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  "id": 5656000,
  "title": "Federal Tories launch 'Conservatives for Canada' campaign ahead of Alberta referendum",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/federal-tories-launch-conservatives-for-canada-campaign-ahead-of-5656000",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-04T22:10:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
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    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/conservatives-for-canada-campaign-alberta-referendum-9.7333344"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The federal Conservatives have launched a campaign called Conservatives for Canada to encourage their supporters to vote to stay in Canada in the upcoming Alberta referendum. The referendum, set to take place on October 19, will ask Albertans whether they want to remain a province or begin the legal process to hold a binding referendum on leaving Canada.\n\nAccording to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, the party's goal is to promote unity and argue that separatists have a problem with the Liberal government, not with Canada as a whole. In a speech delivered in Calgary this summer, Poilievre stated, \"We don’t need a different country in Alberta, we need different government policies in Ottawa.\"\n\nParkland MP Dane Lloyd has been named the caucus lead on the remain campaign. He said that the party is engaging with conservative Albertans and acknowledging that the status quo needs to change, but that their problem is not with Canada. Lloyd stated that Albertans feel like \"their voice isn’t being heard, that their values are not being respected\" by the federal government, according to Global News.",
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      {
        "outlet": "CityNews",
        "title": "Federal Tories launch ‘Conservatives for Canada’ campaign ahead of Alberta referendum",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/federal-tories-launch-conservatives-for-canada-campaign-ahead-of-5679870",
        "published": "2026-09-04T20:13:26.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Federal Tories launch ‘Conservatives for Canada’ campaign ahead of Alberta referendum",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/federal-tories-launch-conservatives-for-canada-campaign-ahead-of",
        "published": "2026-09-04T20:13:26.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Global News",
        "title": "Federal Tories launch ‘Conservatives for Canada’ campaign ahead of Alberta referendum",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/federal-tories-launch-conservatives-for-canada-campaign-ahead-of-5654322",
        "published": "2026-09-04T22:26:02.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}