Population Growth Boosts Atlantic Canadian Economy in 2023
APEC says population growth has helped address labour shortages, but housing still remains a persistent challenge.
APEC says population growth has helped address labour shortages, but housing still remains a persistent challenge.
The number of new homes has been increasing in the last three years, “but the reality is that we are behind.”
Opinion: Our leaders continue to set ambitious immigration targets, apparently based on their unwavering belief that more people is always better, no matter what. But is it?
New estimates show the population of the Moncton area grew by 5.3 percent between July 2021 and July 2022.
Opinion: Immigration numbers in Atlantic Canada are impressive but we must do better to capitalize on people’s desire to move here.
The provincial population has grown by more than 40,000 over the past five years, including an increase of 15,000 people in the last year.
David Campbell says there’s no point growing New Brunswick’s population to 1 million people unless alot of them can fill the hundreds of thousands of job vacancies the province can expect in the next 20 years.
Numbers released Wednesday by Statistics Canada show the city added 2,320 residents between 2016 and 2021. That pushed the city’s total population to 69,895 people, an increase of 3.4 percent over five years.
Record population growth in the province is thanks largely to migration from other provinces and recrod-high immigration.
Halifax’s GDP is expected to grow by 5.7 percent by the end of 2021, and then return to a “more normal” range of about 2 percent in the ensuing years.