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EXPLAINER: Anand vows to disrupt the shadow fleet, and Ottawa has sanctioned no ship since June
A Russian drone struck a cargo ship off Odesa oblast overnight from September 22 to 23. Its Ukrainian captain died, according to the Ukrainian…

EXPLAINER: Washington knocked on Quebec’s door with aluminum, aiming at Ottawa’s table
Washington approached the Quebec government, Québecor’s media outlets reported on Friday, September 25, at noon. To talk tariffs. Without going through Ottawa.

ANALYSIS: Washington talks with Mexico without Ottawa, and the agenda swells from 54 to nearly 90 items
The fourth round of talks between Mexico and Washington would not take place the following week: Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Luis Rosendo Gutiérrez announced…

EXPLAINER: Trump bans 0.3% of Canadian imports, the weight of a warning
The United States will not add a tariff to Canadian whisky, whey or molasses: it will exclude them from its territory on Tuesday, September…

ANALYSIS: Trump shuts Greenland to Beijing and Moscow, and opens it to his planes up to Canada’s border
A gully runs across Tartupaluk from north to south, and the agreement signed on June 14, 2022, made it the land border between Canada…

ANALYSIS: Under tariffs, the boycott cracks on the road, planes win back only 3,581 returns
Statistics Canada released a number on September 22, 2026, that the industry had been awaiting for almost three years. In July, Canadians’ return trips…

FACT CHECK: Trump’s “millions” are false, and StatCan counts 154,614 fewer temporary residents
Donald Trump wrote on September 23, 2026, that Canada is “destroying itself.” In his telling, “millions” of people are getting in without checks.

FACT CHECK: Greer’s “last hour” doesn’t hold up, and the constraint Carney decried has no text
Jamieson Greer repeated on CNBC on September 25 that Canada had asked for relief on heavy trucks in the final hours of the August…

ANALYSIS: Five of nine key Senate races border Canada, and Trump’s tariffs weigh on them
Stacks of Canadian lumber in a lumberyard in Livonia, Michigan. The photo was taken in August. The Los Angeles Times ran it on September…