Month: October 2024

The Happiest Place to Live By John G. Kelly B.Com., D.PIR., LL.B.,M.S.Sc., M.A. (Jud.Admin.), F.CIS. john@activeretirement.ca ; www.johngkelly.ca The World Happiest Report has ranked Canada as the eighth happiest country in the world to live in by people over the age of 60. If you’re in that age category you can and should be feeling good about yourself. […]

by John G. Kelly B.Com., D.PIR., LL.B.,M.S.Sc., M.A. (Jud.Admin.), F.CIS. john@activeretirement.ca ; www.johngkelly.ca Your home is your first place. It’s where, to coin a phrase, you feel right at home. Or it should be. If it isn’t then you need to give some serious thought as to where that first place could be.  For me, it’s […]

By John G. Kelly B.Com., D.PIR., LL.B.,M.S.Sc., M.A. (Jud.Admin.), F.CIS. john@activeretirement.ca, www.johngkelly.ca It’s time for a new paradigm. Rather than aging in place, more should aspire to live in community. “Living in community” has several advantages. First, it swaps the passive word “aging” for the active word “living”. Second, it exchanges “place” for “community”.[1] Canada and […]

Why I Chose to Come Home to Saint Andrews by the Sea, an Idyllic Tourist Town by John G. Kelly john@activeretirement.ca johngkelly.ca Yes, I’m a Bay of Fundy Boy and, like so many Maritimers who grow up and leave, I decided to come home. But my exiting the greater Toronto Hamilton area (GTHA) and coming […]