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Old Posted Oct 14, 2019, 7:37 AM
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I've often wondered why some municipalities change to have city status but other municipalities don't. I thought maybe city status added additional taxes to residents that is normally paid by Province, such as to have a city police force instead of RCMP covering community but I'm not sure. Just curious, does Fort Mac have a town police force?
Fort Mac is RCMP. As for it not being a city, I suspect it has to do with property taxes in regards to the oilsands development. It was a city unit it merged with Independent District 146 in 1996 to form the MD of Wood Buffalo. Now the oilsands, development, work camps, etc all are under the same municipal jurisdiction.

The same applies with Sherwood Park. Refinery Row and the surrounding heavy industrial is in Stathcona County, and Sherwood Park is able to benefit from the commercial/industrial tax base by being a hamlet (officially an "Urban Service Area") that's part of Strathcona. One only has to look at nearby St. Albert to see the challenges of being a city with it being almost
all residential and retail-commercial.

I do wonder if Wood Buffalo or Strathcona could become cities? Under relatively recent amalgamations, Ottawa and Halfax both have huge rural areas the would be comparable to Alberta's specialized municipalities.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...2019-1.5402484

Despite the economy, Alberta still grows...
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Figured I'd revive this thread since Alberta has become the only province with any considerable growth during the pandemic.

The only provinces registering growth over the last quarter are...

AB - 6,236
PQ - 1,208
MB - 321
YK - 124
PEI - 88


Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have faired relatively well overall, growth-wise over the last three quarters of course...

ON - 44,044
AB - 26,067
PQ - 19,129
BC - 14,276

Changes in other provinces range from -2500 (NL) to +3500 (NS)


https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1...pid=1710000901
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Figured I'd revive this thread since Alberta has become the only province with any considerable growth during the pandemic.

The only provinces registering growth over the last quarter are...

AB - 6,236
PQ - 1,208
MB - 321
YK - 124
PEI - 88


Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have faired relatively well overall, growth-wise over the last three quarters of course...

ON - 44,044
AB - 26,067
PQ - 19,129
BC - 14,276

Changes in other provinces range from -2500 (NL) to +3500 (NS)


https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1...pid=1710000901

Great to see!
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Old Posted Jul 12, 2021, 9:31 PM
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The province released its growth projections at the beginning of July, it is projecting a population of almost 6.4 million people by 2046 with 80% living within the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor; https://www.alberta.ca/population-statistics.aspx.
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Old Posted Jul 25, 2021, 8:04 PM
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^Thanks for posting that dmuzika.
Seems crazy to sit here today and think of Alberta at 6.4M in 25 years, but I hope it comes to fruition. That is the “medium growth” projection too so could be even higher.
80% of 6.4M is over 5M so both Calgary & Edmonton metros will be over 2M. I wonder if that is enough to trigger HSR between the two ?
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