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“I would expect the editor-in-chief of any major publication to understand this point,” jabbed one reader in a recent email. They were unhappy about some nuance in our reporting I had evidently missed. Then the sentence landed with a sharp elbow—“even if their background is in poetry, not public policy.” Ouch. But hey, fair. I did start in poetry. Which is another way of saying: I started in precarity. I wrote because I had to, and published where I could. I taught, I hustled, I applied for grants, and maybe—maybe—I found enough time and space to scratch out a few...

OTTAWA — After 10 years of constant growth, the federal government now says there are too many senior executives in the public service, slowing productivity and creating workplace conflicts. In an internal memo Wednesday obtained by National Post, the federal Chief Human Resources Officer Jacqueline Bogden is clear: there are more assistant deputy ministers (421) in the bureaucracy than permanent positions at that level (355). Now, the top human resources official says her office will be cracking down on the overage, an exceptional move after years of substantial growth of the...