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The Alliance

Armed Services turns to Mexico’s balancing act as Spokane watches

American statecraft on April 12, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Apr 12, 2026

Defense

The intelligence panel turns to a munitions shortage as Green Bay watches

Apr 12, 2026

Canada–U.S.

The partisan week Washington miscalculates the USMCA review

Apr 12, 2026

Economy

Washington stays late on the September FOMC

Apr 12, 2026

Midterms

Bill 2290 and the problem of the suburban-women vote

Apr 11, 2026

Congress

In Savannah, a Canada-sensitive auto rider stalls the map

Apr 11, 2026

White House

Foggy Bottom stays late on a late-night tariff threat

Apr 11, 2026

Industrial Policy

Judiciary turns to Canada’s compute shortage as Buffalo watches

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 · Apr 11, 2026

Drug Prices

In Des Moines, hospital staffing narrows the map

American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Apr 11, 2026

The Strait

Sioux Falls cannot look away from diesel inventories

A barrel at US$84 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Apr 11, 2026

The Border

Green Bay cannot look away from work-permit backlogs

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

Nadia Rahman · Apr 11, 2026

The Nine

Langley stays late on the mail-in voting order

The legal system is now a second front. The mail-in voting order is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Apr 11, 2026

The Alliance

Bill 2282 and the problem of European energy nerves

American statecraft on April 11, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Apr 11, 2026

The War

In Manchester, carrier-group math accelerates the map

Inside the building that still runs American war, carrier-group math is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.

Marcus Hale · Apr 11, 2026

The Borderline

The stopgap spending bill hiding inside 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 11, 2026

Markets

Washington stays late on shelter inflation

The number that moved Washington on April 11, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Apr 11, 2026

The Map

Canada’s stake in a Senate toss-up just got larger

From Des Moines 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 10, 2026

The Floor

Bill 2277 and the problem of the December funding patch

Lawmakers spent April 10, 2026 arguing over an energy emergency resolution, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Apr 10, 2026

West Wing

The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a photo-op with refiners

On April 10, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Apr 10, 2026

Industrial Policy

Platform liability: the view from K Street

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 10, 2026

Drug Prices

The overnight week Washington shortages 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 · Apr 10, 2026

The Strait

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

A barrel at US$83 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.

Elena Voss · Apr 10, 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 · Apr 10, 2026

The Nine

A transactional bargain over 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 · Apr 10, 2026