Academics Misfire In Trying To Overcome Supposed “NIMBYism”
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Brian Graff’s Substack: https://briangraff.substack.com/ Urban planning and housing affordability...
What’s Densification Got To Do With It?
TINA! When I write “TINA!”, likely the first thought to enter any reader’s mind will be Tina Turner. Mind you, the title above would skew things even more....
There Are Two Kinds Of People
There is a witty one liner that “There are two types of people in the world: Those who divide the people in the world into two types, and those who don’t”...
It’s The U.S. That’s Broken, Not Canada
It is hard to believe that it was way back in November 2022 that Pierre Poilievre, during a press conference, first claimed that “it feels like everything is broken...
Electoral Reform Is Dead! Long Live Electoral Reform!
You may be familiar with the Serenity Prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to...
Death Of Merit In Canada? Eric Lombardi Misses The Target
Brian Graff responds to Eric Lombardi’s piece “The death of merit, the birth of aristocracy, and Canada’s quiet descent into neofeudalism”,...
Did Canada Ever Really Have An “Immigration Consensus”?
Editor’s note: The man in the cover image of this article is Daniel Stoffman (1945-2023), the author of Who Gets In – the book which Brian Graff analyzes...
Whither Canada: Satellite or Independent Nation? (Full Speech)
Whither Canada: Satellite or Independent Nation? (Full Speech) Editor’s note: When Brian Graff realized there was no digital version of Walter Gordon’s Whither...
Whither Canada: Walter Gordon’s Forgotten 1960 Speech Still Relevant Today
Editor’s note: When Brian Graff realized there was no digital version of Walter Gordon’s Whither Canada speech, he used OCR to make it available for...
Canada’s Greatest Prime Minister: The Weirdo or Another Usual Suspect?
People love talking about lists. I don’t mean shopping lists or other mundane lists, but the ones where something or someone is ranked as best or worst in some...