The website for the Marda Loop Justice Film festival has been updated. All the old information has been moved to a separate set of pages and which “year” of the website you are viewing is toggled by a small drop down box present among the rest of the links in the sidebar. To check it out visit: JusticeFilmFestival.ca

Rewrote a big chunk of code for the Marda Loop Justice Film Festival website this evening that gets rid of the images I was using for buttons and frame borders. It renders the equivalent using CSS. check it out: www.justicefilmfestival.ca

I guess it’s a bit faster, but that wasn’t really the point. I wanted it to load without having to do the chunky shake thing that a browser does when it loads things into a table. I kept 1 table because I was lazy but fixed the problematic one.

In the summer of 2006, the Canadian government took steps to promote public transit as a climate change solution by offering a tax credit to public transit users. Promoting Public transit is one big solution to commuter caused pollution, promoting cycling as a substitute to the automobile is another. Promotion of public transit as a replacement for commuting can cut down on one source of automobile use, but it makes a smaller impact on day to day errands and trips.

The answer? pedestrians and cyclists! In addition to curbing emissions active promotion of active lifestyles combats X syndrome. According to the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute:
Current estimates place the cost of physical inactivity in Canada at $5.3 billion. If the government is going to promote public transit they need to promote cycling as well.

What can you do? well, start by sending your monthly letter to an MP in for February on this issue! or if you’ve got some lame excuse for not doing that Sign this petition.