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! ^+ K, ]* z9 r5 Y/ Q5 Q* l: F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。
0 k9 b9 Q; V2 e: |5 m, P$ M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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3 d6 @& I( d! e" j3 J1 u$ 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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+ _0 E$ |" c/ J8 o; BStatistics 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.- }/ ?9 T* u. r( J
% l: {# z, T5 O% g1 m' hCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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& d; v# z+ B0 v. kThe 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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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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7 }# g& C8 `+ a7 x( t9 L) c"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."
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