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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Do you have a source for that? This article is from a week ago:
And I’d expect that there are a lot more working-age people moving from B.C to Alberta than vice-versa.
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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Maybe you have some great early insight into the 2025 numbers but the trend from StatCan looks a bit different from your claim.
These are the net BC-Alberta numbers:
2020/21 = 11,472
2021/22 = 8,301
2022/23 = -8,161
2023/24 = -11,252
2024/25 = -7,179
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Originally Posted by blankall
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...nues-1.7642490
This isn't for the entirety of 2025, but there was net migration rate of 1,025 people into Alberta, from BC, in Q2. Both provinces are growing rapidly, but BC now has a slight negative net migration.
Edit: just saw your edits. Can you post the link?
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Yes, you are all correct. I had misread a chart from Alberta showing net migration by province which showed a small negative for BC. I misinterpreted it thinking it represented Alberta's net migration with each province, rather than each province's own total.
Still, an Alberta/BC net migration of 1,000 people in a couple of provinces with over 5 million people each is essentially meaningless. And to Cliff's point, I'm not sure given the disparate unemployment rates (8.4% in Alberta vs. 6.2% in BC) that there would be a big movement of working age people from BC to Alberta right now.