The number that moved Washington on July 2, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Jul 2, 2026

The Map

The predictable week Washington reorders the House battleground

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

Peter Lang · Jul 2, 2026

The Floor

The defence production rewrite hiding inside a USMCA enforcement hammer

Lawmakers spent July 2, 2026 arguing over a defence production rewrite, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Jul 2, 2026

West Wing

Canada’s stake in the mail-in ballot order just got larger

On July 1, 2026, the presidency turned the mail-in ballot order into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Jul 1, 2026

Industrial Policy

The quiet week Washington onshores 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 · Jul 1, 2026

Drug Prices

Bill 3246 and the problem of mental-health funding

American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Jul 1, 2026

The Strait

Jet-fuel hedges: the view from Langley

A barrel at US$97 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Jet-fuel hedges are the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Jul 1, 2026

The Border

Savannah cannot look away from 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 · Jul 1, 2026

The Nine

The dangerous week Washington upholds 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 · Jul 1, 2026

The Alliance

The expensive week Washington courts the China secondary-sanctions threat

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

Elena Voss · Jul 1, 2026

The War

The tanker war: the view from K Street

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

Marcus Hale · Jul 1, 2026

The Borderline

Steel and aluminum duties: the view from Capitol Hill

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

Sophie Tremblay · Jul 1, 2026

Markets

The intelligence panel turns to a factory-orders stall as Boise watches

The number that moved Washington on July 1, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Jul 1, 2026

The Map

The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the suburban-women vote

From Des Moines to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Jul 1, 2026

The Floor

Foggy Bottom stays late on a Canada-sensitive auto rider

Lawmakers spent July 1, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Jul 1, 2026

West Wing

What 41 per cent in Tucson says about a West Wing shake-up

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

James Whitfield · Jun 30, 2026