The Borderline
In Sioux Falls, steel and aluminum duties reopens the map
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — steel and aluminum duties, seen from both sides of the border.
Elena Voss · Jul 4, 2026
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Elena Voss
Elena Voss runs the Maclean’s Washington Bureau. She previously covered Parliament Hill and the U.S. State Department, and writes on the alliance, the presidency and the Canadian interest in American power.
177 stories in the Washington archive
Recent work
Green Bay cannot look away from Canada’s compute shortage
Jul 2, 2026
The expensive week Washington courts the China secondary-sanctions threat
Jul 1, 2026
A partisan bargain over the farm bill leftovers
Jun 29, 2026
In Green Bay, the northern border narrative tightens the map
Jun 28, 2026
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the September FOMC
Jun 27, 2026
Bill 3174 and the problem of an FDA nomination
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The file
The War
An ugly bargain over the tanker war
Inside the building that still runs American war, the tanker war is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Elena Voss · Jun 24, 2026
West Wing
A last-minute bargain over the gasoline file
On June 22, 2026, the presidency turned the gasoline file into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
Elena Voss · Jun 22, 2026
The Nine
What 49 per cent in Little Rock says about sanctions litigation
The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Elena Voss · Jun 21, 2026
The Map
Capitol Hill stays late on a special-election warning
From Tucson to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Elena Voss · Jun 19, 2026
The Strait
The unfinished week Washington floods Gulf Coast refining
A barrel at US$95 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.
Elena Voss · Jun 18, 2026
The Borderline
What 42 per cent in Savannah says about 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.
Elena Voss · Jun 17, 2026
Industrial Policy
Langley stays late on the TikTok residual
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. The TikTok residual is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
Elena Voss · Jun 15, 2026
The Alliance
Canada’s stake in a UN corridor fight just got larger
American statecraft on June 14, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Elena Voss · Jun 14, 2026
The Floor
A last-minute bargain over the Pentagon’s wish list
Lawmakers spent June 12, 2026 arguing over a drug-price transparency act, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Elena Voss · Jun 12, 2026
The Border
Ontario’s auto belt confronts a humanitarian parole fight
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a humanitarian parole fight — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Elena Voss · Jun 11, 2026
Markets
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront small-business hiring
The number that moved Washington on June 9, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Elena Voss · Jun 9, 2026
Drug Prices
Grand Rapids cannot look away from Medicare drug talks
American health policy leaks north. Medicare drug talks are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Elena Voss · Jun 8, 2026
The War
Alberta’s oil patch confronts NORAD modernization
Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Elena Voss · Jun 6, 2026
West Wing
The overnight week Washington signals a West Wing shake-up
On June 5, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
Elena Voss · Jun 5, 2026
The Nine
Washington stays late on 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.
Elena Voss · Jun 4, 2026
The Map
An unfinished bargain over the suburban-women vote
From Savannah to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Elena Voss · Jun 2, 2026
The Strait
Alberta’s oil patch confronts the Hormuz risk premium
A barrel at US$92 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.
Elena Voss · Jun 1, 2026
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