Nice! We have to thank ourselves because we have an eye to experience all that our seen in this world. I hope everyone of us will share their eye-opening too.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Great article. This experience would really open your eyes to the issues around accessibility. Everyone should have to do this.

Thanks for helping me out at the Hoot suite session.

Jeff@Smiledog
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http://www.saveoursundays.ca/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=196

An entry in a blog belonging to the Economic History Association titled ‘Economic History of Retirement in the United States’, presents a stark reminder that retirement has been an artificial concept that was not always an accepted notion. It reveals that the participation of older men in the labour force declined from a high of 76% in 1880 to 17.5% in 2000. This decline has only recently begun to make a comeback.

http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/short.retirement.history.us

Social engineers ... marketers ... governments, gradually, cleverly promoted the notion that men, and ultimately women, of advancing years should retire from the workforce. Popularized as a deserved rite of passage and reward (one example: Freedom 55), men and women at the top of their game were, and still are, being convinced to shelve their business knowledge, training, skill sets, wisdom, experience and an incalculable sixth sense acquired over decades, and go fishing instead.

Today’s Boomers, turned Zoomers, are slowly waking up from their long slumber realizing that retirement has always been a calculated manipulation. Trading in their garden trowels for gym memberships ... 50+, 60+, 70+ women and men are beginning to reenter the workforce backed up by their ample financial resources that now permit them the luxury of making careful career choices.

While the reality of labour and skill set shortages warrants concern the real danger is employers still held hostage by outdated social engineering. A vast source of refined business skills exists within the men and women of the Boomer/Zoomer demographic. The war for talent has, as Janet warns, certainly begun ... however, the competitive advantage Nova Scotia's employers seek is hidden in plain sight.

Peter Skakum

There seems to be a widely-held belief that growth of our city will erode the quality of life. I’d suggest that growth, done right, can enhance the quality of life – bringing more jobs, more amenities, and more culture. With proper planning and with the help of our peninsular geography, Halifax will not become a sprawling metropolis but rather a dense urban core that’s very human in scale. With a dense core and top notch public transit we can avoid the traffic jams of other big cities and still be minutes from the sea wherever we live in the city. Perhaps most importantly, we’ll have more of the jobs that many Nova Scotians are currently leaving the province for. And if you have any doubt about our ability to maintain our welcoming hospitality as a bigger city, you need only share a beer with Newfoundlander in Calgary or a Haligonian in Toronto to see that you can’t take the good cheer out of an Atlantic Canadian, even in a city of millions.