一个实实在在的好消息：Alberta rebounds as magnet for job seekers

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Gain of 2,820 from other provinces follows losses
1 d& t( Y. t. m# f7 b, E$ c8 u- ?: vFrom Today's Edmonton Journal
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Migration to Alberta from other provinces jumped in the second quarter, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.

From April 1 to July 1, a net total of 2,820 Canadians moved to Alberta.

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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Only 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.

It was the first time Alberta had lost more people than it gained since 1994-95.

* S3 i' M9 r, ~5 `3 bIt followed a peak during 200506 when 45,800 interprovincial migrants arrived.

$ t9 g1 U  W; M# n+ A* U2 tATB 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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- F0 {) R5 ?: d, t+ c“Alberta just experienced its most solid quarter of interprovincial migration in a year,” Sumner said.
" W* K( f# p: v8 Q, u2 k“The main factor driving Canadians to move between provinces is jobs and job prospects.
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2 p/ }6 e! E# i# G& w3 W! a“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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0 d  N: `+ o" o4 iBut he said a still-recovering job market in Alberta means a quick return to the pace of migration seen during the boom is unlikely.

/ ?& l2 E- t7 q1 }% I1 B5 n; VStatistics Canada said Alberta’s population in the second quarter climbed by 18,538, or 0.5 per cent, to 3.72 million.

0 n0 w1 T2 g$ q  P% k4 X; \3 }9 N3 ?That was the highest increase rate among provinces and includes arrivals from other provinces and countries, as well as births.
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. d2 E" J+ d0 f+ P$ s“Almost half the growth in Alberta came from natural increase, the highest proportion among the provinces,” said the federal agency.
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Sumner 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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, P8 A! Y; S! s  Y“More young people means more babies,” Sumner said.

As 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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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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7 ~4 P% n* v$ D/ Q& w6 ]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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% U& M4 N/ T9 n. w  X. n  h) v! \/ Vanyway, a very nice reversal, gaining half of the loss of about 2 years in one quarter.