Brian Graff

Here is my latest piece on housing issues and densification.

Why Isn't Densification Making Housing Cheaper? | Dominion Review Housing affordability has been the major issue impacting average Canadians ever since the Covid pandemic has declined in importance. For around two decades, ...

So... I always wanted to be a cartoonist, but lately I have had a few ideas for Bizarro and dan Piraro took a couple, and made them even better.
This is in this weekend's Star and other papers...
He also sends out a weekly email and gave me some of the credit!
What is funnier is that the witness looks something like me.
https://www.bizarro.com/blog/2024/9/22/not-a-post

As a kid, I wanted to be a cartoonist, because of the Warner brothers cartoons but mainly Charles M Shulz's Peanuts.
My ability to draw didn't develop very far after Grade 6...
And frankly, cartoons got boring after the brilliance of Doonesbury, Calvin & Hobbes, Herman and The Far Side at their peak.
Bizarro is one of the few strips I bother to read... and I propose a few gags now and then to Dan Piraro, but this is the first one that he ran with.
(However, I wanted him to use the name Bunnyman).
And if northing else, it is fun looking for the secret symbols - see https://www.bizarro.com/

A lovely conversation, worth listening to.

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins Discuss Science, Religion & Evolution Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with evolutionary biologist and author of The Genetic Book of the Dead, Richard Dawkins.Go to https://ground.news/startalk to s...

I am a fan of electoral reform to use Australian style ranked choice voting.
But here is an interesting proposal STAR voting.

A Voter's Guide A voter's guide to STAR Voting

This was unexpected... I play Wordle and got it on the first try with my usual word.

Should I change my usual word, since it will never be first again as it won't ge reused?

Wordle 1,035 1/6

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I received a message from FB about - but then they don't actually give you a link to which post they found to be false. This seems to be about climate change but my views are fairly conventional - so I'm mystified.

False information found in your post
Independent fact-checkers at Science Feedback say information in your post is partly false. To stop the spread of false news, we've added a notice to your post.
People who repeatedly share false information might have their posts moved lower in News Feed so other people are less likely to see them.

Trudeau is unwilling to admit that he is now the issue hurting his party, and he should quit, and/or that he needs a major change in direction.
AND the real problem is his high Century Initiative based immigration policy and post-nationalism.
- Housing and rent - too many people
- GDP/capita falling - more people than capital
- Congestion/infrastructure - can't keep up with population
- Healthcare - partly the provinces, but demand outstrips doctors
- Protests in the streets - postnationalism and multiculturalism instead of integration.
- CO2/GHGs - more people equals more emissions
- Low wages and underemployment - brining in educated immigrants and TFWs means underemployment and low wages.

The only people happy are corporate Canada - who make out well.
The Century Initiative donors aren't laughing all the way to the bank, because they are the banks.

My latest Substack post:

Academics misfire in trying to overcome supposed “NIMBYism”

ACADEMICS MISFIRE IN TRYING TO OVERCOME SUPPOSED “NIMBYISM” A response to “Housing for Me, but not for Thee: Values-Based Motivations of NIMBYism in Canada”

Part 2 of Noah Smith on Japan.

Secrets of Japanese urbanism (part 2) A review of "Emergent Tokyo", by Jorge Almazán and Studiolab