Hey, you, who's reading this in the future: you can find out who I am today at https://rarf.zone/about/. ๐Ÿ’™


E-mail me at:
info@rarf.zone
Mastodon/Fediverse
yiff.life/@katja

Possibilities include (but are not limited to):

  • the history of car insurance in BC
  • a comparative look at freedom of expression protections in Canada vs. the US
  • the two failed attempts at Making Canada's Constitution Less Awfulโ„ข in the '80sโ€“'90s
  • how the Campbell, Clark, Horgan, and Eby Administrations in BC have continually "fumbled" the ball on their large, loud, public responses to the housing affordability crisis
  • the history of corruption in freeway and other infrastructure construction in BC during the '50s to '80s
  • more adventures in Not Knowing How To Build Ropeways with Janek Kunczynski
  • civil forfeiture in the BC context
  • the Leaky Condo Crisis
  • the interplay between international human rights law and early Charter decisions
  • the urban planning aspects of Expo 86
  • why each municipality in Metro Vancouver, well, exists
  • the history of boat crossings from Nanaimo to the Lower Mainland
  • drug policy in the City of Vancouver; AKA why we had cannabis dispensaries in the mid-'00s and currently have at least one brick-and-mortar shop selling coca tea
  • the political economy of Park Royal's development from the '50s to today

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in reply to @kda's post:

See this is the thing, is that my husband is from BC and he doesnโ€™t tell me about this shit until it suddenly comes up for unrelated reasons, and only then will he matter-of-factly explain [collection of events that sound like utter madness to my semi-staid Ontario sensibilities]

Yeah, in a lot of ways, BC really is the Florida of Canada.

Notably unhinged whites! Absolute incompetence and futile stubbornness in the face of unfamiliar geography and ecology! Holy Fuck Reactionary Expats Can't Get Enough Of Here!

BC's one saving grace is that the horrors started so recently that they're, like, substantially less entrenched and probably easier to start correcting, once the appropriate political conditions arise.