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Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada . It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America , at the confluence of the ___MASK68___ and Assiniboine Rivers . Rachel Anne Notley ( born April 17 , 1964 ) is a Canadian politician and the 17th and current Premier of Alberta , since 2015 . She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton - Strathcona , and leader of the ___MASK64___ . The daughter of former Alberta NDP leader Grant Notley , Notley ' s career before politics focused on labour law , with a specialty in workers ' compensation advocacy and workplace health and safety issues . FOREST ( short for " Freedom Organisation for ___MASK95___ to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco ") is a United Kingdom political pressure group which campaigns against tobacco control activity . Canada ( French : ) is a country in the northern half of North America . Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean , covering , making it the world ' s second - largest country by total area and the fourth - largest country by land area . Canada ' s border with the United States is the world ' s longest land border . The majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate , but southerly areas are warm in summer . Canada is sparsely populated , the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains . About four - fifths of the country ' s population of 36 million people is urbanized and live near the southern border . Its capital is Ottawa , its largest city is Toronto ; other major urban areas include Montreal , Vancouver , Calgary , Edmonton , Quebec City , Winnipeg and Hamilton . Alberta is a western province of Canada . With an estimated population of 4 , 196 , 457 as of July 1 , 2015 , it is Canada ' s fourth - most populous province and the most populous of Canada ' s three prairie provinces . Its area is about . Alberta and its neighbour Saskatchewan were districts of the Northwest Territories until they were established as provinces on September 1 , 1905 . The premier has been Rachel Notley since May 2015 . Alexander Duncan McEachern ( born September 27 , 1939 ) is a former provincial level politician from Alberta , Canada . He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1993 .