Alberta votes Monday on path to a second independence referendum

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOn this Sunday, October 18, Alberta votes on a path to independence, and a private jet leaves a Las Vegas runway.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd actor Matthew McConaughey asks independent voters to make the midterms a fair fight.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFirst, Alberta. Polls open Monday in a referendum that has the whole country watching. Gloria Vance has more from London.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThank you, Hank. Albertans are not voting on whether to leave Canada.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThey are voting on whether to begin the legal process toward a second, binding referendum.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe ballot carries ten government-initiated questions, mostly on immigration and constitutional issues. Only one asks about independence, according to Global News.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTen questions, one about independence. The other nine are doing a lot of quiet work.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPremier Danielle Smith called the vote although she opposes independence herself.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorShe cited a poll putting support for separation at twenty-two percent, a figure she called still too high, NBC News reports.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAn Ipsos poll found seventy percent of Albertan respondents want to remain in Canada, and twenty percent want an independence referendum.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the premier opposes it, and most respondents oppose it. Yet the vote is happening.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorTurnout has been heavy. Elections Alberta received more than six hundred fifty-eight thousand special mail-in applications, and over six hundred fifty-two thousand were approved.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThree hundred ten early stations opened.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPrime Minister Mark Carney warned that the United States is trying to break Canada so it can own the country, PBS reports.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPro-independence supporters rallied in Edmonton on Saturday.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAl Jazeera notes a loss may not end the fight. Gloria Vance, BBN News, London.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThank you, Gloria. I did say they'd won before the vote. Monday we find out what losing looks like.