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本帖最后由 青萝 于 2012-2-9 21:35 编辑 . E& q# _! C) }2 M0 `4 _- B2 E
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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。* R+ G r2 W5 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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) T9 r: F$ C7 m$ FEdmonton'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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/ w4 X! q: m& V. P7 W, \Statistics 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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: D. M" U: ~" }( M5 wCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.* {7 _9 Z+ d* C. ]( v1 f# a' J
6 Y$ v9 M9 A5 j* [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.# p# V E! Q! Q% L
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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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"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."9 ~) B: D, A+ |5 ^1 k6 {
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