This morning we got a few inches of light powdery snow in YYZ. My neighbor's snowplow company showed up and instead of shoveling his steps they used a gas-powered leaf blower to clear his steps. Took a fraction of the time it would have taken to shovel.
Obviously won't work for heavy snow but for powdery snow it worked really well. And I imagine you need a good gas-powered leaf blower, not a weak battery-powered one.