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" G0 _+ Q4 Y- U! H4 Q- i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。' b* \" m2 B1 [( t3 W2 M0 A3 }
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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* t2 a) [" F* ]- G; _4 oEdmonton'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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& T/ v) m H& `" w9 `9 q6 f8 e% vStatistics 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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! p" _- I) r# i" S7 `( {; |8 l& WCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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" L h8 s Y8 SThe 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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" Q# O- W: }1 P# BEdmonton 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.0 h' P& L' W5 r; q8 f9 f2 g, O( V
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"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." B9 W7 L3 @+ n
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