Alberta Referendum: 70% want to remain in Canada Alberta Referendum Poll: Undecided Share Rises to 10% - Leger

Open this photo in gallery:A man walks past the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank headquarters in Beijing. JADE GAO/AFP/Getty ImagesThe federal government is still mulling whether to reactivate its membership in the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank more than three years after Ottawa suspended participation in a high-profile diplomatic rupture with Beijing. Canada’s frozen membership in the bank, one of the more-prominent breaks with China during a deep freeze between the two countries, remains unresolved despite Prime Minister Mark Carney’s efforts to rekindle ties with Beijing. In June, 2023, then-deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland, in her separate capacity as finance minister, announced a halt to Canadian engagement with the bank, which funds billions of dollars of infrastructure development in Asia. It also provides financing in other parts of the world. Canada holds first defence co-ordination talks with China in more than eight yearsFinance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s office said a review is still continuing nearly 3½ years later and that Canada’s activity at the bank remains suspended.

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The 20th annual Cape to Cabot road race is taking place tomorrow. The grueling 20 km trek sees participants running from one historic landmark to another: From Cape Spear to Cabot Tower on top of Signal Hill. The race starts at 8 a.m., and because of that there are a few related road closures in St. John’s. Between 7:45 and 11a.m. there will be numerous road closures along the route. A full list can be found online at VOCM dot com. Expect traffic impacts from 7:45 a.m. to 11 a.m. on routes including Blackhead Road, Southside Road, Water Street, Harbour Drive, Duckworth Street, Temperance Street and Signal Hill Road.

On Monday, Albertans vote on whether to stay in Canada or hold another binding referendum on quitting Canada. If the vote goes as polls suggest, a majority of Albertans will mark an X to stay in Confederation, and Premier Danielle Smith has said if that’s so, she expects everyone to accept it and move on. Leaders of the independence movement contest that. And political watchers are divided about whether separation — previously a fringe sentiment — will now be a prominent, permanent feature of Alberta’s political landscape, as in Quebec. Julian Castro-Rea, a political-science professor at the University of Alberta who studies the separation debates in Quebec and Alberta, believes as long as Alberta feels alienated from the Canadian capital — feeling that Ottawa benefits from Alberta’s resource economy without giving back — the movement will have fuel. “Even if the referendum is lost, the westernization will still be around, because it’s kind of a way which, traditionally, Albertans have related to the rest of Canada,” says Castro-Rea, who believes western alienation may remain indefinitely. Story continues below advertisement