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Oil-rich Alberta votes on Canada breakup

Global Published 20 October 2026, 06:44 · archived 20 Oct 2026

EDMONTON, (Canada): Canada’s province of Alberta votes Monday on whether to hold a binding referendum on splitting from the country, with Prime Minister Mark Carney warning a separatist win would trigger crippling uncertainty during a crisis in US relations. Polls indicate less than a quarter of people in the western Canadian province support independence. But attention has focused on turnout in the days before the vote, and whether a motivated separatist camp could defy the polls, helped by complacency on the federalist side. “Canada is worth fighting for,” Carney said Monday in a post on X, ...

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