Picture of the temple and Garba.

Good to see that now grocery stores like Sobeys and Pete’s here in Halifax are selling re-usable bags to help stem the use of plastic bags.I  guess this is a win-win situation for the consumer who wants to go environment friendly and for the store which has an another product to sell.

It won’t be long before many stores start  charging extra for plastic bags.Pete’s frootique has begun charging 5 cents per plastic bag.

I checked my balcony today where I saw a rock pigeon and her nest.A close look from inside my balcony window reveals that she has laid two eggs.But what a mess she has done to the balcony!

Nature right here in my balcony!

As a recent graduate this article today on the Chronicle Herald  by Roger Taylor Business Columnist  is particularly interesting .

An excerpt: 

“IT MIGHT be nice to believe that efforts to abolish forced retirement of workers at age 65 in Nova Scotia reflect a desire to end age-based discrimination, but the real issue is more about whether there are enough people to mind the store than about ensuring people retire only when they want to.

A Statistics Canada report seems to suggest that many organizations will soon be pleading with their workers not to retire. The demographics demonstrate there will be a growing shortage of labour as more and more baby boomers move into their retirement years.

While this might sound like good news for young people who will be looking for careers, getting a good job may not be so easy. Based on what I’ve been told in the past little while, since I wrote about the mandatory retirement issue, the good jobs are not the ones that seem to have the vacancies; most of the jobs that will go unfilled are not normally considered to be careers.

Nova Scotia is going to need to become more cosmopolitan and encourage people of all cultures to feel comfortable working and living here. And that adjustment isn’t going to be easy.

The sooner Nova Scotians get used to the idea that changes are about to be foisted upon them, the better off we’ll all be. Along with making our province a more attractive place for immigrants, we might find that change isn’t all bad.”

This article is also a bit of an eye-opener to just know how “conservative” NS truly is in its (perhaps not in its economic and fiscal policy per say, but in its cultural ways/approach to life).

I visited the TD CanadaTrust Jazz festival at the Festival tent on Spring Garden Road this afternoon and listened to some great music and then went to the Tall ships festival  at the Halifax waterfront to see the tall ships.Yep,Tall ships! The Tall Ships festival  includes loads of music, food, activities and Pirates!

Ships from around the world joined to celebrate the largest international gathering of world-class Tall Ships in North America.It was nice to see them, all right here at the port of Halifax. A beautiful summer day indeed!