{"id":932428,"date":"2026-10-14T07:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932428\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:14:14","slug":"what-does-albertas-referendum-separation-question-even-mean-about-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932428\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Alberta\u2019s referendum separation question even mean? | About That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 7:33closed caption<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">On Oct. 19th, Albertans will head to the polls to answer a question: Should Alberta remain a part of Canada or should the legal process required for separation discussions begin with another future referendum? Andrew Chang breaks down the legal fine print behind Alberta\u2019s separation question, how Indigenous treaty rights shaped the ballot and why a &#8220;yes&#8221; result is far from a done deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9 hours agoNewsDuration 7:33closed caption On Oct. 19th, Albertans will head to the polls to answer a question:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-932428","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\/932428","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=932428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}