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The Alliance

A Venezuela oil bargain: the view from the border

American statecraft on April 29, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Apr 29, 2026

Defense

A legal bargain over allied basing rights

Apr 29, 2026

Canada–U.S.

Manchester cannot look away from a dairy flare-up

Apr 29, 2026

Economy

A hot payrolls print: the view from Capitol Hill

Apr 29, 2026

Midterms

Bill 2494 and the problem of early-state enthusiasm

Apr 29, 2026

Congress

In Little Rock, a USMCA enforcement hammer stalls the map

Apr 29, 2026

White House

The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the mail-in ballot order

Apr 29, 2026

Industrial Policy

The dangerous week Washington regulates 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 · Apr 29, 2026

Drug Prices

GLP-1 coverage fights: the view from Foggy Bottom

American health policy leaks north. GLP-1 coverage fights are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Apr 28, 2026

The Strait

A continental bargain over a Venezuela cargo bet

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 28, 2026

The Border

What 40 per cent in Allentown says about 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.

Nadia Rahman · Apr 28, 2026

The Nine

The predictable week Washington shadow-dockets agency-deferral leftovers

The legal system is now a second front. Agency-deferral leftovers is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Apr 28, 2026

The Alliance

The China secondary-sanctions threat: the view from Foggy Bottom

American statecraft on April 28, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Apr 28, 2026

The War

In Toledo, the tanker war accelerates the map

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

Marcus Hale · Apr 28, 2026

The Borderline

Portland, Maine cannot look away from the softwood file

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

Sophie Tremblay · Apr 28, 2026

Markets

The September FOMC: the view from the border

The number that moved Washington on April 28, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Apr 28, 2026

The Map

Energy and Commerce turns to a special-election warning as Manchester watches

From Manchester to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Apr 28, 2026

The Floor

In Wilmington, a USMCA enforcement hammer stalls the map

Lawmakers spent April 28, 2026 arguing over a farm-state biofuels carve-out, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Apr 28, 2026

West Wing

What 41 per cent in Buffalo says about a sudden pardon rumour

On April 28, 2026, the presidency turned a sudden pardon rumour into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Apr 28, 2026

Industrial Policy

In Wilmington, platform liability onshores the map

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

David Chen · Apr 27, 2026

Drug Prices

Grand Rapids cannot look away from 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 · Apr 27, 2026

The Strait

What 51 per cent in Toledo says about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

A barrel at US$86 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.

Elena Voss · Apr 27, 2026

The Border

Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront 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.

Nadia Rahman · Apr 27, 2026

The Nine

The partisan week Washington upholds an emergency war-powers case

The legal system is now a second front. An emergency war-powers case is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Apr 27, 2026