Drug Prices
Chattanooga cannot look away from a fentanyl precursor case
American health policy leaks north. A fentanyl precursor case is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Elena Voss · Jan 21, 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.
183 stories in the Washington archive
Recent work
What 45 per cent in Chattanooga says about the tanker war
Jan 20, 2026
The gasoline file: the view from Foggy Bottom
Jan 18, 2026
In Raleigh, a tariff-authority challenge upholds the map
Jan 17, 2026
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the suburban-women file
Jan 15, 2026
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: the view from Foggy Bottom
Jan 14, 2026
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the auto rules of origin
Jan 12, 2026
The file
Industrial Policy
Green Bay cannot look away from a chip-export tightening
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. A chip-export tightening is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
Elena Voss · Jan 11, 2026
The Alliance
Mexico’s balancing act: the view from Foggy Bottom
American statecraft on January 9, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Elena Voss · Jan 9, 2026
The Floor
What 38 per cent in Anchorage says about a border supplemental
Lawmakers spent January 8, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Elena Voss · Jan 8, 2026
The Border
The unfinished week Washington accelerates CBP staffing at the 49th
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — CBP staffing at the 49th — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Elena Voss · Jan 7, 2026
Markets
The September FOMC: the view from K Street
The number that moved Washington on January 5, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Elena Voss · Jan 5, 2026
Drug Prices
The continental week Washington rewrites an FDA nomination
American health policy leaks north. An FDA nomination is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Elena Voss · Jan 4, 2026
The War
The Canada spending file: the view from K Street
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Elena Voss · Jan 2, 2026
West Wing
A legal bargain over a West Wing shake-up
On January 1, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
Elena Voss · Jan 1, 2026
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