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
From Today's Edmonton Journal
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2 ^6 j2 H/ Y+ k: q! I8 M) G# ?. G% M  BMigration to Alberta from other provinces jumped in the second quarter, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.

: K' o! T$ C: \- eFrom April 1 to July 1, a net total of 2,820 Canadians moved to Alberta.

' r3 G7 g6 x( {That means people from other provinces are being drawn by Alberta’s economy after months of dwindling or negative interprovin-cial migration to Alberta.

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.
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* T! }4 K+ T$ v4 K  @  \' M! t0 |Between 2009 and this year, Alberta lost 2,200 people to other provinces.
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2 Z2 `4 f' h. C  ?0 f  _It was the first time Alberta had lost more people than it gained since 1994-95.
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! y% y1 J: Z: j! vIt followed a peak during 200506 when 45,800 interprovincial migrants arrived.
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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.

0 G& U/ a3 Z& n“Alberta just experienced its most solid quarter of interprovincial migration in a year,” Sumner said.
“The main factor driving Canadians to move between provinces is jobs and job prospects.

& p( i/ j9 @7 c$ m7 v2 C; Y“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.”

' o+ |6 W/ ~  U+ P; z8 x+ iBut he said a still-recovering job market in Alberta means a quick return to the pace of migration seen during the boom is unlikely.

$ C' V( z2 ~! f- UStatistics 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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" E3 A* v+ @/ Y- w1 uThat was the highest increase rate among provinces and includes arrivals from other provinces and countries, as well as births.

1 d7 K5 _& N3 c2 c4 d# J“Almost half the growth in Alberta came from natural increase, the highest proportion among the provinces,” said the federal agency.
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Sumner 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.

pcmouse

今年三月底时应发一个新闻：

一个实实在在的坏消息：Alberta lost 2,200 people to other provinces

UncleSam

2# pcmouse


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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. O& M& s$ C: c  J' |anyway, a very nice reversal, gaining half of the loss of about 2 years in one quarter.