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本帖最后由 青萝 于 2012-2-9 21:35 编辑 3 ^& [0 Y8 Y4 |
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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。
6 j/ [4 a) z: C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！ . ?( v0 Q( F+ }2 t) x X
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" u6 ]" G: l' CEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.7 C3 n, _' s# ]) {- T
* _# J5 R) `5 F; e& u5 kStatistics 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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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011./ |3 {" R! N" T `, ^
6 w* J/ t3 L& W& N) X& w9 cThe 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.- I3 z7 |$ X0 p# x( g
9 c `/ K. q F. T q6 l" k/ ~1 PEdmonton 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."( D6 x+ W4 D' H$ G- E
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