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Oil & Power

Trump calls Iranian plan to reopen Strait of Hormuz not 'acceptable'

Maclean’s Washington Bureau on the latest from the capital: Trump calls Iranian plan to reopen Strait of Hormuz not 'acceptable'.

Owen MacLeod · Sep 26, 2026

Defense

Hormuz math does not care about a UN reception

Sep 21, 2026

Economy

Oil will stay expensive even if a tanker gets through

Sep 20, 2026

Economy

Shelter inflation is the print the campaign cannot tariff away

Sep 18, 2026

Energy

A 100-per-cent tariff on Russian barrels will not fill a Canadian rack

Sep 17, 2026

World

Hormuz is still a daily wager, not a closed file

Sep 14, 2026

Economy

Inflation at 3.4 per cent is the quiet verdict on the second term

Sep 14, 2026

Industrial Policy

A transactional bargain over 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.

David Chen · Sep 11, 2026

Drug Prices

Spokane cannot look away from 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 11, 2026

The Strait

The drug-price transparency act hiding inside jet-fuel hedges

A barrel at US$110 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Jet-fuel hedges are the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Sep 11, 2026

The Border

The ugly week Washington miscounts the northern border narrative

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

Nadia Rahman · Sep 11, 2026

The Nine

British Columbia’s ports confront a tariff-authority challenge

The legal system is now a second front. A tariff-authority challenge is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Sep 11, 2026

The Alliance

The Iran coalition: the view from the West Wing

American statecraft on September 11, 2026 treated the Iran coalition as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Sep 11, 2026

The War

Bill 4093 and the problem of 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 11, 2026

The Borderline

In Little Rock, the USMCA review miscalculates the map

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.

Elena Voss · Sep 11, 2026

Markets

Canada’s stake in a factory-orders stall just got larger

The number that moved Washington on September 11, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Sep 11, 2026

The Map

The defence production rewrite hiding inside a special-election warning

From Portland, Maine 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 11, 2026

The Floor

The transactional week Washington stalls the Pentagon’s wish list

Lawmakers spent September 11, 2026 arguing over an AI liability bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Sep 11, 2026

West Wing

A last-minute bargain over a photo-op with refiners

On September 10, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Sep 10, 2026

Industrial Policy

Washington stays late on 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 · Sep 10, 2026

Drug Prices

What 47 per cent in Green Bay says about hospital staffing

American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Sep 10, 2026

The Strait

Washington stays late on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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 10, 2026

The Border

Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront 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 · Sep 10, 2026

The Nine

The classified-documents fight: the view from the West Wing

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 10, 2026