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Edmonton is the largest metropolitan centre between Toronto and Vancouver, and is Canada's fifth-largest city. Edmonton's wealth of business advantages is based on the traditional strengths of the region's resource industries: agriculture, energy and forestry. Growing economic sectors today include manufacturing, business services and advanced technologies. Edmonton enjoys one of the best company attraction and retention rates in the country, in large part due to an outstanding quality of life. Edmonton is known as Canada's Festival City, due to its hosting of events including North America's largest alternative theatre event, the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. This combination of a flourishing economy and an agreeable quality of life has led an increasing number of people to choose the Alberta capital as a place to work, live and prosper.