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
From Today's Edmonton Journal
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+ d3 k- c9 b' }% f( S8 @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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That means people from other provinces are being drawn by Alberta’s economy after months of dwindling or negative interprovin-cial migration to Alberta.

8 _- m& u/ p8 IOnly 312 Canadians moved to Alberta in the first three months of the year and Alberta posted net losses in the two quarters before that.
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* S! ?0 Y2 M& Q6 m9 D. uBetween 2009 and this year, Alberta lost 2,200 people to other provinces.

) P* y4 R$ M2 L' D4 H# ?3 jIt was the first time Alberta had lost more people than it gained since 1994-95.
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6 m6 p, {3 w1 uIt followed a peak during 200506 when 45,800 interprovincial migrants arrived.
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ATB 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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' ^) |  F( s' h2 Y' t) j“Alberta just experienced its most solid quarter of interprovincial migration in a year,” Sumner said.
“The main factor driving Canadians to move between provinces is jobs and job prospects.

6 G$ W( ?1 j3 |; s: z“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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3 ]' a. J+ d/ \# q) k/ O8 Q# @' o; @, @Statistics Canada said Alberta’s population in the second quarter climbed by 18,538, or 0.5 per cent, to 3.72 million.

1 {7 _9 k  r, N0 K/ z. v7 yThat was the highest increase rate among provinces and includes arrivals from other provinces and countries, as well as births.
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) D) @' i; C, H5 X: I2 `' M/ d# I/ O' S“Almost half the growth in Alberta came from natural increase, the highest proportion among the provinces,” said the federal agency.
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Sumner 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.

. Z1 B7 t. \7 K2 l- V3 ?“More young people means more babies,” Sumner said.

1 U+ J5 C/ x! f/ [( @8 U3 I4 ZAs 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：

一个实实在在的坏消息：Alberta lost 2,200 people to other provinces

UncleSam

2# pcmouse
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) }/ H0 `; A( u$ e7 Nno. 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.

anyway, a very nice reversal, gaining half of the loss of about 2 years in one quarter.