Thanks to a $4 million investment, seniors, families and persons with disabilities in Calgary have more affordable housing thanks to the completion of the Victoria Gardens development.

The development was made possible thanks to the investment from the Government of Canada and the Government of Alberta.

Outlining the path of development for land annexed in 2007, the City of Calgary has approved a development plan for a massive section of land on the city's northern outskirts.

Sitting on 1,080 hectares bordered by 160 Ave N, Stoney Trail, 14 St NW and the expanding Calgary airport, the Keystone Hills Area Structure Plan calls for a mixed use development that will eventually be home to as many as 60,000 people and employ as many as 18,000.

Heading west on Highway 1A, travellers descending into Cochrane down the 'Big Hill' are greeted with a stunning mountain vista slightly marred by a very large gravel lot right in the middle of town.

Between 1964 and 1988, the area was home to Domtar, a wood treatment facility who, according to the Cochrane Eagle newspaper, used a tar/creosote mixture consisting of semi-volatile polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and pentachlorophenol to treat to railway ties leading to the contamination of the soil.