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Alberta votes to stay in Canada, CBC News projects (www.cbc.ca)
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  • Albertans have voted to remain in Canada, CBC News projects, rejecting the proposal to begin the separation process.
  • Early results in the province's referendum show more than three-quarters of votes in favour of staying part of the country.
  • Supporters at the Forever Canadian watch party broke into cheers and waved Canadian flags when they saw the first results on a screen.
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[–] 3 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

The other 9 questions are just as stupid, they just didn't get as much press. Most of them were worded so poorly that they could be interpreted however you liked and most of those interpretations aren't constitutional, so it's a meaningless result.

And all of this was a non-binding referendum anyway. The government can do whatever it wants with the results, as it always could.

We're not "fucked", we're just sick of this waste of time and money.

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  • [–] 1 point 20 hours ago (2 children)

    I think we are fucked because to me this indicates this province is continuing to vote with 0 information on gut feeling and bigotry which means we are staring down the barrel of more of this kind of politics in the future

    Alberta basically just showed canada they are fine with the UCP and likely to vote them in again... we are fucked

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    I think we are fucked because to me this indicates this province is continuing to vote with 0 information on gut feeling and bigotry which means we are staring down the barrel of more of this kind of politics in the future

    Welcome to democracy. The worst form of government aside from all the others.

    Where do you expect to find a place where the people vote on a basis other than gut feeling?

    Alberta basically just showed canada they are fine with the UCP and likely to vote them in again

    Do you have a basis for this other than gut feeling? Current projections on 388 have the UCP ahead by a single seat, and of course that's based on polling that came out before the referendum. I think calling a UCP victory in the next election "likely" is not supported by the data.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago*

    Ive lived here for long enough to know that those polls showing an NDP lead mean nothing. Alberta is absolutely everything it gets accused of being and I have 20 years in this shithole of never being proven wrong minus the ONE time people tried voting differently and I STILL HEAR BITCHING about those 4 years like it was ever worse than 40 years of conservative mismanagement

    "Democracy" just determined immigrants here should be a secondary class of citizen and be denied access to services. Alberta deserves what it will get.

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