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本帖最后由 青萝 于 2012-2-9 21:35 编辑 % f( b* x6 Y4 ]- S% ~
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统计表明最近五年（2006-2011）的人口增长率，卡尔加里12.6%，埃德蒙德12.1%，成为全加拿大人口增长最快的两个城市。
# n4 w7 u2 e) i/ N5 P/ i埃德蒙顿2011年人口已达81.2万。这个被我们昵称为屯子的地方，至少得改名叫“大屯子”了！ & y/ F W6 l2 w* U6 c0 x* t4 K- r; U k
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Edmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.
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" p5 ]% ~3 ~! qStatistics Canada reported Wednesday that Alberta's population increased at twice the national average, while results of the 2011 federal census showed the Edmonton area's population grew at a faster rate than any other metro region in Canada from 2006 to 2011, with the exception of Calgary.
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011., c/ L# K5 X4 k- x( b7 [1 X( y& Z
; i3 n0 a, o: x$ g$ ]The capital region - including municipalities such as Beaumont, Spruce Grove and Fort Saskatchewan - grew from slightly more than a million people in 2006 to nearly 1.2 million people in 2011. That's a 12percent increase in the five-year span measured by the census.
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$ U) V) S# R3 l7 o* E8 e& W( HEdmonton alone added nearly 82,000 people in that time, bringing the population to 812,200. Originally, the city's chief economist John Rose thought Edmonton might see a slight slowdown from the impressive 9.6-per-cent growth it reported in the 2006 census. Instead, he said, strong job numbers in the past year helped push it to 11.2 per cent.
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: E- s3 B. g" f; p7 B9 t- k+ }"What we have here is a very good news story," Rose said. "It suggests the City of Edmonton is no longer just a place you go to for a job, work that job for a few years and then you go on to something else when the boom is over."
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