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$ j' U' U9 {: A% @7 t! D3 ~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。
0 y/ o* ~( ^0 } Y+ 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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9 k, b* u7 I. a: X% HEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.4 a) D9 F4 `8 ~$ b8 r1 [) @
N5 |( a" q! H2 d$ P9 NStatistics 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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! E" L2 H1 j( d8 B* @( U7 Y6 zCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011. U( L/ h% C: J: Z+ h' k2 m, f8 U5 `5 I
9 U7 H/ A/ c& W8 g& F3 z D) Z- lThe 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.3 R' R* \1 M3 m' q: ~) K' a
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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."$ X6 ^; l0 o1 _
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