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本帖最后由 青萝 于 2012-2-9 21:35 编辑 % M. g" T P9 @$ Z
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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。
6 b" x) F6 }/ Z6 U( t 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！
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1 r+ o9 y8 F- C: ?7 SEdmonton'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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1 V+ Q* z K5 ?% ^9 ?% L4 yStatistics 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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4 ~ b5 G7 G$ c' E; fCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.- S, q/ Y3 [& L2 r0 a2 g* S1 ^
3 v9 U( y/ I" _/ H C: q% E9 DThe 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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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." v2 U, Y( n7 H
: X3 @7 P2 _2 o. F"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."9 d. }, J! `, e4 r4 ?1 {
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