一个实实在在的好消息：Alberta rebounds as magnet for job seekers

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Gain of 2,820 from other provinces follows losses
; A1 R& o& F1 l: S1 B  rFrom Today's Edmonton Journal
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Migration to Alberta from other provinces jumped in the second quarter, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
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From April 1 to July 1, a net total of 2,820 Canadians moved to Alberta.
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+ n7 n+ V/ h8 LThat means people from other provinces are being drawn by Alberta’s economy after months of dwindling or negative interprovin-cial migration to Alberta.
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Only 312 Canadians moved to Alberta in the first three months of the year and Alberta posted net losses in the two quarters before that.

4 A) Q7 D/ K! \Between 2009 and this year, Alberta lost 2,200 people to other provinces.

It was the first time Alberta had lost more people than it gained since 1994-95.
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/ V0 E6 _1 H# k$ H0 IIt followed a peak during 200506 when 45,800 interprovincial migrants arrived.
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' m5 Z7 X. a$ c- H) UATB Financial economist Dan Sumner said interprovincial migration is one of the best measures of the relative economic and social health of a region.
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“Alberta just experienced its most solid quarter of interprovincial migration in a year,” Sumner said.
4 n& g# F: T. |! L“The main factor driving Canadians to move between provinces is jobs and job prospects.
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2 i% d1 l% Z8 h' a“During the mid-decade, unsustainably strong job prospects drove migrants to Alberta from all corners of the country, although this trend reversed course quickly during the recession.”

But he said a still-recovering job market in Alberta means a quick return to the pace of migration seen during the boom is unlikely.
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% N0 v* m3 {2 K( qStatistics Canada said Alberta’s population in the second quarter climbed by 18,538, or 0.5 per cent, to 3.72 million.

# h+ G9 C6 [3 L$ v" {# nThat was the highest increase rate among provinces and includes arrivals from other provinces and countries, as well as births.
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. k0 o- R7 h! A5 r6 y3 }8 h4 o+ a( a“Almost half the growth in Alberta came from natural increase, the highest proportion among the provinces,” said the federal agency.
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" b+ l/ @5 u5 j$ L# f. ?+ aSumner said the province’s strong natural increase was partly due to its population having the lowest median age at 35.8, compared to the national average of 39.7.
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7 y- J2 Z( ^+ l2 f1 e& b“More young people means more babies,” Sumner said.

( x4 `8 T) @+ c3 r7 UAs of July 1, Canada’s population was estimated at 34.1 million, up 120,800 or 0.36 per cent from April 1.

pcmouse

今年三月底时应发一个新闻：
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一个实实在在的坏消息：Alberta lost 2,200 people to other provinces

UncleSam

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, x2 }) [4 b8 E/ [3 e. Jno. between 2009 and this year, a loss of 2,200, which means before the second quarter of this year, from 2009 to march this year, a net loss of 5020 (2,200 plus 2,820) to other provinces.
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! |/ H  m3 F- H" w0 \; Hanyway, a very nice reversal, gaining half of the loss of about 2 years in one quarter.