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

衣食住行

Gain of 2,820 from other provinces follows losses
( s, T8 b- o, TFrom Today's Edmonton Journal

, N: U8 C* l2 e# `& kMigration to Alberta from other provinces jumped in the second quarter, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
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% q8 D" U: y7 {4 F" f+ YFrom April 1 to July 1, a net total of 2,820 Canadians moved to Alberta.
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That means people from other provinces are being drawn by Alberta’s economy after months of dwindling or negative interprovin-cial migration to Alberta.

; r) N( G# i! Z9 U' v" hOnly 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.

It was the first time Alberta had lost more people than it gained since 1994-95.

6 Q% S. c  r5 ?* u  t! MIt followed a peak during 200506 when 45,800 interprovincial migrants arrived.
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# G$ [* t# b  b- x' JATB 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.
5 P) P! y! L0 |) P! V3 W“The main factor driving Canadians to move between provinces is jobs and job prospects.

" B4 b$ i0 E) S  s+ c5 _“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.”

1 |' S9 R! F+ j' aBut he said a still-recovering job market in Alberta means a quick return to the pace of migration seen during the boom is unlikely.
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& o; s' x6 _8 u7 _Statistics 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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That was the highest increase rate among provinces and includes arrivals from other provinces and countries, as well as births.

+ ]! a; o- K6 O9 \& X“Almost half the growth in Alberta came from natural increase, the highest proportion among the provinces,” said the federal agency.

5 B( j# n, ~$ h( _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.

0 G$ @% A3 G- \1 A9 t9 I8 S3 U“More young people means more babies,” Sumner said.

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：
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" i9 r" r$ h3 ~- U# Z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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: N% A1 d+ U' J) s& V% V# r  Xno. 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.

anyway, a very nice reversal, gaining half of the loss of about 2 years in one quarter.