City hall intends to hit homeowners with a 5.4 per cent tax hike next year, to help Calgarians during these tough economic times.

That’s mind-boggling. Even the great Czech novelist Franz Kafka would have been hard-pressed to capture the surreal mindset among our civic administration.

Therefore, imagine the confusion those newcomer councillors, elected a month ago, must have felt when receiving their baptismal welcome to the weird and wacky world of civic budgeting this week.

It came courtesy of the city’s chief financial officer, Les Tochor, who explained the seemingly inexplicable to these innocent newbies — that a planned tax hike for 2026, agreed to by the previous outfit, should proceed.

This would be a blended rate of 3.6 per cent: 5.4 per cent from ratepayers and 1.3 per cent fr

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