Grease...
Sorry, I confused metro pop with city proper pop.
STILL...
2001 Actual* 2004 Estimate
Edmonton City Proper: 666,104 707,271
Edmonton Metro Area: 937,845 999,769
That's a heck of a lot of communities and people the city likes to include in it's metro pop. The actual population of Edmonton according to their own civic census is still less that 700,000. And if you look at the maps, they draw the lines WILDLY ouside the civic area when talking about metro pop.
As for the rest of the thread...
If this is the same poll that ranked us 1st in cleanliness last year, and often ranks Vancouver in the top 3 overall in the world, it's an international organzation used for expats when they are considering moving cities and countries because of business moves. Edmonton is not on this list because they gauge it as basically the same as Calgary. Calgary got picked of the two because we're larger with a stronger commercial,m banking, and head office base and more expats. At least that's what the news said last year. Places like Bern are listed even though they might be smaller because they don't have a comparative city.
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