[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @Graff2023 Brian Graff Brian Graff posts on X about canada, toronto, target, future the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::224852731/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXX +1.40% - X Month XXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXX +5.70% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% ### Mentions: X [#](/creator/twitter::224852731/posts_active)  - X Month XXX -XX% - X Months XXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::224852731/followers)  - X Week XXXXX +0.17% - X Month XXXXX +0.11% - X Months XXXXX +23% - X Year XXXXX +67% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::224852731/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) XXXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [gaming](/list/gaming) XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [canada](/topic/canada) 8.57%, [toronto](/topic/toronto) 4.29%, [target](/topic/target) 1.43%, [future](/topic/future) 1.43%, [nuts](/topic/nuts) 1.43%, [where i](/topic/where-i) 1.43%, [movies](/topic/movies) 1.43%, [jeep](/topic/jeep) 1.43%, [tom hanks](/topic/tom-hanks) 1.43%, [new york](/topic/new-york) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@treebeing](/creator/undefined) [@ericdlombardi](/creator/undefined) [@classicfilm](/creator/undefined) [@j_group_](/creator/undefined) [@pinky22p](/creator/undefined) [@danielfoch](/creator/undefined) [@profstevekeen](/creator/undefined) [@bradocapital](/creator/undefined) [@politicswsami](/creator/undefined) [@paulplamondon](/creator/undefined) [@coffey4canada2](/creator/undefined) [@pierrepoilievre](/creator/undefined) [@theophanesrex](/creator/undefined) [@mattyglesias](/creator/undefined) [@marraforcouncil](/creator/undefined) [@euromaidanpress](/creator/undefined) [@funtomvids](/creator/undefined) [@meh_just_a_guy](/creator/undefined) [@susanfowlecy](/creator/undefined) [@eddyrmoralesp](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Canada was most prosperous in the 1960s and 70s - when immigration was XXXXX% but often some people will say our average was 1.0%. The 380000 Carney target for 2026 is XXXXX% - way too high. A 260000 target would be around XXXXX% of XXXX million. We should stop using "targets" and have a "maximum" and if not enough people have enough points or unemployment is about X% let in far fewer people" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1994577142953218132) 2025-11-29T01:20Z 1819 followers, 5966 engagements "Mike - you were interviewed on BNN and a lot of what you said made no sense. Things are simple in PEI because most of the housing will be detached homes in small towns - Charlottetown cannot be compared to doing XX storey towers in the GTA. You do not have to do wind or shadow studies or even traffic studies in smaller cities with low rise. And yes homeowners might show up at public meetings usually about condo towers and in Toronto there are so many condos approved because of the OLT etc. that there is no lack of land and approving condo units will not reduce housing prices nor impact the" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1999163231282073872) 2025-12-11T17:03Z 1819 followers, XX engagements "This is near where I live - I often shop at the Canadian Tire store here. This is beside a GO station but these heights are nuts given how congested Danforth is now" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1995884211451166793) 2025-12-02T15:54Z 1814 followers, XXX engagements "@classic_film The Bourne Identity Excellent movie but then I love Jeep XJs and any movies where the hero drives one - the 1st Bourne Tom Hanks in Castaway Harry Bosch in the TV series etc. I love combining my hobbies - movies and cars" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1997009830976844269) 2025-12-05T18:27Z 1814 followers, XXX engagements "@mattyglesias A more detailed soils map. The areas on the Canadian side of the border are an extension of the Hudson Valley/Eastern New York and Vermont while Northern Maine is less hospitable to agriculture more like the Gaspe" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998097177483329693) 2025-12-08T18:27Z 1813 followers, 2519 engagements "@EricDLombardi You do realize that there are 740000 units in applications in the XXX - enough for over XX years and this represents an increase of at least XXX million people or XX% population growth in the XXX. So WHY do we need to have towers looming over parkland" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998101869709664719) 2025-12-08T18:46Z 1814 followers, XXX engagements "A summary of all the transit projects being built in Toronto and ones planned. Even if all of these were built they will not reduce congestion from population growth we have had or be anywhere near enough to handle the 740000 units in the XXX planning pipeline" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998128533328056437) 2025-12-08T20:32Z 1812 followers, XX engagements ""East Asians have high cognitive ability and make better inventors workers and entrepreneurs" So is this based on racism saying they are genetically superior to other races Read Amy Chua's "The Triple Package". Obviously there are cultural factors that impact people who may share a place a religion or something else. Places or cultures that place a high value on education or being a professional or owning your own business etc. may do better particularly if they emigrate to a place lacking in these" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998153939070439544) 2025-12-08T22:13Z 1813 followers, 3142 engagements "Kimmel will remain on the air longer. With CBS dumping Kimmel Jimmy will likely be the new King of late night and get more ratings and ads. CBS should reverse its decision to dump Colbert now that the merger is done" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998166168188879310) 2025-12-08T23:01Z 1812 followers, XX engagements ""He should be meeting President Donald Trump wherever he is whether its Washington or Egypt. When a malign influence inhabits the White House were in trouble and thats not really anyones fault: A nation of XX million will always be beholden to a next-door nation of XXX million." No it depends on what leverage of "cards" the smaller country has. Ireland is not beholden to the UK. Belgium is not beholden to France. Canada has cards to play particularly since the US needs access to our air and waters and resources but we refuse to use these cards" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998196535905956081) 2025-12-09T01:02Z 1813 followers, XXX engagements "Canada is a rich country we are not short on capital as such particularly as we have pension funds that have much of their assets invested outside of Canada. There is no shortage of housing and there is no need to double the number of units. He is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on Build Canada Homes which will create all of 26000 units in X years enough for maybe 60000 people rather than cutting immigration by 20000 a year and investing the money on R&D or something that makes us stronger. And then he commits to X% spending on defense and spending $ billions on XX foreign built" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998234256577892421) 2025-12-09T03:32Z 1813 followers, XXX engagements "1. There are tons of units coming on stream - no shortage of units. X. People are waiting for prices to bottom out. X. From 1990 to around 1997 there were almost no condos started in Toronto because the bubble burst and buyers were buying in the XXX. Now people are going even farther to buy detached homes and may not bee to commute. The greenbelt discourages detached homes or makes them unaffordable. Conclusion: I feel sorry for workers but BILD and developers I have no compassion for" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998448211808366679) 2025-12-09T17:42Z 1813 followers, XXX engagements "The flight to the suburbs was happening anyway and land in older urban areas was cheap. Meanwhile business had shifted away from railways which served older parts of cities with spurs and marshalling yards to suburban sprawl as will because trucking was more flexible and faster. Did the interstate system go too far and did it wreck havoc in poorer often black neighbourhoods Yes but it was inevitable particularly when combined with the redlining process that made properties in those black neighbourhoods worth little since they could not be financed. Cars and trucks are here to stay and without" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1997385770198245839) 2025-12-06T19:20Z 1816 followers, XXX engagements "Before WW1 there were the early streetcar suburbs - along the lines of the Garden City which imagined people commuting by rail but of course that was more of a hub and spoke type growth and people mostly walked to use the mass transit. In the 1920s with the car places saw the first sprawl and modern suburbs - like Leaside in Toronto where rear lanes and coach houses disappeared. After WW2 there was over XX years of little development but car ownership doubled and the old streetcars often faded into history. The costs of driving dropped dramatically and the Von Thunen model can be used to" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1997508742934315359) 2025-12-07T03:29Z 1816 followers, XXX engagements "Development charges are meant to cover capital costs of growth. If there is more housing then there is more need for things like libraries parks community centres sewers and water mains. The landowners who develop their land for profit should pay for this out of their profit - or what it really means is that land for development is worth less. The price/value of land is a residual. The economists in the article must know that. New homes are usually less than X% of home sales in a big city. If development charges make new homes too expensive fewer people will buy them and the price will have" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1997683126823186628) 2025-12-07T15:02Z 1816 followers, XX engagements "There are a number of factors. Soils are a major one - these areas are better for agriculture. Then remember that settlement was mainly along waterways - oceans lakes and rivers and then spreading from there. Then these areas were also close to Montreal - which was a major hub like NYC or Boston as it was a port and major rivers met there. Then some of this was just driven by a political border - anyone migrating to Canada would find the best climate in the South whereas in the US land along the Canadian border often is the least hospitable to agriculture or transportation" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998096005326127532) 2025-12-08T18:23Z 1814 followers, 2040 engagements "@EuromaidanPress Why are tankers likely to be used by Russia still allowed into the Baltic by Denmark Norway and Sweden" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998456203454681394) 2025-12-09T18:14Z 1816 followers, 3327 engagements "I am glad that YIMBY Eric has suddenly discovered that the QUALITY of the built environment matters even more than the quantity we allow under zoning laws. The reality is that the quality of homes that might be destroyed to build a multiplex matters - people love their streets with a consistent scale age and design language and opposed buildings that conflict with the existing designs. Welcome to being a NIMBY Eric if you care about how things look and not what just adds more density and profits for developers" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998595478066225192) 2025-12-10T03:27Z 1815 followers, XX engagements "What is a pichnic" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998905414902231444) 2025-12-10T23:59Z 1814 followers, XX engagements "@funtomvids Why is it that Canada is only seen as trading in commodities natural resources and raw materials and not for services or high technology This "hewers of wood." crap has to change" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998906286793232572) 2025-12-11T00:02Z 1818 followers, XXX engagements "Sure there are some signs of progress. Canada has a new trade agreement with Indonesia which holds the promise of bolstering exports of wheat potash wood and soybeans once it comes into force in 2026. Canada is also pursuing free-trade talks with India the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the South American Mercosur economic bloc which includes Argentina Bolivia Brazil Paraguay and Uruguay. Indeed Canada already has XX trade agreements in place covering some XX countries. Canada is mostly exporting commodities not manufactured goods. There are about XXX countries and so even" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998813171792982300) 2025-12-10T17:52Z 1819 followers, XX engagements "You still never answer: Who will do the crappy low paid unskilled jobs Canadians How can we have upward mobility for Canadians if we only bring in highly skilled people to compete for the high paying jobs Is not underemployment a big problem Aren't large numbers of highly skilled Canadians and immigrants leaving Canada due to lack of opportunity and a X% unemployment rate Who provide caregiving for seniors childcare do landscaping shovel snow and paint houses Do you want your kids doing these jobs" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1998451562927239226) 2025-12-09T17:55Z 1818 followers, 3382 engagements "Skuterud never answers the question "who should do the crappy low paid jobs most people do not want their kids to end up doing" Someone has to care for seniors paint houses sweep the floors and it makes little sense to pay top dollar for jobs we often said Canadians do not want to do. It also increases the cost of living/adds to inflation as well we want upward mobility" [X Link](https://x.com/Graff2023/status/1999179241733390725) 2025-12-11T18:07Z 1819 followers, XX engagements
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@Graff2023 Brian Graff
Brian Graff posts on X about canada, toronto, target, future the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +1.40%
- X Month XXXXXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXXXX +5.70%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX -XXXX%
Mentions: X #
- X Month XXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXX -XX%
- X Year XXXXX -XX%
Followers: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXX +0.17%
- X Month XXXXX +0.11%
- X Months XXXXX +23%
- X Year XXXXX +67%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX #
Social Influence
Social category influence luxury brands XXXXX% countries XXXXX% finance XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% gaming XXXX% automotive brands XXXX% celebrities XXXX% social networks XXXX%
Social topic influence canada 8.57%, toronto 4.29%, target 1.43%, future 1.43%, nuts 1.43%, where i 1.43%, movies 1.43%, jeep 1.43%, tom hanks 1.43%, new york XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @treebeing @ericdlombardi @classicfilm @j_group_ @pinky22p @danielfoch @profstevekeen @bradocapital @politicswsami @paulplamondon @coffey4canada2 @pierrepoilievre @theophanesrex @mattyglesias @marraforcouncil @euromaidanpress @funtomvids @meh_just_a_guy @susanfowlecy @eddyrmoralesp
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Canada was most prosperous in the 1960s and 70s - when immigration was XXXXX% but often some people will say our average was 1.0%. The 380000 Carney target for 2026 is XXXXX% - way too high. A 260000 target would be around XXXXX% of XXXX million. We should stop using "targets" and have a "maximum" and if not enough people have enough points or unemployment is about X% let in far fewer people"
X Link 2025-11-29T01:20Z 1819 followers, 5966 engagements
"Mike - you were interviewed on BNN and a lot of what you said made no sense. Things are simple in PEI because most of the housing will be detached homes in small towns - Charlottetown cannot be compared to doing XX storey towers in the GTA. You do not have to do wind or shadow studies or even traffic studies in smaller cities with low rise. And yes homeowners might show up at public meetings usually about condo towers and in Toronto there are so many condos approved because of the OLT etc. that there is no lack of land and approving condo units will not reduce housing prices nor impact the"
X Link 2025-12-11T17:03Z 1819 followers, XX engagements
"This is near where I live - I often shop at the Canadian Tire store here. This is beside a GO station but these heights are nuts given how congested Danforth is now"
X Link 2025-12-02T15:54Z 1814 followers, XXX engagements
"@classic_film The Bourne Identity Excellent movie but then I love Jeep XJs and any movies where the hero drives one - the 1st Bourne Tom Hanks in Castaway Harry Bosch in the TV series etc. I love combining my hobbies - movies and cars"
X Link 2025-12-05T18:27Z 1814 followers, XXX engagements
"@mattyglesias A more detailed soils map. The areas on the Canadian side of the border are an extension of the Hudson Valley/Eastern New York and Vermont while Northern Maine is less hospitable to agriculture more like the Gaspe"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:27Z 1813 followers, 2519 engagements
"@EricDLombardi You do realize that there are 740000 units in applications in the XXX - enough for over XX years and this represents an increase of at least XXX million people or XX% population growth in the XXX. So WHY do we need to have towers looming over parkland"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:46Z 1814 followers, XXX engagements
"A summary of all the transit projects being built in Toronto and ones planned. Even if all of these were built they will not reduce congestion from population growth we have had or be anywhere near enough to handle the 740000 units in the XXX planning pipeline"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:32Z 1812 followers, XX engagements
""East Asians have high cognitive ability and make better inventors workers and entrepreneurs" So is this based on racism saying they are genetically superior to other races Read Amy Chua's "The Triple Package". Obviously there are cultural factors that impact people who may share a place a religion or something else. Places or cultures that place a high value on education or being a professional or owning your own business etc. may do better particularly if they emigrate to a place lacking in these"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:13Z 1813 followers, 3142 engagements
"Kimmel will remain on the air longer. With CBS dumping Kimmel Jimmy will likely be the new King of late night and get more ratings and ads. CBS should reverse its decision to dump Colbert now that the merger is done"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:01Z 1812 followers, XX engagements
""He should be meeting President Donald Trump wherever he is whether its Washington or Egypt. When a malign influence inhabits the White House were in trouble and thats not really anyones fault: A nation of XX million will always be beholden to a next-door nation of XXX million." No it depends on what leverage of "cards" the smaller country has. Ireland is not beholden to the UK. Belgium is not beholden to France. Canada has cards to play particularly since the US needs access to our air and waters and resources but we refuse to use these cards"
X Link 2025-12-09T01:02Z 1813 followers, XXX engagements
"Canada is a rich country we are not short on capital as such particularly as we have pension funds that have much of their assets invested outside of Canada. There is no shortage of housing and there is no need to double the number of units. He is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on Build Canada Homes which will create all of 26000 units in X years enough for maybe 60000 people rather than cutting immigration by 20000 a year and investing the money on R&D or something that makes us stronger. And then he commits to X% spending on defense and spending $ billions on XX foreign built"
X Link 2025-12-09T03:32Z 1813 followers, XXX engagements
"1. There are tons of units coming on stream - no shortage of units. X. People are waiting for prices to bottom out. X. From 1990 to around 1997 there were almost no condos started in Toronto because the bubble burst and buyers were buying in the XXX. Now people are going even farther to buy detached homes and may not bee to commute. The greenbelt discourages detached homes or makes them unaffordable. Conclusion: I feel sorry for workers but BILD and developers I have no compassion for"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:42Z 1813 followers, XXX engagements
"The flight to the suburbs was happening anyway and land in older urban areas was cheap. Meanwhile business had shifted away from railways which served older parts of cities with spurs and marshalling yards to suburban sprawl as will because trucking was more flexible and faster. Did the interstate system go too far and did it wreck havoc in poorer often black neighbourhoods Yes but it was inevitable particularly when combined with the redlining process that made properties in those black neighbourhoods worth little since they could not be financed. Cars and trucks are here to stay and without"
X Link 2025-12-06T19:20Z 1816 followers, XXX engagements
"Before WW1 there were the early streetcar suburbs - along the lines of the Garden City which imagined people commuting by rail but of course that was more of a hub and spoke type growth and people mostly walked to use the mass transit. In the 1920s with the car places saw the first sprawl and modern suburbs - like Leaside in Toronto where rear lanes and coach houses disappeared. After WW2 there was over XX years of little development but car ownership doubled and the old streetcars often faded into history. The costs of driving dropped dramatically and the Von Thunen model can be used to"
X Link 2025-12-07T03:29Z 1816 followers, XXX engagements
"Development charges are meant to cover capital costs of growth. If there is more housing then there is more need for things like libraries parks community centres sewers and water mains. The landowners who develop their land for profit should pay for this out of their profit - or what it really means is that land for development is worth less. The price/value of land is a residual. The economists in the article must know that. New homes are usually less than X% of home sales in a big city. If development charges make new homes too expensive fewer people will buy them and the price will have"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:02Z 1816 followers, XX engagements
"There are a number of factors. Soils are a major one - these areas are better for agriculture. Then remember that settlement was mainly along waterways - oceans lakes and rivers and then spreading from there. Then these areas were also close to Montreal - which was a major hub like NYC or Boston as it was a port and major rivers met there. Then some of this was just driven by a political border - anyone migrating to Canada would find the best climate in the South whereas in the US land along the Canadian border often is the least hospitable to agriculture or transportation"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:23Z 1814 followers, 2040 engagements
"@EuromaidanPress Why are tankers likely to be used by Russia still allowed into the Baltic by Denmark Norway and Sweden"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:14Z 1816 followers, 3327 engagements
"I am glad that YIMBY Eric has suddenly discovered that the QUALITY of the built environment matters even more than the quantity we allow under zoning laws. The reality is that the quality of homes that might be destroyed to build a multiplex matters - people love their streets with a consistent scale age and design language and opposed buildings that conflict with the existing designs. Welcome to being a NIMBY Eric if you care about how things look and not what just adds more density and profits for developers"
X Link 2025-12-10T03:27Z 1815 followers, XX engagements
"What is a pichnic"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:59Z 1814 followers, XX engagements
"@funtomvids Why is it that Canada is only seen as trading in commodities natural resources and raw materials and not for services or high technology This "hewers of wood." crap has to change"
X Link 2025-12-11T00:02Z 1818 followers, XXX engagements
"Sure there are some signs of progress. Canada has a new trade agreement with Indonesia which holds the promise of bolstering exports of wheat potash wood and soybeans once it comes into force in 2026. Canada is also pursuing free-trade talks with India the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the South American Mercosur economic bloc which includes Argentina Bolivia Brazil Paraguay and Uruguay. Indeed Canada already has XX trade agreements in place covering some XX countries. Canada is mostly exporting commodities not manufactured goods. There are about XXX countries and so even"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:52Z 1819 followers, XX engagements
"You still never answer: Who will do the crappy low paid unskilled jobs Canadians How can we have upward mobility for Canadians if we only bring in highly skilled people to compete for the high paying jobs Is not underemployment a big problem Aren't large numbers of highly skilled Canadians and immigrants leaving Canada due to lack of opportunity and a X% unemployment rate Who provide caregiving for seniors childcare do landscaping shovel snow and paint houses Do you want your kids doing these jobs"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:55Z 1818 followers, 3382 engagements
"Skuterud never answers the question "who should do the crappy low paid jobs most people do not want their kids to end up doing" Someone has to care for seniors paint houses sweep the floors and it makes little sense to pay top dollar for jobs we often said Canadians do not want to do. It also increases the cost of living/adds to inflation as well we want upward mobility"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:07Z 1819 followers, XX engagements