Moncton, NB has now been the fastest growing city in Canada for 2 years now (2022 and 2023) and is on track for 2024 as well, in 2024, Moncton is now at 180,000 people!
An interesting fact about Manitoba is that WInnipeg is the most dominant city, population-wise, compared to the rest of its province. As such, you sometimes see an imbalance in regional representation. For that reason, I think if Canada ever wanted to do a Washington DC style form of governance.. ie, not have the federal seat of power as a subordinate of its own state (Ottawa), it would be the best option. Redraw the boundaries of Manitoba to the city itself, and carve up the territory outside the city for Sask and Ontario jurisdiction. Given the neutral location of the city (neither east coast nor west coast), I think it would be the more impartial, and thus you'd see less corruption than we see now. I can guarantee people from Alberta would rather see Winnipeg as the capital, rather than Ottawa. Another thing to ponder, about these city-states is that they typically cannot feed themselves, without the cooperation of their neighbors, thus, forcing them to be fair and non-totalitarian. Ottawa, currently, can always fund Bay street banks in Toronto, to be taken care of, in the event they act unfairly. In fact, that's exactly what has been happening for decades.
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Halifax is well over 500,000 now
One thing about CMAs is that Stats Can has said that a CMA, once created, can never be dissolved. So if a CMA shrinks, it will remain a CMA. And more importantly, if you have 2 CMAs that are growing side by side, they can never be combined. This is becoming a bit of an issue in BC, Ontario and Quebec, as the Vancouver CMA is rubbing shoulders with its neighbours, as are some of the Ontario ones (Kitchener/Cambridge/Waterloo with Guelph and probably London soon, along with Toronto with Hamilton). I'm pretty sure Montreal's bumping into some CMAs as well but I haven't checked for certain.
I’m sure newer data would show Oshawa’s CMA growing faster than London. It’s been a boomtown the past few years
Sherbrooke is far from being a beautiful city, but the area around it is gorgeous.
Great vid
To quote Family Guy, "5's and 6's, that's where the bargains are!"... That's why Edmonton is growing in fact the fastest in Canada over a sustained 10-year timeframe but second only to Orlando over the last 10 years with a 22% growth rate to O-Town's 23%... Austin, Texas Edmonton's American twin city was also growing at 22% and ditto with Calgary which was growing much faster but because of cost of living issues has slowed... Even our families childhood home sold in one day over listing and we're from the least desirable part of Edmonton...
It will be interesting to do the same with the coming 2026 census, which will show the full pandemic population reshuffle. Quite a few of these metro area are still hot spot to move to.^_^
The Calgary CMA does not include any of The Municipal District of Foothills which borders Calgary on it’s southern limit. The district is huge and goes all the way to the American border and therefore is not included. The means Heritage Point which is right on Calgary’s southern limit. Okotoks, a town of 35,000 is less than 10 minutes from Calgary and is not included. If I had to guess I would say Calgary’s CMA should include another 75,000 people because Stats Can only considers full and not partial jurisdictions. I’m sure other CMAs have the same issue.
RAAHHHH EDMONTON MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯 WTF IS WARM WEATHER????????
Now we know where to avoid when considering a move.
The Toronto Metro Area isn't it's CMA, it's the GTA, which excludes a lot of that empty area, and includes Burlington
340k for Saskatoon now.
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