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

衣食住行

Gain of 2,820 from other provinces follows losses
From Today's Edmonton Journal
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' z! ~/ A0 @) R# U/ C) \/ \Migration to Alberta from other provinces jumped in the second quarter, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.

/ G* q0 v4 U& e3 B- zFrom April 1 to July 1, a net total of 2,820 Canadians moved to Alberta.

" `# }2 ^: K4 M* T8 V' AThat 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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2 l' x) {4 Y: `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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+ k" t: V7 d' T, @+ ]Between 2009 and this year, Alberta lost 2,200 people to other provinces.

8 Z+ K0 t* C; i, y) _It was the first time Alberta had lost more people than it gained since 1994-95.
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& A# N5 v5 z6 GIt followed a peak during 200506 when 45,800 interprovincial migrants arrived.
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, `+ U2 Q( L  u9 HATB 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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& I9 d& Z9 X9 \3 n) v  y- R“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.
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) T( V5 J$ P) ]6 I% z) x. T) g“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.”
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# {" J* g8 T  K4 f. d/ ?, P* m4 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.
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1 P* j5 T' U. @+ T  zStatistics Canada said Alberta’s population in the second quarter climbed by 18,538, or 0.5 per cent, to 3.72 million.
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5 \- I& H/ `0 j$ O% c. y: BThat was the highest increase rate among provinces and includes arrivals from other provinces and countries, as well as births.
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“Almost half the growth in Alberta came from natural increase, the highest proportion among the provinces,” said the federal agency.

* W1 ?/ m& n% L  D$ L" y- oSumner 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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; x% E1 C0 W3 x2 G& s“More young people means more babies,” Sumner said.
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" ~8 u+ }6 z# [5 R: r7 z& ?: w/ ~1 @As 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

2# pcmouse


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.

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