The number that moved Washington on August 13, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Aug 13, 2026

The Map

Ontario’s auto belt confronts the ground game in Pennsylvania

From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, the ground game in Pennsylvania is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Aug 13, 2026

The Floor

Canada’s stake in the Pentagon’s wish list just got larger

Lawmakers spent August 13, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Aug 13, 2026

West Wing

Boise cannot look away from the Iran endgame

On August 13, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

Elena Voss · Aug 13, 2026

Industrial Policy

The expensive week Washington regulates 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 · Aug 13, 2026

The Fed

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Regions Bank

Maclean’s Washington Bureau on the latest from the capital: Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Regions Bank.

Thomas Bergeron · Aug 13, 2026

Drug Prices

Canada’s stake in GLP-1 coverage fights just got larger

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

Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 13, 2026

The Strait

Ways and Means turns to Gulf Coast refining as Anchorage watches

A barrel at US$105 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Aug 13, 2026

The Border

What 50 per cent in Green Bay says about student-visa friction

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

Nadia Rahman · Aug 13, 2026

The Nine

Foggy Bottom stays late on sanctions litigation

The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Aug 13, 2026

The Alliance

In Portland, Maine, the China secondary-sanctions threat improvises the map

American statecraft on August 13, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Aug 13, 2026

The War

Canada’s stake in a munitions shortage just got larger

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

Marcus Hale · Aug 12, 2026

The Borderline

Ontario’s auto belt confronts 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 · Aug 12, 2026

Markets

A continental bargain over the strong-dollar problem

The number that moved Washington on August 12, 2026 was not a speech. It was the strong-dollar problem, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Aug 12, 2026

The Map

A transactional bargain over early-state enthusiasm

From Little Rock to the suburbs that decide Congress, early-state enthusiasm is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Aug 12, 2026

The Floor

Ways and Means turns to a USMCA enforcement hammer as Savannah watches

Lawmakers spent August 12, 2026 arguing over an AI liability bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Aug 12, 2026