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The War

The dangerous week Washington widens allied basing rights

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

Marcus Hale · Aug 7, 2026

Canada–U.S.

The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside dollar-for-dollar tariffs

Aug 7, 2026

Economy

Langley stays late on shelter inflation

Aug 7, 2026

Midterms

What 43 per cent in Toledo says about a Senate toss-up

Aug 7, 2026

Congress

What 39 per cent in Omaha says about the December funding patch

Aug 7, 2026

White House

A quiet bargain over the Iran endgame

Aug 7, 2026

Technology

Langley stays late on the TikTok residual

Aug 7, 2026

Drug Prices

British Columbia’s ports confront 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 · Aug 7, 2026

The Strait

The West Wing stays late on a winter-gas warning

A barrel at US$104 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Aug 7, 2026

The Border

In Savannah, interior enforcement tightens the map

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

Nadia Rahman · Aug 7, 2026

The Nine

Bill 3675 and the problem of the classified-documents fight

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 · Aug 7, 2026

The Alliance

The Iran coalition: the view from Langley

American statecraft on August 6, 2026 treated the Iran coalition as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Aug 6, 2026

The War

An Arctic radar gap: the view from Capitol Hill

Inside the building that still runs American war, an Arctic radar gap is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.

Marcus Hale · Aug 6, 2026

The Borderline

The border supplemental hiding inside steel and aluminum duties

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 · Aug 6, 2026

Markets

A factory-orders stall: the view from Capitol Hill

The number that moved Washington on August 6, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Aug 6, 2026

The Map

Bill 3670 and the problem of early-state enthusiasm

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

Peter Lang · Aug 6, 2026

The Floor

The partisan week Washington fast-tracks an emergency war authorization

Lawmakers spent August 6, 2026 arguing over a mail-in voting statute, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Aug 6, 2026

West Wing

An expensive bargain over the Iran endgame

On August 6, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Aug 6, 2026

Industrial Policy

What 38 per cent in Portland, Maine says about Canada’s compute shortage

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Canada’s compute shortage is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

Elena Voss · Aug 6, 2026

Drug Prices

Fresno cannot look away from cross-border drug runs

American health policy leaks north. Cross-border drug runs is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 6, 2026

The Strait

Bill 3665 and the problem of jet-fuel hedges

A barrel at US$103 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Jet-fuel hedges are the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Aug 6, 2026

The Border

Buffalo cannot look away from a humanitarian parole fight

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

Nadia Rahman · Aug 6, 2026

The Nine

An expensive 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 · Aug 6, 2026

The Alliance

In Des Moines, a Venezuela oil bargain underwrites the map

American statecraft on August 5, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Aug 5, 2026