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From Today's Edmonton Journal, q0 W: ` Q& T2 v U% c+ u6 K! n
5 [: W t" K1 ~* {Migration to Alberta from other provinces jumped in the second quarter, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
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0 @* Q/ {9 B o4 u, WFrom April 1 to July 1, a net total of 2,820 Canadians moved to Alberta. ; b6 y2 K5 L5 i% l/ L8 E) V, O
- y2 T1 L* A2 EThat 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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8 [2 v# z( \8 e: \' e ^% \# H# Y5 LOnly 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.
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It was the first time Alberta had lost more people than it gained since 1994-95.
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It followed a peak during 200506 when 45,800 interprovincial migrants arrived. & }1 z/ D M# f: N4 c# C
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ATB 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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“Alberta just experienced its most solid quarter of interprovincial migration in a year,” Sumner said.
$ G5 p6 P5 U" o6 o“The main factor driving Canadians to move between provinces is jobs and job prospects.
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0 o( \2 h% \. c7 m; [2 w3 z“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.” , m: i- X4 c+ h' X
/ n+ T U& X! I% MBut he said a still-recovering job market in Alberta means a quick return to the pace of migration seen during the boom is unlikely. $ B+ ?* A$ Q5 f: F1 T) G6 U
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Statistics Canada said Alberta’s population in the second quarter climbed by 18,538, or 0.5 per cent, to 3.72 million. # y6 I9 J/ H: `
) ~4 q0 D6 y; m# L$ @/ ~That was the highest increase rate among provinces and includes arrivals from other provinces and countries, as well as births. * s; M3 w* b) w u
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“Almost half the growth in Alberta came from natural increase, the highest proportion among the provinces,” said the federal agency. + }5 r( k% Y" x2 z# ?% U
6 c* \3 S( M: b. c2 VSumner 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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“More young people means more babies,” Sumner said.
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As of July 1, Canada’s population was estimated at 34.1 million, up 120,800 or 0.36 per cent from April 1. |
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