Alberta
About Alberta
Alberta is a province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, the Northwest Territories to its north, and the U.S. state of Montana to its south. Itself and Saskatchewan are the only two landlocked Canadian provinces. The eastern part of the province is occupied by the Great Plains, while the western part borders the Rocky Mountains. The province has a predominantly continental climate, but seasonal temperatures tend to swing rapidly because it is so arid. Those swings are less pronounced in western Alberta because of its occasional Chinook winds. Alberta is Canada's fourth-largest province by area, at 661,848 square kilometres (255,541 sq mi), and the fourth-most populous, with 4,262,635 residents. Alberta's capital is Edmonton; its largest city is Calgary. The two cities are Alberta's largest census metropolitan areas. More than half of Albertans live in Edmonton or Calgary, which encourages a continuing rivalry between the two cities. English is the province's official language. In 2016, 76.0% of Albertans were anglophone, 1.8% were francophone and 22.2% were allophone.
On the show — 4 mentions total
There is now no point in playing drafts, because there is a correct way to play it. This was worked out by a computer games expert called Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta. At the peak of his work, there were 200 desktop computers, which he had playing drafts full-time to work out the combinations of how to play.
from No Such Thing As The iSausage, 2020-06-22 at 00:43:37 · read transcript
Other times Alberta came up
In films. Yeah. In the Disney film as well, by the way, they use a species of lemming that you don't find where they were filming it. It was filmed in Alberta, Canada. It was in Calgary, but they presented that it was being filmed in Lapland. The lemmings that they got for the filming, which they got North and the Arctic, you don't find them in Lapland.
452: No Such Thing As Lemming Atlantis, 2022-11-11 · listen
It was about animal cruelty, basically, in films. Yeah. In the Disney film as well, by the way, they use a species of lemming that you don't find where they were filming it. It was filmed in Alberta, Canada. It was in Calgary. They presented that it was being filmed in Lapland. The lemmings that they got for the filming, which they got north in the Arctic, you don't find them in Lapland.
No Such Thing As Lemming Atlantis, 2022-11-11 · listen
She started smoking at the age of nine and then at the age of like 14 or 15, she was like, I need money for cigarettes. Let me write a masterpiece. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, that's where Bret the Hitman Hard is from, as you would know if you had the WWE wrestling game. Oh, you would also know that if you spent any time with Dan over the last 20 years.
519: No Such Thing As A Noice Computer, 2024-02-22 · listen
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Coordinates: 54.5000, -115.0000