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
2 W$ w, N" I: E7 i$ Q4 dFrom Today's Edmonton Journal

Migration to Alberta from other provinces jumped in the second quarter, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
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5 U) B- c4 D; t8 OFrom April 1 to July 1, a net total of 2,820 Canadians moved to Alberta.

* n, ]% ?7 Y- y: d6 L2 WThat 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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% p! P5 {9 A4 }$ POnly 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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" `  t. {: g0 u; l( b5 w4 D/ fBetween 2009 and this year, Alberta lost 2,200 people to other provinces.

# C: F7 K/ k5 `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.

1 L; T) k. `( s2 ?$ q5 BATB 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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2 {, p5 ]& e8 }) c& \, X“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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“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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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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Statistics 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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2 i( G" i9 o+ [That 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.

9 ~4 t& Z  H5 \8 D4 W1 HSumner 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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6 q* P  J5 @' c8 B8 L“More young people means more babies,” Sumner said.

7 u3 C6 q+ C- S' w- R4 J; B, n2 p! d* VAs 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：

/ }( t( a8 ]8 c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.
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" r" t8 Z' s+ @+ }& |anyway, a very nice reversal, gaining half of the loss of about 2 years in one quarter.