{"id":930576,"date":"2026-10-12T19:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930576\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T19:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:10:17","slug":"b-c-and-alberta-are-stronger-together-eby-says-in-thanksgiving-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930576\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. and Alberta are ‘stronger together,’ Eby says in Thanksgiving message"},"content":{"rendered":"

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B.C. NDP Leader David Eby has issued a Thanksgiving message encouraging Albertans to vote for unity with Canada in next week’s referendum on their province’s place in Confederation.<\/p>\n

Eby says his party’s candidates are proud of a Canada that includes Alberta, and he hopes the province votes to stay with the rest in the country on Oct. 19, rather than support a second, binding referendum on leaving.<\/p>\n

He says in Sunday’s message on social media that the two provinces have bonds of family, friendship and business and are “stronger together.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A campaign spokeswoman says Eby went to a pumpkin patch in Delta, B.C., with his family on Sunday and they’ll spend time on Monday having fish and chips with the children’s grandparents, in a family Thanksgiving tradition. <\/p>\n

B.C. Conservatives’ interim leader Lorne Doerkson says in a statement that he spent Thanksgiving in Vancouver “a long way” from his own kitchen table in Williams Lake, B.C.,, where there would typically be “too much turkey and a house full of family.”<\/p>\n

A campaign spokesman says Doerkson is instead marking Thanksgiving with campaign volunteers, a day after visiting a food bank.<\/p>\n

The B.C. Greens did not immediately respond when asked how Leader Emily Lowan was marking Thanksgiving, although her schedule said she would be canvassing and attending a meet-and-greet event on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-930576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}