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本帖最后由 青萝 于 2012-2-9 21:35 编辑 1 r# V4 c; w4 p* \6 Q
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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。3 L- Z: ^5 |+ x. d [! 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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; E' H7 t& e5 i* W% u4 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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3 Y; u0 k" D$ f. CStatistics 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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/ i; v$ h, l! ]7 h& fCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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' u. a7 y O+ r/ W! G; D0 CThe 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.# d3 E1 ^. x1 v- x" X
8 F9 C3 x1 _4 j4 N( B- LEdmonton 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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- u) e# z/ W3 u"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."0 {; e; c) j+ t0 c
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