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, f/ K s+ m: ]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。8 g# H5 m: x2 _. `/ H& a0 }! G
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！ ( k3 T6 j% P* I$ U( h, ~0 W
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Edmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.' C1 T8 g& f: w
5 \. j! u4 [8 x; h- f& cStatistics 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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& m% x( W& M- z8 W+ UCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.( |1 ?2 y. ]3 n: p% o H* |: G
9 ]/ C0 [4 s4 S& ~5 |6 |' z( o+ gThe 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.' a# Y3 X6 T) h1 Z
+ B1 x. g7 w) LEdmonton 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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"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."2 p: ?# m+ p" R" d, k
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