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 […]
Death Of Merit In Canada? Eric Lombardi Misses The Target Read More »
Canadians are frequently told that continuous growth is just what their country needs. But when surveyed, they have never expressed a craving for it. They want safe communities, access to nature, equality and the rule of law. They place greater value on quality of life than on a larger economy. However, contrary to what Canadians
Recent Polls Show That Canadians Are Getting Exactly What They Don’t Want Read More »
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 in this piece. You can purchase this book here. Like many homes, mine has several bookcases. I last moved about 15 years ago and frankly, I would
Did Canada Ever Really Have An “Immigration Consensus”? Read More »
Imagine, if you will: you are driving back from a Christmas party with friends on December 23rd, the day before Christmas Eve. It has been an academically challenging semester, and you really enjoyed spending time destressing during an evening chatting with friends. You drop off a friend who lives close by you – choosing to
The Soft Economic Cost of Toronto’s Speed Cameras Read More »
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
Whither Canada: Satellite or Independent Nation? (Full Speech) Read More »
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.
Whither Canada: Walter Gordon’s Forgotten 1960 Speech Still Relevant Today Read More »
Much has happened since I last visited a column of my unfiltered thoughts upon the good people of this town. A fierce snowstorm blanketed our unsuspecting Dominion, seeking and destroying house pipes with surgical precision. Our Prime Minister took a much-needed break from surfing in stormy Tofino, to luxuriate instead in the clear-blue waters of
If it Ain’t Woke, Don’t Fix it Read More »
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
Canada’s Greatest Prime Minister: The Weirdo or Another Usual Suspect? Read More »
Short lived were the days of the mid-2010s where wokeness could be portrayed as a new phenomenon mostly confined to college campuses. Conservatives realized it wasn’t true that the blue-haired Social Justice Warriors of viral YouTube clips would soon be meeting ‘the real world’, with its lack of safe spaces – ‘the real world’ was
Betrayal and Deceit Read More »
To me, the Toronto Public Library is an “essential service” since I borrow so many books. This is hardly surprising when my father and my stepfather each ran public library systems in Toronto a few decades back. The TPL has been the victim of a ransomware attack for over a month, with no backup system
My Reviews of Two Ancient Canadian Books Read More »
