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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。$ Y- l. `4 {' 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！
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, L$ i' j3 l$ F A- B5 FEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.) Y" c c+ r5 N. ~. O {! q k
6 }( i( C; B; a' dStatistics 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./ f4 t( m4 \6 W1 k# ~/ L% k; v$ w
4 t3 X, a* Q3 I w" DCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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3 a' s5 S6 q1 t* b0 f* B5 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.7 |8 R) s, z2 U" O
5 `4 g* G/ i' o. ~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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, r: ]5 r8 ?- m2 `/ c- z"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."0 I. \* M2 N |1 y8 b5 d# w: P
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