一个实实在在的好消息：Alberta rebounds as magnet for job seekers

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Gain of 2,820 from other provinces follows losses
" }* _5 P2 S" b# v! g3 V; Z* K8 WFrom Today's Edmonton Journal
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Migration to Alberta from other provinces jumped in the second quarter, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.

From April 1 to July 1, a net total of 2,820 Canadians moved to Alberta.

That 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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Only 312 Canadians moved to Alberta in the first three months of the year and Alberta posted net losses in the two quarters before that.

$ m4 x( N* O; j6 V) H! t  P# \! yBetween 2009 and this year, Alberta lost 2,200 people to other provinces.
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9 X4 s+ q% M/ Y7 l/ m, D# BIt 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.
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6 b1 b' Q+ ^4 m: ?2 Y+ AATB 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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2 O- \* q2 P8 Q3 G- _6 a( O' o“Alberta just experienced its most solid quarter of interprovincial migration in a year,” Sumner said.
8 [6 L' d" `: ?  l! a“The main factor driving Canadians to move between provinces is jobs and job prospects.
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1 G2 K" a( J/ }2 `' O$ U“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.”
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But he said a still-recovering job market in Alberta means a quick return to the pace of migration seen during the boom is unlikely.

" e7 S+ `* Q0 S; `% J; \5 X/ D# {5 J, XStatistics Canada said Alberta’s population in the second quarter climbed by 18,538, or 0.5 per cent, to 3.72 million.
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" O8 i( U4 w( m# J6 R$ H- {; M( W+ ^That was the highest increase rate among provinces and includes arrivals from other provinces and countries, as well as births.

" s. s3 i* U9 c7 @" i( _“Almost half the growth in Alberta came from natural increase, the highest proportion among the provinces,” said the federal agency.

1 K* _) [5 ~: n8 x" E7 {1 kSumner 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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8 l- ~6 P1 b/ r3 v“More young people means more babies,” Sumner said.

6 S' D& c# {" MAs of July 1, Canada’s population was estimated at 34.1 million, up 120,800 or 0.36 per cent from April 1.

pcmouse

今年三月底时应发一个新闻：
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& U. L# y9 Y. ]1 \) N1 ~  u一个实实在在的坏消息：Alberta lost 2,200 people to other provinces

UncleSam

2# pcmouse

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# W( S6 N* Y6 v. S9 {& d: H2 \no. between 2009 and this year, a loss of 2,200, which means before the second quarter of this year, from 2009 to march this year, a net loss of 5020 (2,200 plus 2,820) to other provinces.
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( ]( u4 z; M( H4 Aanyway, a very nice reversal, gaining half of the loss of about 2 years in one quarter.