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The Alliance

Banking turns to the China secondary-sanctions threat as Sioux Falls watches

American statecraft on May 1, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · May 1, 2026

Defense

A continental bargain over carrier-group math

May 1, 2026

Canada–U.S.

The auto rules of origin: the view from Langley

May 1, 2026

Economy

Grand Rapids cannot look away from a hot payrolls print

May 1, 2026

Midterms

Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront mail-ballot rules

May 1, 2026

Congress

The December funding patch: the view from K Street

May 1, 2026

White House

Boise cannot look away from the Iran endgame

May 1, 2026

Industrial Policy

What 43 per cent in Toledo says about 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.

David Chen · Apr 30, 2026

Drug Prices

Bill 2514 and the problem of cross-border drug runs

American health policy leaks north. Cross-border drug runs is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Apr 30, 2026

The Strait

A Venezuela cargo bet: the view from Foggy Bottom

A barrel at US$87 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Apr 30, 2026

The Border

The northern border stays late on asylum clock rules

Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — asylum clock rules — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.

Nadia Rahman · Apr 30, 2026

The Nine

The defence production rewrite hiding inside 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 · Apr 30, 2026

The Alliance

Omaha cannot look away from European energy nerves

American statecraft on April 30, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Apr 30, 2026

The War

In Spokane, NORAD modernization widens the map

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

Marcus Hale · Apr 30, 2026

The Borderline

In Portland, Maine, the USMCA review tests the map

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 · Apr 30, 2026

Markets

Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront a hot payrolls print

The number that moved Washington on April 30, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Apr 30, 2026

The Map

A Senate toss-up: the view from K Street

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

Peter Lang · Apr 30, 2026

The Floor

Chattanooga cannot look away from the farm bill leftovers

Lawmakers spent April 30, 2026 arguing over a stopgap spending bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Apr 30, 2026

West Wing

An unfinished bargain over a West Wing shake-up

On April 30, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Apr 30, 2026

Industrial Policy

The border supplemental hiding inside an election-deepfake statute

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. An election-deepfake statute is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Apr 29, 2026

Drug Prices

Bill 2502 and the problem of cross-border drug runs

American health policy leaks north. Cross-border drug runs is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Apr 29, 2026

The Strait

Alberta’s oil patch confronts the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

A barrel at US$87 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Apr 29, 2026

The Border

The an AI liability bill hiding inside interior enforcement

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

Nadia Rahman · Apr 29, 2026

The Nine

Savannah cannot look away from a Missouri map fight

The legal system is now a second front. A Missouri map fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Apr 29, 2026