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本帖最后由 青萝 于 2012-2-9 21:35 编辑 # o+ M& G- r9 J
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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。
: G6 I! Q9 {$ H0 I& Y 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！
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" c1 g9 i2 x& R% v) E2 TEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.
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: s5 \: l1 D0 ~5 R# L, i# CStatistics 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.7 h7 J6 D0 B) i- ~
( }/ @- p) ^' y: J6 W. LCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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The 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.
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3 z7 @5 q7 n$ k2 |, i& H- }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.
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- S4 r9 J5 t" O"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."; C8 z! ~; i: ^/ C+ z0 k' m
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