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
; @, I8 R) T8 `- O# U6 g4 lFrom Today's Edmonton Journal

3 z1 X+ l' Z! Z- j  P8 b0 i: AMigration to Alberta from other provinces jumped in the second quarter, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
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From April 1 to July 1, a net total of 2,820 Canadians moved to Alberta.
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That 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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6 p8 F; c1 x4 ~" VOnly 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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Between 2009 and this year, Alberta lost 2,200 people to other provinces.

  _8 d! T( W, x9 I0 T+ V- jIt was the first time Alberta had lost more people than it gained since 1994-95.
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It followed a peak during 200506 when 45,800 interprovincial migrants arrived.
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ATB 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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“Alberta just experienced its most solid quarter of interprovincial migration in a year,” Sumner said.
0 R1 O  ^1 o) q8 W% h2 z( w7 z“The main factor driving Canadians to move between provinces is jobs and job prospects.

“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.”

+ i: d! Y$ \. Z8 D3 e8 e6 s" O, w" H' MBut 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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$ x: T3 r/ E" dStatistics Canada said Alberta’s population in the second quarter climbed by 18,538, or 0.5 per cent, to 3.72 million.

( k4 h( ~. c0 K4 M5 Y2 oThat was the highest increase rate among provinces and includes arrivals from other provinces and countries, as well as births.

. v. K( P/ }. a+ F3 B9 E5 T“Almost half the growth in Alberta came from natural increase, the highest proportion among the provinces,” said the federal agency.

6 G  y/ @0 f1 Q0 `6 u" XSumner 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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# ~7 _# I5 Z8 y; P. o$ P+ }8 o“More young people means more babies,” Sumner said.
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% v* D& u' `5 f: m0 d3 TAs 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：
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% H; ?: C: k/ `6 p; I一个实实在在的坏消息：Alberta lost 2,200 people to other provinces

UncleSam

2# pcmouse

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+ X1 ^" ]3 v' i$ ono. 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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anyway, a very nice reversal, gaining half of the loss of about 2 years in one quarter.