The Calgary Metropolitan Region is home to Canada's second-highest number of corporate head offices among the country's 800 largest corporations. Ĭalgary's economy includes activity in the energy, financial services, film and television, transportation and logistics, technology, manufacturing, aerospace, health and wellness, retail, and tourism sectors. The city anchors the south end of the Statistics Canada-defined urban area, the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor.
As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in Canada.Ĭalgary is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in the transitional area between the Rocky Mountain Foothills and the Canadian Prairies, about 80 km (50 mi) east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies, roughly 299 km (186 mi) south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and approximately 240 km (150 mi) north of the Canada–United States border.
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“I personally won’t have full peace until I know that other families won’t be subject to this kind of terrorism again in the future.Bow River, Elbow River, Glenmore ReservoirĬalgary ( / ˈ k æ l ɡ ər i/ ( listen) KAL-gər-ee) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. “It’s been 20 years and we’re just now declassifying documents, finding out more about parties that were involved in funding these terrorists,” Aiken said. To make further progress in the war on terror, Aiken said it’s imperative for the public to learn more about who has funded terrorist groups. “I do not take relish in another human being killed,” Aiken said, “but it does give me hope that our president does take counterterrorism very seriously and it does gives me hope that we will continue addressing everyone and all the parties involved with terrorism so other families don’t have to feel the pain that my family has felt.” Terrease Aiken, whose father Terrence was on the 97th floor of the North Tower when the planes hit on 9/11, said the killing is a step in the right direction in getting justice. How did the US kill top Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri? A formal, detailed briefing was given July 1, and the president was “deeply engaged” and asked questions about minimizing risks to civilians, according to officials. The reconnaissance operation was in the works for months, and Biden was briefed periodically during May and June, officials said. Senior Taliban leaders knew al-Zawahiri was at the downtown Kabul safehouse, where he appeared on a balcony several times over the course of several months. Sunday in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to senior administration officials. He was on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.Īl-Zawahiri was killed by the CIA drone strike shortly after 6 a.m. “This terrorist leader is no more.”Īl-Zawahiri was a doctor born in Egypt in 1951 and succeeded Osama bin Laden as the head of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda following his death at the hands of U.S. “Justice has been delivered,” Biden said in a prime-time address from the Blue Room Balcony at the White House. ( NewsNation) - President Joe Biden announced Monday evening the United States conducted a drone strike over the weekend that killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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