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

" R% ^! U* v' q( GMigration to Alberta from other provinces jumped in the second quarter, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.

# k( r' p% r" f: tFrom April 1 to July 1, a net total of 2,820 Canadians moved to Alberta.

' c3 H2 v2 F: K4 V: UThat means people from other provinces are being drawn by Alberta’s economy after months of dwindling or negative interprovin-cial migration to Alberta.

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.
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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.

It followed a peak during 200506 when 45,800 interprovincial migrants arrived.

# E5 F' o  \6 J% z3 G: xATB Financial economist Dan Sumner said interprovincial migration is one of the best measures of the relative economic and social health of a region.

6 K; J1 d( t; q; Y2 e“Alberta just experienced its most solid quarter of interprovincial migration in a year,” Sumner said.
' Y: P& R5 W# Y$ b: A“The main factor driving Canadians to move between provinces is jobs and job prospects.
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' h; k- w8 V9 z4 R6 C“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.”

  R& w3 u; U# |2 ^0 z' N9 nBut he said a still-recovering job market in Alberta means a quick return to the pace of migration seen during the boom is unlikely.

8 A5 _0 Z: S( ]; N" B2 y8 _" TStatistics Canada said Alberta’s population in the second quarter climbed by 18,538, or 0.5 per cent, to 3.72 million.

* m; p& H' @/ L- UThat was the highest increase rate among provinces and includes arrivals from other provinces and countries, as well as births.
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* c/ d+ @, f: W& E“Almost half the growth in Alberta came from natural increase, the highest proportion among the provinces,” said the federal agency.

, n( [; s/ P. \7 M7 DSumner 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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8 O' P" Q6 ]' U' z6 J, \“More young people means more babies,” Sumner said.
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* t$ m9 z/ H, U# X" nAs 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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no. 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.

$ \0 G6 k! a9 z3 wanyway, a very nice reversal, gaining half of the loss of about 2 years in one quarter.