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Early returns from Monday's record-turnout referendum show a decisive remain majority on the separation question — wider than months of polling predicted. Danielle Smith welcomed the verdict, Mark Carney said "above all, Albertans chose Canada," and the count continues.
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More than a hundred voting locations opened late on referendum day, forcing extended hours and delaying the unofficial results. The last polls close at 10 p.m. MT — midnight in Ontario and Quebec — and only then can the hand count begin.
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More than 43 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot before election day even arrived. With polls open until 8 p.m. local, Alberta could see turnout the province hasn't seen in a generation — and the separation question will be counted first.
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Three days before Monday's referendum, the prime minister and the premier pitched unity together while the Conservative leader made his own case in Calgary. New Abacus polling suggests most Albertans expect the debate to outlast the vote.
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The prime minister made his loudest unity pitch yet four days before the Alberta referendum, warning that a second separation vote would bring years of division and uncertainty.
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More than 650,000 mail ballots are already in the pipeline; Carney is expected in Alberta in the coming days with a pro-Canada message.
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In a Thanksgiving video message filmed in Edmonton, the prime minister warns a vote to start the separation process would begin "a long and uncertain process" — as advance polls open Tuesday.