Borderline
The USMCA review: the view from K Street
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 · May 5, 2026
Markets
Canada’s stake in a hot payrolls print just got larger
The number that moved Washington on May 5, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 5, 2026
The Map
K Street stays late on the ground game in Pennsylvania
From Portland, Maine to the suburbs that decide Congress, the ground game in Pennsylvania is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · May 5, 2026
The Floor
The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside the December funding patch
Lawmakers spent May 5, 2026 arguing over a sanctions package aimed at Tehran, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · May 5, 2026
West Wing
The northern border staffing measure hiding inside the mail-in ballot order
On May 5, 2026, the presidency turned the mail-in ballot order into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · May 5, 2026
Industrial Policy
Armed Services turns to the AI safety rulebook as Raleigh watches
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. The AI safety rulebook is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · May 5, 2026
Drug Prices
Mental-health funding: the view from the border
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Elena Voss · May 4, 2026
The Strait
Savannah cannot look away from jet-fuel hedges
A barrel at US$88 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Jet-fuel hedges are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · May 4, 2026
The Border
Judiciary turns to work-permit backlogs as Raleigh watches
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — work-permit backlogs — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · May 4, 2026
The Nine
Langley stays late on the classified-documents fight
The legal system is now a second front. The classified-documents fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · May 4, 2026
Homeland Security turns to allied basing rights as Des Moines watches
Marcus Hale · May 4, 2026
Banking turns to dollar-for-dollar tariffs as Raleigh watches
Sophie Tremblay · May 4, 2026
