Den Tandt: Census shows Ontario no longer a place to grow
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Tandt+Census+shows+slow+fade+Ontario/6120192/story.html
Depressing news are coming from census 2011. News in web is
Ontario is a dying place. More people are moving to west of the country. Lot of people seems moving To Saskatchewan. I still think Toronto is a wonderful city. It can be a financial centre
And knowledge based economy city.
Alberta , Calgary is challenging Toronto on financial side and Vancouver challenging Toronto on knowledge based economy side
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infocan
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Originally posted by ashedfc
To get out of this black-hole Ontario needs to reinvent itself & generate new areas of growth or cut cost (layoff public employees, reduce budget in spending projects which is always politically impossible)
But instead of that what they are doing..putting cameras on traffic lights, making healthcare more miserable than ever, an ambitious mayor who took the challenge to cut the cost, they are posing him as a villain.
Things are not bad as headlines says. % of people may be moving but still
we have large number on east side. Brampton goes up to 9th position from 11th as the largest city in canada. I am surprise that vancourver is only one step ahead. I thought ot it being major city
The top 15, with 2011/2006 population numbers, are:
1. Toronto (2,615,060/2,503,281). Ranked 1 in 2006;
2. Montreal (1,649,519/1,620,693). Ranked 2 in 2006;
3. Calgary (1.1 million/989,000). Ranked 3 in 2006;
4. Ottawa (883,391/812,129). Ranked 4 in 2006;
5. Edmonton (812,201/730,372). Ranked 5 in 2006;
6. Mississauga (713,443/668,599). Ranked 6 in 2006;
7. Winnipeg (663,617/633,451). Ranked 7 in 2006;
8. Vancouver (603,502/578,041). Ranked 8 in 2006;
9. Brampton (523,911/433,806). Ranked 11 in 2006;
10. Hamilton (519,949/504,559). Ranked 9 in 2006;
11. Quebec City (516,622/491,142). Ranked 10 in 2006;
12. Surrey (468,251/394,976). Ranked 12 in 2006;
13. Laval (401,553/368,709). Ranked 14 in 2006;
14. Halifax (390,096/372/679). Ranked 13 in 2006;
15. London (366,151/352,395). Ranked 15 in 2006.
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infocan
Location: Somewhere in dreamland
Posted on: 11-02-12 08:31:37
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Originally posted by infocan
Things are not bad as headlines says. % of people may be moving but still
we have large number on east side. Brampton goes up to 9th position from 11th as the largest city in canada. I am surprise that vancourver is only one step ahead. I thought ot it being major city
Vancouver is a major city.
Brampton is part of Greater Toronto.
Greater Vancouver metropolitan area has a population of more than 2.3 million residents, making it the third most populous metropolitan area in the country.
