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( t. C7 M/ o) O9 l& q5 q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。
( {3 p8 F; j/ ^+ Q! w4 M: |1 T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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% W- d7 r1 x) c) pEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.* P* o; U9 e2 z8 V. _# A# k
4 j7 L, H! M( ?3 F1 h1 o) v/ H/ e) sStatistics 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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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. }* y1 G8 W/ G% C: |! M: Z1 M/ m
+ D) t9 J. x9 `4 B7 a* y5 zEdmonton 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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) }. `; p8 A R* A6 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."
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