Halifax is growing at a moderate rate, but the question was about the overall growth of NS - not Halifax. NS essentially has a stable population, it really is not growing. Halifax can only be seen as "booming" from the perspective of Atlantic Canada, not the country as a whole. Places like Toronto, Calgary, Oshawa, K/W (just to name 4) are growing much faster. A comparison was made between Halifax and Victoria. I don't doubt that Halifax is growing faster than Victoria, but Victoria is only growing at a slow rate. In general, the rest of NS is losing population.
Places like K/W will continue to outgrow Halifax because Halifax - unlike many other cities - has largely been unable to attract immigrants.[/QUOTE
by saying that the rest of nova scotia is losing population isnt true at all either, there are other places in nova scotia that are growing at faster rates than halifax.
east hants has grown 5.3 percent in the last 5 years for example, yes there are some places that are declining typically in the cape breton region but nova scotia isn't even declining as a whole, i also read something a couple months ago that stated the industry of oil rigs or something along those lines off halifax is really going to make things go up hill for us, and that yes nova scotia WILL reach 1,000,000 probably within the next 10 years or less.
and halifax has 50,000 people on victoria and is growing faster.
as far as the "why is nova scotia better" myself.... i do think its better, because I like the ocean and "I" like the seasons the climate ect.... everyone has an oppinion if i say nova scotia is better and everything else sucks thats not a fact that everyone will live by and theres no sense arguing its what u think that matters.
as for saskatchewan being more populous look at the stats tho...
saskatchewan is like ALOT of times larger than nova scotia.
Nova Scotia - 55,490
Saskatchewan - 652,330
nova scotia fits into saskatchewan 12 times.
if the population of nova scotia was was multiplied by 12 our population would be 11,244,000 if u really wanna get down into it lol