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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

Kevin Page

Kevin Page was Canada’s first parliamentary budget officer. He is the current Jean-Luc Pépin Research Chair on Canadian Government at the University of Ottawa.

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Watching the Numbers

My fight to set up Parliament’s first budget office January | February 2014
In March 2008 I became Canada’s first parliamentary budget officer. It was a great honour. Truth be told, I did not want that honour. I do not think most governments want more accountability. They talk the game but they do not walk the walk. This is true of the current Conservative government. It was the best five years of my public…