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Thompson Mayor Tim Johnston is skeptical about taking the latest census figures for his city at face value. The new Statistics Canada figures show the northern city dropped by 617 people between 2006 and 2011. That officially gives Thompson 12,829 people, meaning it is no longer the province's third-largest city, but the fifth-largest. 'There are people I've talked to who don't believe that's the number, either,' said Johnston. Johnston also challenged the accuracy of the 2006 census, arguing the population was really between 15,000 and 16,000, not 13,446. Overtaking Thompson in the latest census were Steinbach (13,524 residents) and Portage la Prairie (12,996). _ With notes from the Thompson Citizen
