The Calgary Home + Garden Show features hundreds of exhibitors showcasing products and tips for anything and everything pertaining to home improvement and enhancement.

One local company launching at the show — looking to both improve upon and enhance local backyards — is SigmaDek. Incorporated since 2008, SigmaDek offers low maintenance and lifetime warranty deck and patio products.

Can you feel it?

So said the motto from the 1988 Winter Olympics taking place from Feb. 13 to 28, making Calgary the centre stage for the world's best winter athletes.

"I was the perfect age in 1988, 16, just old enough to be able to go downtown by myself and just old enough to be able to experience the Olympics in ways that only a teenager can experience them," said Mayor Naheed Nenshi at a Celebrate '88 event at the Olympic Oval. "Meeting people from around the world (was an) amazing thing."

The City of Calgary Development & Building Approvals in partnership with the Calgary Fire Department are conducting a suite safety pilot on 50 of the city's existing suites.

The objectives of the pilot include seeing if the 50 suites have relevant permits, have the correct land use designation and are up to Alberta Fire and Building Code standards. The City will then assist property owners through City processes to bring their suites up to compliance if possible.

The Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) has announced the completion of the third phase of RiverWalk.

The pathway now stretches two kilometres along the Bow River from Centre Street Bridge through East Village and around Fort Calgary to Ninth Avenue S.E.

While most of the province's real estate markets are expected to post declines in the coming months, increases in Alberta MLS® activity is expected to lead the country.

According to The Canadian Real Estate Association's (CREA) revised resale housing forecast, sales in Alberta are expected to hit 61,150 by the end of 2012, marking a 13.8 per cent increase over the 53,756 sales in 2011.