On March 21, 2013, Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty presented the 2013 Federal Budget. One area of this budget that both interests and concerns me is “Tariff Relief for Canadian Consumers”. Budget 2013 proposes to permanently eliminate all tariffs on baby clothes and sports and athletic equipment (excluding bicycles). This measure will support Canadian families and encourage physical activity and healthy living by lowering the costs of importing these goods. More details here: http://www.budget.gc.ca/2013/doc/plan/anx2-eng.html The statement above suggests to me that our Federal Conservatives aren’t really interested in addressing our problems with transportation, health, energy costs, and associated cost…
If you live in Brampton, you might have noticed that travelling to work has become more challenging over the last few years. Metrolinx has a plan to combat this, called “The Big Move“. Now, I love transit—I live car-free! And I think the what Metrolinx has painstakingly put together goes a long way in depicting the problems of mobility that the GTA and Hamilton will face if nothing changes to relieve congestion. It’s just that, I don’t know… It doesn’t really have “bite”. It doesn’t push hard enough on people to second guess whether they are doing themselves justice by…
I am clearly not spending enough time in Mississauga. On January 19th, I attended Walk and Roll Peel’s Public Forum, where I learned about walking and cycling initiatives in Mississauga and Peel; preliminary results from the Peel GPS Cycling study, and ideas on how Mississauga and Peel should move forward to create active, healthy communities. Also, there was a special guest speaker: Dave Cieslewicz: Former Mayor of Madison Wisconsin from 2003 to 2011. He discussed how Madison was made into a Platinum-rated “Bike Friendly City”. It was open, encouraging, and just plain awesome. As I’m sure the G.T.A. is keenly…
There are advantages of using <strong> over <b>, and <em> (as in emphasis) over <i>. I’ll try to explain the differences of these semantics as simply as possible. In HTML, <b> tells the browser to display type as bold, and <i> tells the browser to display type in italics. The problem with this is that these terms are only applicable to visual display, and become problematic when you are trying to make your site compatible for accessibility devices. Enter <strong> and <em>. While in a browser display they might look no different to their <b> and <i> counterparts, they can…