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g! |2 m) H' _& j7 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。
3 k! D! W# S5 t2 \: v9 t5 B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! : E0 }) q" ~% ]3 n
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9 W3 E& g0 C* |* `" rEdmonton'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 O& r' r6 d! A5 k! q4 V& UStatistics 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.- H8 [1 e1 H% _! ~0 F
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.2 s9 ?+ p1 A5 y3 u N
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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.' T' y5 c2 g. s3 X6 R
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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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9 m6 p2 v ~0 ?0 n"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."
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