The City of Calgary was on the forefront of helping people, as they set up the first Snow Angel campaign in North America, ten years ago.

The Snow Angel campaign recognizes good citizens who shovel the walks for people who may not be able to do it themselves.

It is going to prove difficult for city council to move away from the annual five per cent property tax increases in its next multi-year budget.

Mayor Naheed Nenshi and councillors will be setting tax rates and service level increases for the next four years in summer and fall 2014. The city's projections show that the fiveper cent tax increases will be needed in 2015 and 2016 to keep up with their costs.

City of Calgary Councillors will be deciding if 2014's $52 million tax hike will be given back to Calgarians or kept to be used for mitigation projects from future floods.

One of the mitigation projects includes a $10.2 million berm upgrade to the Calgary Zoo to protect it from future floods.

Currently all proposed mitigation projects total $22.7 million, but there is a chance that more projects will arise later.

The number of Calgarians satisfied with the city they call home is on the rise.

As revealed in the 2013 Citizen Satisfaction Survey, 88 per cent of Calgarians are satisfied with the quality of life in the city, an increase of 10 per cent over the last three years.

After years of negotiations and near misses, a huge obstacle to begin construction of the southwest ring road has been reached.

On October 24, the Tsuu T'ina Nation voted 69 per cent in favour of a tentative land agreement with the Government of Alberta that will see them transfer a portion of reserve land to the Province in order to build the southwest leg of the ring road.