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$ { A, [8 q$ F# q$ d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。
$ ?5 Y6 T/ B9 r1 [! T1 e0 R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! E3 V f6 o/ ~! @) R N
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( M! ?: Z$ L+ JEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth. W5 d- t: A. b( i$ b
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Statistics 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.
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* z9 M$ Z& s* A+ m# y, rThe 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./ n7 `* e3 Q) p- {+ N2 c% v# j
" E) R; O0 A$ j8 }Edmonton 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.' `' C# { t4 n4 J
+ J* ^5 _2 }* P6 n, c) w$ o0 X"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."# w% Z) |7 g- b$ Q( N6 ?) F* g, K
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