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.

Claire Fontaine · Mar 24, 2026

The Alliance

In Boise, European energy nerves courts the map

American statecraft on March 24, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Mar 24, 2026

The War

What 44 per cent in Buffalo says about NORAD modernization

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

Marcus Hale · Mar 23, 2026

The Borderline

Canada’s stake in a dairy flare-up just got larger

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

Sophie Tremblay · Mar 23, 2026

Markets

Langley stays late on credit-card delinquencies

The number that moved Washington on March 23, 2026 was not a speech. It was credit-card delinquencies, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Mar 23, 2026

The Map

Bill 2062 and the problem of mail-ballot rules

From Chattanooga to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Mar 23, 2026

The Floor

An overnight bargain over the debt-limit shadow play

Lawmakers spent March 23, 2026 arguing over a northern border staffing measure, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Mar 23, 2026

West Wing

A dangerous bargain over a late-night tariff threat

On March 23, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Mar 23, 2026

Industrial Policy

The dangerous week Washington onshores 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 · Mar 23, 2026

Drug Prices

Toledo cannot look away from hospital staffing

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

Rachel Okonkwo · Mar 23, 2026

The Strait

The defence production rewrite hiding inside the Hormuz risk premium

A barrel at US$80 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Mar 23, 2026

The Border

Banking turns to the northern border narrative as Buffalo watches

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

Nadia Rahman · Mar 23, 2026

The Nine

The unfinished week Washington rewrites 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 · Mar 23, 2026

The Alliance

Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts a Venezuela oil bargain

American statecraft on March 23, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Mar 23, 2026

The War

Canada’s stake in carrier-group math just got larger

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

Marcus Hale · Mar 22, 2026