West Wing
Foggy Bottom stays late on a late-night tariff threat
On April 11, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Apr 11, 2026
2026
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Judiciary turns to Canada’s compute shortage as Buffalo watches
Apr 11, 2026
In Des Moines, hospital staffing narrows the map
Apr 11, 2026
Sioux Falls cannot look away from diesel inventories
Apr 11, 2026
Green Bay cannot look away from work-permit backlogs
Apr 11, 2026
Langley stays late on the mail-in voting order
Apr 11, 2026
Bill 2282 and the problem of European energy nerves
Apr 11, 2026
The War
In Manchester, carrier-group math accelerates the map
Inside the building that still runs American war, carrier-group math is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Apr 11, 2026
The Borderline
The stopgap spending bill hiding inside 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 · Apr 11, 2026
Markets
Washington stays late on shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on April 11, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Apr 11, 2026
The Map
Canada’s stake in a Senate toss-up just got larger
From Des Moines to the suburbs that decide Congress, a Senate toss-up is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Apr 10, 2026
The Floor
Bill 2277 and the problem of the December funding patch
Lawmakers spent April 10, 2026 arguing over an energy emergency resolution, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Apr 10, 2026
West Wing
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a photo-op with refiners
On April 10, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Apr 10, 2026
Industrial Policy
Platform liability: the view from K Street
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Apr 10, 2026
Drug Prices
The overnight week Washington shortages Medicare drug talks
American health policy leaks north. Medicare drug talks are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Apr 10, 2026
The Strait
What 51 per cent in Spokane says about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
A barrel at US$83 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Elena Voss · Apr 10, 2026
The Border
Canada’s stake in asylum clock rules just got larger
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — asylum clock rules — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Apr 10, 2026
The Nine
A transactional bargain over 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 · Apr 10, 2026
The Alliance
The West Wing stays late on a Venezuela oil bargain
American statecraft on April 10, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Apr 10, 2026
The an AI liability bill hiding inside the strong-dollar problem
Thomas Bergeron · Apr 10, 2026
Foreign Relations turns to the debt-limit shadow play as Boise watches
Amrita Shah · Apr 9, 2026