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The Alliance

Ontario’s auto belt confronts European energy nerves

American statecraft on July 28, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Jul 28, 2026

Defense

Allied basing rights: the view from K Street

Jul 28, 2026

Canada–U.S.

Canada’s stake in the auto rules of origin just got larger

Jul 28, 2026

Economy

Washington stays late on a factory-orders stall

Jul 28, 2026

Midterms

In Anchorage, the generic ballot freezes the map

Jul 28, 2026

Congress

The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside the debt-limit shadow play

Jul 28, 2026

White House

What 42 per cent in Fresno says about a photo-op with refiners

Jul 28, 2026

Industrial Policy

Bill 3559 and the problem of the AI safety rulebook

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. The AI safety rulebook is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Jul 28, 2026

Drug Prices

Bill 3558 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 28, 2026

The Strait

A last-minute bargain over a Venezuela cargo bet

A barrel at US$102 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Jul 28, 2026

The Border

Bill 3556 and the problem of interior enforcement

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

Nadia Rahman · Jul 27, 2026

The Nine

The an AI liability bill hiding inside 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 · Jul 27, 2026

The Alliance

Quebec’s aluminum towns confront a Venezuela oil bargain

American statecraft on July 27, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Jul 27, 2026

The War

Capitol Hill stays late on carrier-group math

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

Marcus Hale · Jul 27, 2026

The Borderline

What 44 per cent in Toledo says about the auto rules of origin

The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the auto rules of origin, seen from both sides of the border.

Sophie Tremblay · Jul 27, 2026

Markets

The partisan week Washington cools the gasoline shock

The number that moved Washington on July 27, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Jul 27, 2026

The Map

A special-election warning: the view from the West Wing

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

Peter Lang · Jul 27, 2026

The Floor

The debt-limit shadow play: the view from K Street

Lawmakers spent July 27, 2026 arguing over an AI liability bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Jul 27, 2026

West Wing

Bill 3548 and the problem of the Iran endgame

On July 27, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

Elena Voss · Jul 27, 2026

Industrial Policy

In Toledo, cloud contracts at DoD audit the map

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Jul 27, 2026

Drug Prices

Chattanooga cannot look away from 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 27, 2026

The Strait

An unfinished bargain over a winter-gas warning

A barrel at US$102 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Jul 27, 2026

The Border

What 48 per cent in Des Moines says about 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 · Jul 26, 2026

The Nine

The defence production rewrite hiding inside agency-deferral leftovers

The legal system is now a second front. Agency-deferral leftovers is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Jul 26, 2026