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4 \: ]( l' B" }% P: Z! l9 J6 g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。
5 D' F+ A* p+ [; O' B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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0 [2 v* Z, h5 _/ e+ z' GEdmonton'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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/ W$ d; d; h; t) `# E3 q+ ?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.' O( l7 }6 ?# i* t
. o* S$ W6 @( l& y# X2 yCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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# A* j% l/ h, z% X: KThe 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./ ~" V+ R( n% F; x3 k3 D' `
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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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, k0 e3 W6 V8 l+ g1 C. E"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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