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Alberta is a western province of ___MASK40___ . With an estimated population of 4 , 196 , 457 as of July 1 , 2015 , it is ___MASK40___ ' s fourth - most populous province and the most populous of ___MASK40___ ' s three prairie provinces . Its area is about . Alberta and its neighbour Saskatchewan were districts of the ___MASK25___ until they were established as provinces on September 1 , 1905 . The premier has been Rachel Notley since May 2015 . Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta . It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province , in an area of foothills and prairie , about east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies . In the 2011 census , the City of Calgary had a population of 1 , 096 , 833 and a metropolitan population of 1 , 214 , 839 , making it the largest city in Alberta , and the third - largest municipality and fifth - largest census metropolitan area ( CMA ) in ___MASK40___ . The Canadian Rockies comprise the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains . They are the eastern part of the Canadian Cordillera , which is a system of multiple ranges of mountains which runs from the ___MASK8___ to the Pacific Coast . The Canadian Rockies mountain system comprises the southeastern part of this system , laying between the Interior Plains of Alberta and Northeastern ___MASK29___ on the east to the Rocky Mountain Trench of BC on the west . The southern end borders Idaho and Montana of the USA . In geographic terms the boundary is at the Canada / US border , but in geological terms it might be considered to be at Marias Pass in northern Montana . The northern end is at the Liard River in northern ___MASK29___ . The Canadian titles debate has been ongoing since the presentation to the Canadian House of Commons of the Nickle Resolution in 1917 . This resolution marked the earliest attempt to establish a Canadian government policy requesting the sovereign not to grant knighthoods , baronetcies , and peerages to Canadians and set the precedent for later policies restricting Canadians from accepting titles from foreign countries . Dissatisfaction with the British honours system led to the gradual creation of a separate system for ___MASK40___ . Quebec City ( pronounced or ) officially Québec ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec . In 2015 the city had a population estimate of 545 , 485 , and the metropolitan area had a population of 806 , 400 , making it ___MASK40___ ' s seventh - largest metropolitan area and Quebec ' s second - largest city after Montreal , which is about to the southwest . ___MASK40___ ( 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 . ___MASK40___ ' 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 . ___MASK40___ 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 ___MASK51___ ; other major urban areas include Montreal , Vancouver , Calgary , Edmonton , Quebec City , Winnipeg and Hamilton . ___MASK92___ officially Montréal in both Canadian English and French , is the most populous municipality in Quebec and the 2nd - most populous in ___MASK40___ . Originally called " Ville - Marie ", or " City of Mary ," it is named after Mount Royal , the triple - peaked hill in the heart of the city . The city is on the Island of ___MASK92___ , which took its name from the same source as the city , and a few much smaller peripheral islands , the largest of which is Île Bizard . It has a distinct four - season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold snowy winters . Saskatchewan ( or ) is a prairie and boreal province in west - central ___MASK40___ , the only province without natural borders . It has an area of , nearly 10 percent of which is fresh water , composed mostly of rivers , reservoirs , and the province ' s 100 , 000 lakes . ___MASK96___ , officially the City of ___MASK96___ , is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of ___MASK29___ , Canada , and the most populous city in the province . The Elbow River is a river in southern Alberta , ___MASK40___ . It flows from the Canadian Rockies to the city of Calgary , where it merges into the Bow River . HBO Films is a division of the cable television network HBO that produces feature films and miniseries . While much of HBO Films output is created directly for the television market , such as the film " Witness Protection " and the miniseries " Angels in America ", " Band of Brothers ", " The Pacific ", " Generation Kill ", and " Mildred Pierce ", it has also branched into theatrical distribution with such critically acclaimed films as " Elephant " and " American Splendor ", in which their theatrical releases were handled by Fine Line Features , then a subsidiary of New Line Cinema . Theatrical releases of HBO Films output were usually handled by Picturehouse , a joint venture between HBO Films and New Line ( as Fine Line was folded into Picturehouse ); both are owned by Time Warner . The ___MASK25___ ( also known as NWT ; French : " les Territoires du Nord - Ouest ", " TNO "; Athabaskan languages : " Denendeh "; Inuinnaqtun : " Nunatsiaq "; Inuktitut :  ) is a territory of Canada . At a land area of approximately and a 2011 population of 41 , 462 , it is the second largest and most populous of the three territories in Northern Canada . Its estimated population as of 2016 is 44 , 291 . Yellowknife became the territorial capital in 1967 , following recommendations by the Carrothers Commission . Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands , savannas , and shrublands biome by ecologists , based on similar temperate climates , moderate rainfall , and a composition of grasses , herbs , and shrubs , rather than trees , as the dominant vegetation type . Temperate grassland regions include the Pampas of ___MASK80___ , southern Brazil and Uruguay as well as the steppes of Eurasia . Lands typically referred to as " prairie " tend to be in North America . The term encompasses the area referred to as the Interior Lowlands of Canada , the United States , and Mexico , which includes all of the Great Plains as well as the wetter , somewhat hillier land to the east . In the U . S ., the area is constituted by most or all of the states of North Dakota , ___MASK17___ , Nebraska , Kansas , and Oklahoma , and sizable parts of the states of Montana , Wyoming , ___MASK73___ , New Mexico , Texas , Missouri , Iowa , Illinois , Ohio , Indiana , ___MASK100___ , and western and southern Minnesota . The Central Valley of California is also a prairie . The Canadian Prairies occupy vast areas of Manitoba , Saskatchewan , and Alberta . Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a 2007 television film adapted from the book of the same name by Dee Brown . The film was written by Daniel Giat , directed by Yves Simoneau and produced by HBO Films . The book on which the movie is based is a history of Native Americans in the American West in the 1860s and 1870s , focusing upon the transition from traditional ways of living to living on reservations and their treatment during that period . The title of the film and the book is taken from a line in the Stephen Vincent Benet poem `` American Names . '' It was shot in Calgary , Alberta , ___MASK40___ . The vastness of ___MASK40___ ' s ___MASK25___ ( spelled ' North - West Territories ' from 1870 to 1905 ) meant that for much of its history it was divided into several districts for ease of administration . The number and size of these territorial districts varied as other provinces and territories of ___MASK40___ were created and expanded . The districts of the ___MASK25___ were abolished in 1999 with the creation of Nunavut territory and the contraction of the ___MASK25___ to its current size . Ottawa is the capital city of ___MASK40___ . It stands on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario . Ottawa borders Gatineau , Quebec ; the two form the core of the Ottawa  Gatineau census metropolitan area ( CMA ) and the National Capital Region ( NCR ). The 2011 census reported a population of 883 , 391 , making it the fourth - largest city in ___MASK40___ ; and 1 , 236 , 324 within the CMA , making it the fourth - largest CMA in ___MASK40___ . The City of Ottawa reported that the city had an estimated population of 960 , 754 as of December 2015 . Fine Line Features ( often spelt as FineLine Features ) was the specialty films division of New Line Cinema . From 1990  1995 , under founder and president Ira Deutchman , Fine Line acquired , distributed and marketed films of a more " indie " flavor than its parent company , including such critically acclaimed films as " Hoop Dreams ", " The Player ", " Short Cuts ", " Night on ___MASK72___ ", " Spanking the Monkey ", " Shine ", " My Own Private Idaho ", " Hedwig and the Angry Inch ", and " Mrs . Parker and the Vicious Circle ". In 2005 , New Line teamed up with fellow Time Warner subsidiary HBO to form Picturehouse , a new specialty film label of which Fine Line was folded into . In physical geography , tundra is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons . The term " tundra " comes through Russian  (" tûndra ") from the Kildin Sami word " tndâr " " uplands ", " treeless mountain tract ". There are three types of tundra : ___MASK89___ tundra , alpine tundra , and Antarctic tundra . In tundra , the vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs , sedges and grasses , mosses , and lichens . Scattered trees grow in some tundra regions . The ecotone ( or ecological boundary region ) between the tundra and the forest is known as the tree line or timberline . Quebec ( pronounced or ) is the second - most populous province of ___MASK40___ and the only one to have a predominantly French - speaking population , with French as the sole provincial official language . ___MASK18___ is the capital and largest city of the province of ___MASK10___ in Canada . It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America , at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers . Yves Simoneau ( born October 28 , 1955 in Quebec City , Quebec ) is a Canadian film and television director . Time Warner , Inc . ( also known as AOL Time Warner from 2001 - 2003 ; stylized as TimeWarner ) is an American multinational media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in ___MASK33___ City . It is currently the world ' s third largest entertainment company in terms of revenue , after Comcast and The Walt Disney Company . It was also once the world ' s largest media conglomerate . Time Warner was first founded in 1990 with the merger of Time Inc . and Warner Communications . The current company consists largely of the assets of the former Warner Communications ( as well as HBO , a Time Inc . subsidiary prior to the merger ), and the assets of Turner Broadcasting ( which was acquired by the company in 1996 ). Time Warner currently has major operations in film and television , with a limited amount in publishing operations . Among its most popular assets are HBO , Turner Broadcasting System , The CW Television Network , Warner Bros ., CNN , DC Comics , and as of August 2016 , Hulu , owning 10 %. In the past , other major divisions of Time Warner included Time Inc ., AOL , Time Warner Cable , Warner Books and Warner Music Group . All of these operations were either sold to other investors or spun off as independent companies from 2004 to 2014 . ___MASK51___ is the most populous city in Canada , the provincial capital of Ontario , and the centre of the Greater ___MASK51___ Area , the most populous metropolitan area in Canada . Growing in population , the 2011 census recorded a population of 2 , 615 , 060 . As of 2015 , the population is now estimated at 2 , 826 , 498 , making ___MASK51___ the fourth - largest city in North America based on the population within its city limits . ___MASK51___ trails only Mexico City , New York City , and Los Angeles by this measure , while it is the fifth - largest ( behind also Chicago ) if ranked by the size of its metropolitan area . An established global city , ___MASK51___ is an international centre of business , finance , arts , and culture , and widely recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world . FOREST ( short for " Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco ") is a ___MASK59___ political pressure group which campaigns against tobacco control activity . The Rocky Mountains , commonly known as the Rockies , are a major mountain range in western North America . The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part of ___MASK29___ , in western Canada , to New Mexico , in the southwestern United States . Within the North American Cordillera , the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada which all lie further to the west .