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The Alliance

The intelligence panel turns to a UN corridor fight as Portland, Maine watches

American statecraft on September 6, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Sep 6, 2026

Defense

Omaha cannot look away from carrier-group math

Sep 6, 2026

Canada–U.S.

Bill 4032 and the problem of dollar-for-dollar tariffs

Sep 6, 2026

Economy

In Portland, Maine, shelter inflation cools the map

Sep 6, 2026

Midterms

Energy and Commerce turns to early-state enthusiasm as Fresno watches

Sep 6, 2026

Congress

Washington stays late on the farm bill leftovers

Sep 5, 2026

White House

Bill 4028 and the problem of a sudden pardon rumour

Sep 5, 2026

Industrial Policy

The TikTok residual: the view from Capitol Hill

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 · Sep 5, 2026

Drug Prices

Canada’s stake in a fentanyl precursor case just got larger

American health policy leaks north. A fentanyl precursor case is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Sep 5, 2026

The Strait

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: the view from the West Wing

A barrel at US$109 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Sep 5, 2026

The Border

Langley stays late on 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.

Elena Voss · Sep 5, 2026

The Nine

Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront 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 · Sep 5, 2026

The Alliance

Foggy Bottom stays late on the Iran coalition

American statecraft on September 5, 2026 treated the Iran coalition as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Sep 5, 2026

The War

Alberta’s oil patch confronts the tanker war

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

Marcus Hale · Sep 5, 2026

The Borderline

The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside the USMCA review

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 · Sep 5, 2026

Markets

The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the gasoline shock

The number that moved Washington on September 5, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Sep 5, 2026

The Map

In Savannah, a special-election warning narrows the map

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

Peter Lang · Sep 5, 2026

The Floor

What 40 per cent in Anchorage says about the debt-limit shadow play

Lawmakers spent September 4, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Sep 4, 2026

West Wing

The continental week Washington doubles down on the gasoline file

On September 4, 2026, the presidency turned the gasoline file into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Sep 4, 2026

Industrial Policy

The continental week Washington races 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 · Sep 4, 2026

Drug Prices

The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside 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 · Sep 4, 2026

The Strait

Quebec’s aluminum towns confront diesel inventories

A barrel at US$108 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Sep 4, 2026

The Border

A predictable bargain over 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 · Sep 4, 2026

The Nine

In Sioux Falls, the classified-documents fight fast-tracks the map

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 · Sep 4, 2026