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4 [0 C# `) A# [5 A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。
$ x9 f R: w& h8 v3 v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! 0 b5 J% \& C# ]! f# E
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m+ `0 A5 s; ?0 K/ y) }% o4 F* m9 aEdmonton'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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2 T3 x$ H5 v7 d) m" s2 o7 f, l: `Statistics 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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- N0 E5 t: U- {, G. P3 CCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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7 A8 \3 d# G, t# m! i; e3 u$ e" w$ XThe 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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Edmonton 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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% S+ j) Q8 L0 v5 J"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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