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The Alliance

K Street stays late on European energy nerves

American statecraft on June 25, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Jun 25, 2026

Defense

Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts the Canada spending file

Jun 25, 2026

Canada–U.S.

The transactional week Washington tests steel and aluminum duties

Jun 25, 2026

Economy

New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts a hot payrolls print

Jun 25, 2026

Midterms

The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside a Senate toss-up

Jun 25, 2026

Congress

British Columbia’s ports confront the debt-limit shadow play

Jun 24, 2026

White House

The intelligence panel turns to a Cabinet loyalty test as Sioux Falls watches

Jun 24, 2026

Industrial Policy

The legal week Washington weaponizes 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.

David Chen · Jun 24, 2026

Drug Prices

Bill 3162 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 · Jun 24, 2026

The Strait

The legal week Washington reroutes a Venezuela cargo bet

A barrel at US$96 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Jun 24, 2026

The Border

The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside student-visa friction

Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — student-visa friction — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.

Nadia Rahman · Jun 24, 2026

The Nine

Banking turns to a birthright petition as Wilmington watches

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 · Jun 24, 2026

The Alliance

Langley stays late on the Iran coalition

American statecraft on June 24, 2026 treated the Iran coalition as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Jun 24, 2026

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

The Borderline

The USMCA enforcement package hiding inside the auto rules of origin

The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the auto rules of origin, seen from both sides of the border.

Sophie Tremblay · Jun 24, 2026

Markets

A last-minute bargain over the gasoline shock

The number that moved Washington on June 24, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Jun 24, 2026

The Map

In Anchorage, the House battleground explodes the map

From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Jun 24, 2026

The Floor

What 45 per cent in Savannah says about a Canada-sensitive auto rider

Lawmakers spent June 23, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Jun 23, 2026

West Wing

Green Bay cannot look away from a West Wing shake-up

On June 23, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Jun 23, 2026

Industrial Policy

Canada’s stake in Canada’s compute shortage just got larger

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 · Jun 23, 2026

Drug Prices

What 42 per cent in Manchester says about 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 · Jun 23, 2026

The Strait

Allentown cannot look away from Canadian heavy crude

A barrel at US$96 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Jun 23, 2026

The Border

The legal week Washington accelerates a Safe Third Country strain

Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a Safe Third Country strain — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.

Nadia Rahman · Jun 23, 2026

The Nine

The USMCA enforcement package hiding inside 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 · Jun 23, 2026