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Input (English): Context: Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region., FOREST (short for "Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco") is a United Kingdom political pressure group which campaigns against tobacco control activity., British Columbia (BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, with a population of more than four million people located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. 
British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest and the Cascadia bioregion, along with the U.S. states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska., 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 Canada., A city is a large and permanent human settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town in general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law., Toronto is the most populous city in Canada, the provincial capital of Ontario, and the centre of the Greater Toronto 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 Toronto the fourth-largest city in North America based on the population within its city limits. Toronto 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, Toronto 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., A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size definition for what constitutes a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world., In many countries, a mayor (or , from the Latin "maior" , meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town., Michael Franklin Harcourt ( born January 6 , 1943 ) served as the 30th Premier of the province of British Columbia in Canada from 1991 to 1996 , and before that as the 34th mayor of BC 's largest city , Vancouver from 1980 to 1986 . Harcourt was student council president at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School and studied at the University of British Columbia , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws . He founded and became the first director ( 1969 - 71 ) of the Vancouver Community Legal Assistance Society , reputedly Canada 's first community law office . Harcourt served as a Vancouver alderman from 1973 to 1980 , and as Mayor of Vancouver from 1980 to 1986 . As mayor , his term in office was dominated by planning for Expo 86 , an event that saw many new developments come to the city . He was first elected to the British Columbia Legislature in the 1986 British Columbia provincial election . He became the leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party ( NDP ) and the Leader of the Official Opposition in the following year . He was considered to be a moderate within the ranks of his social democratic party . In the 1991 provincial election , Harcourt led the NDP back to power , defeating the Social Credit party led by Rita Johnston . This marked the second time that the NDP had ever been in power in BC , and the first since 1975 . Harcourt resigned as premier in February 1996 as the result of `` Bingogate , '' a scandal in which an NDP member , former B.C. MLA and MP , David Stupich , used money raised by a charity bingo to fund the party . While it was determined by a BC Ministry of Justice Special Prosecutor that Harcourt was not directly responsible for the scandal , he took political responsibility for it . He was succeeded as premier by Glen Clark , who also ended up resigning as the result of another scandal . After serving as premier , Harcourt became associated with the University of British Columbia ( UBC ) . He was involved in research relating to sustainable development and cities . He was severely injured in a near - fatal fall at his cottage on Pender Island in November 2002 , which resulted in a severe spinal - cord injury . The former premier received a widespread outpouring of empathy and support from his fellow British Columbians and his rapid recovery astonished doctors . He spent several months at the world - renowned facility GF Strong . He later published a book about his ordeal , called Plan B. He was named as a special advisor to Prime Minister Paul Martin on cities on December 12 , 2003 . His latest book , City Making in Paradise , was released in August 2007 . In November 2007 , he received an honorary doctoral degree in Law ( LL.D ) from UBC . In February 2009 he was appointed associate director of the new UBC Continuing Studies Centre for Sustainability , where he will contribute to the development of educational programs that emphasize practical knowledge in tackling climate change and other sustainability issues . In the January 31st , 2014 issue of `` High Country News '' , Harcourt stated he was recruited in the 1960s by an activist group to oppose a freeway that would have connected the Trans - Canada Highway to downtown Vancouver . ' You 've been hired to stop the freeway , ' he recalled in the article . Harcourt revealed in April 2014 that he had allowed his NDP membership to lapse and now considers himself an independent . `` I do n't know whether it 's a trial separation or a decree absolute , `` he told the Globe and Mail in an interview . Harcourt cited several complaints against his former party including former leader Adrian Dix 's decision to oppose the Kinder - Morgan pipeline and the party 's general disposition against mining , logging and other resource - extraction industries , the party 's 2009 opposition to the BC Liberal government 's proposed carbon tax , and the 2010 caucus revolt that forced the resignation of then - leader Carole James . Harcourt had repeatedly supported the legalization of cannabis and in May 2014 announced that he would be an advisor to True Leaf Medicine Inc. , a Vernon - based start - up company seeking Health Canada approval to produce and sell medicinal marijuana . Harcourt sits as an advisor to Canada 's Ecofiscal Commission ., Vancouver, officially the City of Vancouver, is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada, and the most populous city in the province., The Pacific Northwest (in the United States, commonly abbreviated as PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Though no agreed boundary exists, a common conception includes the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia. Broader conceptions reach north into Alaska and Yukon, south into far northern California and east to the Continental Divide, thus including Idaho, Western Montana, and western Wyoming. Narrower conceptions may be limited to the northwestern US or to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains. The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the region's history, geography, society, and other factors., 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 Canada's seventh-largest metropolitan area and Quebec's second-largest city after Montreal, which is about to the southwest. , Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States. It borders the state of Montana to the east and northeast, Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington and Oregon to the west. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canadian border with the province of British Columbia. With a population of around 1.7 million people and an area of , Idaho is the 14th largest and 39th most populous of the 50 states. The state's capital and largest city is Boise., 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., The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east., 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: Arctic 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., A province is almost always an administrative division, within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman "provincia", which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy. The term province has since been adopted by many countries, and in those with no actual provinces, it has come to mean "outside the capital city". While some provinces were produced artificially by colonial powers, others were formed around local groups with their own ethnic identities. Many have their own powers independent of federal authority, especially in Canada. In other countries, like China, provinces are the creation of central government, with very little autonomy., 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 Red and Assiniboine Rivers., Alaska is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east; its most extreme western part is Attu Island; it has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seasthe southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's residents (the total estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy., A U.S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are bound together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory, and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders (e.g., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody)., Latin (Latin: ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. The Latin alphabet is derived from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets., Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. 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 OttawaGatineau 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 Canada; and 1,236,324 within the CMA, making it the fourth-largest CMA in Canada. The City of Ottawa reported that the city had an estimated population of 960,754 as of December 2015., An "official" is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either their own or that of their superior and/or employer, public or legally private)., Montreal officially Montréal in both Canadian English and French, is the most populous municipality in Quebec and the 2nd-most populous in Canada. 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 Montreal, 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., 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 British Columbia, 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., Subject: mike harcourt, Relation: place_of_birth, Options: (A) alaska (B) alberta (C) alpine (D) boise (E) bow (F) british columbia (G) calgary (H) california (I) canada (J) canadian (K) capital city (L) cascade (M) central (N) chicago (O) columbia (P) edmonton (Q) forest (R) idaho (S) italy (T) legal (U) manitoba (V) mary (W) mexico city (X) montana (Y) montreal (Z) montréal ([) most (\) new mexico (]) new york (^) of (_) ontario (`) ottawa (a) pacific (b) pacific ocean (c) province of canada (d) quebec (e) quebec city (f) republic (g) rocky mountains (h) roman (i) roman empire (j) south bank (k) superior (l) toronto (m) united kingdom (n) vancouver (o) washington (p) winnipeg (q) winters (r) wyoming
Output (English): edmonton