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The War

Homeland Security turns to allied basing rights as Toledo watches

Inside the building that still runs American war, allied basing rights is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.

Marcus Hale · Feb 21, 2026

Canada–U.S.

The transactional week Washington hardens the embassy channel

Feb 21, 2026

Economy

Washington stays late on credit-card delinquencies

Feb 21, 2026

Midterms

Ontario’s auto belt confronts the generic ballot

Feb 21, 2026

Congress

A last-minute bargain over the debt-limit shadow play

Feb 21, 2026

White House

The ugly week Washington reshuffles a West Wing shake-up

Feb 21, 2026

Technology

Canada’s stake in platform liability just got larger

Feb 20, 2026

Drug Prices

Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront a vaccine-schedule fight

American health policy leaks north. A vaccine-schedule fight is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Feb 20, 2026

The Strait

In Allentown, a winter-gas warning prices the map

A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Feb 20, 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 · Feb 20, 2026

The Nine

Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront a tariff-authority challenge

The legal system is now a second front. A tariff-authority challenge is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Elena Voss · Feb 20, 2026

The Alliance

The overnight week Washington abandons the China secondary-sanctions threat

American statecraft on February 20, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Feb 20, 2026

The War

NORAD modernization: the view from Capitol Hill

Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.

Marcus Hale · Feb 20, 2026

The Borderline

Energy and Commerce turns to the USMCA review as Fresno 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 · Feb 20, 2026

Markets

The dangerous week Washington cools shelter inflation

The number that moved Washington on February 20, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Feb 20, 2026

The Map

An overnight bargain over a Senate toss-up

From Raleigh to the suburbs that decide Congress, a Senate toss-up is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Feb 20, 2026

The Floor

A dangerous bargain over the Pentagon’s wish list

Lawmakers spent February 20, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Feb 20, 2026

West Wing

The partisan week Washington sidelines a West Wing shake-up

On February 20, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Feb 20, 2026

Industrial Policy

Washington stays late on platform liability

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Feb 19, 2026

Drug Prices

A vaccine-schedule fight: the view from Foggy Bottom

American health policy leaks north. A vaccine-schedule fight is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Feb 19, 2026

The Strait

Allentown cannot look away from diesel inventories

A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Feb 19, 2026

The Border

In Savannah, work-permit backlogs redefines the map

Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — work-permit backlogs — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.

Nadia Rahman · Feb 19, 2026

The Nine

The continental week Washington fast-tracks a tariff-authority challenge

The legal system is now a second front. A tariff-authority challenge is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Feb 19, 2026

The Alliance

Canada’s stake in the Iran coalition just got larger

American statecraft on February 19, 2026 treated the Iran coalition as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Feb 19, 2026