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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

Elsbeth Heaman

Elsbeth Heaman is associate professor of history and classical studies at McGill University and the interim director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Her book Tax, Order and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada (1867-1917) (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017).

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Elsbeth Heaman

Tax and the Canadian Psyche

Elsbeth Heaman in conversation with Shirley Tillotson November 2017
Tax rage has been in the spotlight this fall ever since the federal government first proposed tax reforms relating to corporations. Before long, the debate had gone from how the changes would affect farmers and convenience-store owners to whether Finance Minister Bill Morneau stood to benefit personally and had acted appropriately, to whether the ethics commissioner had done her…