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本帖最后由 青萝 于 2012-2-9 21:35 编辑 : s$ E; e7 [1 y* e
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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。
8 [2 J3 |0 z1 A" s8 S. M# k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！
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7 G1 D" U5 J. E& ]2 @Edmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.1 o2 k, F8 ?1 d$ W4 ]- f+ I7 L
8 @' O# P$ ]: CStatistics 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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. ~6 I" U2 ^) f2 pCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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9 E6 R1 L6 S4 Y- Q' |/ a7 cThe 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.5 i( f! I, p$ a* i) e
) q& _* E7 {* EEdmonton 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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6 a7 J; i- f0 } l" H"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."( G5 ~7 U% @& M% ]. X
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