{"id":72337,"date":"2026-10-21T04:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/?p=72337"},"modified":"2026-10-21T04:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:10:27","slug":"prime-minister-carney-thrilled-that-albertans-have-chosen-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/?p=72337","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Carney &#8216;thrilled that Albertans have chosen unity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sc-7z26hc-0 huvIRK\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72340\" src=\"http:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mark-carney-2454.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Albertans have voted to remain in Canada, CBC News projects, rejecting the proposal to begin the separation process. Results so far are roughly 75-25 for the \u201cremain\u201d side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/div>\n<section dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"sc-7z26hc-0 huvIRK\">\n<div class=\"sc-1tu7x1n-0 bMYQV skip-link\">\n<div class=\"sc-heu7al-0 hHmuVo html-attachment data-wrapper-attachment\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Albertans have voted to remain in Canada, CBC News projects, rejecting the proposal to begin the separation process. Results so far are roughly 75-25 for the \u201cremain\u201d side.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Albertans have voted to remain in Canada, CBC News projects, rejecting the proposal to begin the separation process. Results so far are roughly 75-25 for the \u201cremain\u201d side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"sc-1osjw4m-1 liJxQo\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Latest<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney said they were pleased with the result, two prominent separatists said they were awaiting full tallies before drawing final conclusions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who welcomed the result, said the focus now should be on affordability, safety and &#8220;less immigration.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The other nine referendum questions \u2014 on immigration and constitutional issues \u2014 are closer but mostly for \u201cyes\u201d so far. Smith had said she needed \u201cyes\u201d votes on those questions to have a mandate to bargain with Carney.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Smith will address the province at 6:45 p.m. MT.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albertans have voted to remain in Canada, CBC News projects, rejecting the proposal to begin the separation process. Results so far are roughly 75-25 for the \u201cremain\u201d side. Albertans have voted to remain in Canada, CBC News projects, rejecting the proposal to begin the separation process. Results so far are roughly 75-25 for the \u201cremain\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":72340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-198"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72341,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72337\/revisions\/72341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}