West Wing
The drug-price transparency act hiding inside the Iran endgame
On March 28, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
Elena Voss · Mar 28, 2026
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A last-minute bargain over data-centre water fights
Mar 28, 2026
In Raleigh, Medicare drug talks delays the map
Mar 28, 2026
What 45 per cent in Wilmington says about a winter-gas warning
Mar 28, 2026
In Sioux Falls, work-permit backlogs redefines the map
Mar 28, 2026
Canada’s stake in a Missouri map fight just got larger
Mar 28, 2026
Canada’s stake in European energy nerves just got larger
Mar 28, 2026
The War
Alberta’s oil patch confronts the Canada spending file
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Mar 28, 2026
The Borderline
The northern border stays late on cross-border data rules
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — cross-border data rules, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Mar 27, 2026
Markets
A transactional bargain over shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on March 27, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Mar 27, 2026
The Map
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the House battleground
From Buffalo to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 27, 2026
The Floor
Langley stays late on the farm bill leftovers
Lawmakers spent March 27, 2026 arguing over an AI liability bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Mar 27, 2026
West Wing
Capitol Hill stays late on a Cabinet loyalty test
On March 27, 2026, the presidency turned a Cabinet loyalty test into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Mar 27, 2026
Industrial Policy
What 49 per cent in Portland, Maine says about Canada’s compute shortage
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Canada’s compute shortage is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Mar 27, 2026
Drug Prices
Bill 2106 and the problem of hospital staffing
American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Mar 27, 2026
The Strait
What 52 per cent in Wilmington says about a Venezuela cargo bet
A barrel at US$81 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Mar 27, 2026
The Border
In Toledo, asylum clock rules exports the map
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — asylum clock rules — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Mar 27, 2026
The Nine
Little Rock cannot look away from 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.
Elena Voss · Mar 27, 2026
The Alliance
In Spokane, the China secondary-sanctions threat punishes the map
American statecraft on March 27, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Mar 27, 2026
