Academics Misfire In Trying To Overcome Supposed “NIMBYism”

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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Brian Graff’s Substack: https://briangraff.substack.com/ Urban planning and housing affordability have risen near the top of domestic political issues in the last few years in both Canada and the US. There has been a corresponding rise in neoliberal YIMBYism and calls for liberalizing zoning and other regulation related

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It’s The U.S. That’s Broken, Not Canada

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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 in this country right now.” Poilievre never really defined what “everything” included or excluded, though he later posted “We can fix it” on social media with

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Electoral Reform Is Dead! Long Live Electoral Reform!

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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 know the difference.” American culture and movies, which dominate Canadian culture as well, tend to focus on the second part – having the courage to

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Death Of Merit In Canada? Eric Lombardi Misses The Target

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Brian Graff responds to Eric Lombardi’s piece “The death of merit, the birth of aristocracy, and Canada’s quiet descent into neofeudalism”, originally published in The Hub. Rube Goldberg was a famous cartoonist in the 1930s who created visions of crazy complicated machines that did simple tasks in an absurd, complex and roundabout way. I thought

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Whither Canada: Satellite or Independent Nation? (Full Speech)

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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 Canada speech, he used OCR to make it available for Canadians to read on Dominion Review! Here is the speech in full. Graff has highlighted key sentences and sections. You can find

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Whither Canada: Walter Gordon’s Forgotten 1960 Speech Still Relevant Today

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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 Canadians to read on Dominion Review! In this article, Graff provides some key background information and analysis of the speech. You can find the whole revived speech by clicking here.

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Canada’s Greatest Prime Minister: The Weirdo or Another Usual Suspect?

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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 way, like best Rock’n Roll Drummer or Worst Road in Ontario. There are a lot of such lists on the internet, including clickbait that suckers people

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