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4 L8 A3 w$ b% g9 o' }! |( V- y& d$ J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。
+ |* n3 O' B7 m' g# L4 \4 x7 K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！ 0 h7 d* @0 S {4 m
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: y6 _3 K, U0 {. XEdmonton'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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. A- F s4 _! H. [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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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.
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8 V: C% t0 g* b' d8 @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.) _* g. j) A! {3 {7 L% `" ?. P! {
, q% ~- t4 L# N" X& ?- o"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."7 L: r; d" ]1 N' t5 C9 b. _" I
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