Calgary
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Calgary is home of the Calgary Stampede, an annual rodeo, and was the host city of the 1988 winter Olympic Games.
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The location that Grimes and Ramsay found in Calgary was indeed on the verge of condemnation.
From Los Angeles Times
“We put Gobo into this beautiful setting that we all visit when we are taking days off from shooting the show in Calgary,” Fusfeld says.
From Los Angeles Times
"It is the perennial problem," said Heather Exner-Pirot, director of natural resources, energy and the environment at the MacDonald-Laurier Institute think tank, and who is based in Calgary, Alberta.
From BBC
Hu, of Calgary, a province in Alberta, was pulled from the water by another beachgoer and an off-duty California State Parks peace officer, and was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
From Los Angeles Times
The Calgary, Alberta, company moves about 30% of the crude oil produced in North America, and also transports almost 20% of the natural gas consumed in the U.S.
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