Local voters back constitutional changes Alberta appears set to reject

MLA Glenn van Dijken weighs in on Oct. 19 referendum results Support for separation, constitutional reform, and immigration policy changes was higher in the Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock constituency than most of the rest of Alberta during the fall …

Letters: Signs of thoughtful voting one takeaway from Alberta referendum

Article content REFERENDUM POSITIVE Looking at the statistics for the questions, it clearly seems that people did not simply vote nine no or nine yes, but considered each question. That’s a clear positive, showing that Albertans did give some careful …

Smith pushes back against Alberta NDP call on province to stop fighting First Nations in court over duty to consult

Letters: The good and bad of Alberta's vote

It’s richly absurd that U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has warned Canadian politicians “to keep your nose out of American politics,” when the American administration has put its entire face into Canadian politics, from calling Canada the 51st state and the …

Alberta referendum sparks renewed call to protect public health care

The Canadian Medical Association is calling on the federal government to uphold the Canada Health Act following Alberta's Oct. 19 referendum, saying voters have sent a message about protecting publicly funded health care. In a statement released Friday …

Alberta’s New iGaming Market Is Also a Payments and Technology Story

Fans of online gaming in Canada are more than happy to see Alberta change course and allow private service providers to legally serve local residents. The headline is about liberalization of a state-controlled monopoly, but the pivot also touches on some …

Alberta’s New Political Status Quo

By Rupak Chattopadhyay October 25, 2026 While the decisive outcome of Alberta’s referendum has spared the province and the country the divisiveness of a closer call, the process that produced the 75%-25% result in favour of remaining in Canada still begs …

Alberta prepares 194 temporary hospital spaces for respiratory virus season

Alberta is preparing 194 temporary hospital spaces and has launched a program aimed at assessing emergency department patients sooner as respiratory virus season continues. Premier Danielle Smith announced Saturday that Alberta now has 9,003 acute care …

‘We think there were errors made in law’: Danielle Smith pushes back against Alberta NDP call on province to stop ...

Canada won’t see Alberta seceding anytime soon. But what to do with the people who wanted to leave?

In the end, it wasn’t even close. Alberta’s preliminary referendum results were a definitive rejection of the idea that the province would be better off as an independent country. By a 3-to-1 margin, the province chose to remain in Canada and said “no” to …