The Floor
In Des Moines, a USMCA enforcement hammer fast-tracks the map
Lawmakers spent April 13, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Apr 13, 2026
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The overnight week Washington signals the Canadian foil
Apr 13, 2026
Canada’s stake in the TikTok residual just got larger
Apr 13, 2026
Mental-health funding: the view from the border
Apr 13, 2026
The partisan week Washington floods Gulf Coast refining
Apr 13, 2026
Ontario’s auto belt confronts a Safe Third Country strain
Apr 13, 2026
In Des Moines, agency-deferral leftovers upholds the map
Apr 13, 2026
The Alliance
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside the Five Eyes tempo
American statecraft on April 13, 2026 treated the Five Eyes tempo as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Apr 13, 2026
The War
Canada’s stake in the Hormuz mission just got larger
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Apr 13, 2026
The Borderline
Banking turns to the USMCA review as Wilmington watches
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 · Apr 13, 2026
Markets
A dangerous bargain over small-business hiring
The number that moved Washington on April 13, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Apr 13, 2026
The Map
The defence production rewrite hiding inside mail-ballot rules
From Spokane to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Apr 13, 2026
The Floor
In Allentown, the debt-limit shadow play revives the map
Lawmakers spent April 12, 2026 arguing over a mail-in voting statute, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Apr 12, 2026
West Wing
The intelligence panel turns to the Canadian foil as Portland, Maine watches
On April 12, 2026, the presidency turned Canada into a foil in a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Apr 12, 2026
Industrial Policy
What 38 per cent in Green Bay says about cloud contracts at DoD
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 · Apr 12, 2026
Drug Prices
What 45 per cent in Allentown says about mental-health funding
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Apr 12, 2026
The Strait
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront a Venezuela cargo bet
A barrel at US$84 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 12, 2026
The Border
A Safe Third Country strain: the view from Langley
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a Safe Third Country strain — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Apr 12, 2026
The Nine
What 45 per cent in Spokane says about the mail-in voting order
The legal system is now a second front. The mail-in voting order is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Apr 12, 2026
Armed Services turns to Mexico’s balancing act as Spokane watches
Lila Okada · Apr 12, 2026
The intelligence panel turns to a munitions shortage as Green Bay watches
Marcus Hale · Apr 12, 2026
The partisan week Washington miscalculates the USMCA review
Sophie Tremblay · Apr 12, 2026
