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+ o! `: A0 i5 x: s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。1 G+ Z+ K4 _+ j' g; i( ^
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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& g7 m% \2 v- X2 u6 QEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.' f) V: n4 F. {. o1 z( a. u
$ Y% g$ ?3 g# }7 V6 e9 pStatistics 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.5 J' A {! N* X7 |, z9 i- R
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011./ G3 P& \. S# j! e8 E6 {7 M9 l
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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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5 |0 F( H9 T2 NEdmonton 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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, o; W+ b7 V% q5 Q% J"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.": Z) ?4 d7 u7 ~
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