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, b8 }* z5 y6 d+ ~. L- B. g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。
. C' i# k; x, N. [9 S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! & a" ] l3 _% _* T
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8 c; t* a8 L8 j% S( BEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.! s) ?0 i8 Y/ t
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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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* n4 y0 T4 ^! `& i& ]Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.: Z% y* `8 R$ Q* ]$ R. O: V! U2 L3 ?
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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./ K8 X" [% N3 K9 d9 `
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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."8 r3 w. H( `; j1 d2 d' j& w/ [
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