Alberta rejects separation referendum: What’s next for Canadian province?
Calls for independence intensified last year, with some 300,000 petitioning officials for a referendum.
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Calls for independence intensified last year, with some 300,000 petitioning officials for a referendum.
Canada's province of Alberta rejected a plan to hold a binding independence referendum, results showed Tuesday, a win for unity as the country faces worsening ties with the United States. With more than 1.5 million votes counted, 76% supported remaining in Canada, while close to 24% backed beginning a process toward separation, according to unofficial results from Elections Alberta.
The Alberta referendum result was a decisive unity signal, yet it leaves pipeline, regulatory and trade risks for US investors fully intact. The post What the Alberta Referendum Result Means for Canada appeared first on The Rio Times.
Most voters in the Canadian province of Alberta have rejected a proposal to hold a referendum on independence.
With more than one million votes counted, about 76 percent supported remaining in Canada.
Voters in Canada’s oil-rich Alberta province were deciding on Monday whether to begin a process that could lead to independence, testing national unity as Canadians rally against US President Donald Trump’s trade war and threats to claim Canada as the 51st US state. Monday’s vote is not a direct referendum on independence. Alberta, home to most of Canada’s proven oil reserves – the fourth largest in the world – will decide whether to remain a province or begin the legal process towards a future...
Voters in Canada’s oil-rich Alberta province overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada, with early referendum results Tuesday delivering a boost to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push for national unity amid US President Donald Trump’s trade war and annexation threats. With more than 1 million votes counted, 77 per cent supported remaining in Canada, while 23 per cent backed beginning a process towards separation, according to unofficial results from Elections Alberta. The referendum was not a...
Voters in oil-rich Alberta overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada in the province's first-ever referendum on separation, with early results on Tuesday delivering a boost to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push for national unity amid US President Donald Trump’s trade war and annexation threats.
Alberta’s independence movement faces likely defeat, but history suggests losing a referendum may not end the fight.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's Thanksgiving message comes a week ahead of Alberta's referendum to secede.
Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said the UK is “clear” there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. He said that when he entered No 10 Downing Street a few months ago, he had asked whether Moscow interfered in the 2016 vote on whether to leave the EU and was given “the clear answer that yes there was”. The prime minister said he believes it is important to put this “clearly on the record” to help voters in Germany and France understand that “some of this politics is...
Alberta votes on Monday, 19 October 2026, with 10 questions on the ballot. Question 10 on separation is non-binding, and the oil stakes reach US refiners. The post Alberta’s 19 October Referendum Explained appeared first on The Rio Times.
Parti Quebecois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon vows a future referendum on independence from Canada.
Parti Quebecois returns to power, promising a third referendum on Quebec's independence from Canada.
Swiss voters on Sunday roundly rejected a proposal to tighten their country’s neutrality, final results showed, dismissing an initiative championed by the hard-right and dubbed “pro-Russian” by opponents. While the Swiss widely embrace their neutrality, the initiative to enshrine a strict definition into the constitution exposed deep disagreement over what that neutrality entails. The proposal was rejected by 70.1 per cent of voters, according to the final results. “This result is not a vote...