Economists at Toronto-Dominion Bank estimated that the province’s gross domestic product will expand by a healthy 2.3 per cent this year
It was closing in on 11 p.m. MT when I stepped out of Calgary airport a few nights ago, but you wouldn’t have guessed it from the traffic mayhem outside the arrivals doors.
Not an unusual scene at any major airport in a large North American city. But this isn’t New York: It’sThis is pretty much how it has looked every time I’ve made the trip to my hometown this year. There are a lot of people coming and going – but, as the data show, mostly coming.’s midyear update of population and demographics, released last week, showed that as the Canadian population booms, Alberta is the booming-est place of all.
But Brad Parry, head of Calgary Economic Development, insists that the current population boom isn’t the strictly oil-driven phenomenon of previous decades. “It’s a combination of the opportunities, the diversification, the growth and the lifestyle, I think, is what has been driving us.”
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