Paula Simons: Record number of immigrants choose Alberta

Traditionally, newcomers to Canada have chosen to live in Canada’s biggest cities — Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Alberta, despite its strong economy and its relatively low cost of living, was rarely their first choice.
No longer.
Statistics Canada census data released Wednesday shows 207,790 people immigrated to Alberta from other countries over the last census period, from 2011 to 2016.
Over that same five-year period, only 175,555 immigrants moved to British Columbia.
That mean