吉姆·费多尔请了10月19日的假，以确保他能够参加阿尔伯塔省的公投。
Jim Fedor booked Oct. 19 off work to make sure he can vote in Alberta’s referendum.
“我很期待。以前从未参加过这样的公投，所以这会是一次新体验，”费多尔说。他上周曾在卡尔加里东南部塞顿图书馆分馆的CBC新闻快闪点停留。
“I'm looking forward to it. Never voted in a referendum like this before, so it'll be something new,” said Fedor, who stopped at the CBC News pop-up at the Seton library branch in southeast Calgary last week.
“我打算在分离问题上投赞成票（选项1），即阿尔伯塔省留在加拿大，而其他九个问题我计划都投反对票，”他说。“我会早点到场，愿意等待进入投票站投票。”
“I'm gonna vote Option 1 on the separation question, for Alberta to stay in Canada, and the other nine questions I plan to vote no for each one,” he said. “I'll get there early, and I'm willing to wait to get in and vote.”
“我认为让每个人都能表达自己的声音很重要。世界上很多地方根本不允许对任何事情进行投票。所以我觉得自己很幸运，能够投票并让我的一票发挥作用。”关注我们对阿尔伯塔省公投的全程报道。CBC新闻在图书馆设立了报道点，以了解随着公投活动进入最后一周，阿尔伯塔人正在想些什么。我们准备了便利贴和记号笔，邀请读者分享他们的想法：在准备投票时，你在思考什么？
“I think it's important for everyone to have their voices heard. A lot of places in the world don't allow voting on much of anything. So I feel quite lucky to be able to vote and make my vote count.”Follow all of our Alberta referendum coverage CBC News set up at the library to get a sense of how Albertans are feeling as the referendum campaigns head into their final week. We set out Post-It notes and markers, and invited patrons to share their thoughts on the question: What are you thinking about as you get ready to vote?
家长们带着孩子来了；高中生们在放学后来逛逛；老人们也顺路来取预约的书籍。一片低低的嗡嗡声充满了这座繁忙的建筑。
Parents came by with their kids; high school students stopped in after their classes ended; seniors swung by to pick up books on hold. A low hum filled the busy building.
一些阿尔伯塔人对投票感到沮丧。少数人像费多尔一样对投票感到兴奋。其他人刚刚开始关注这一过程，尚未决定如何投票；还有人甚至对必须参与投票这件事本身感到沮丧。
Some Albertans frustrated at the vote A few people were excited to vote, like Fedor. Others were just starting to follow the process and had not yet decided how they would cast their ballots; several expressed frustration at even having the vote.
“人们感到不知所措”：社区团体 rally 起来，在阿尔伯塔省公投前向选民提供信息。独家报道：阿尔伯塔人在移民问题上意见分歧，而在九个非分离问题上仍有一半人持未决定态度：民调显示。这就是克里斯汀·尼尔森的感受。
'People are overwhelmed': Community groups rally to inform voters ahead of Alberta referendum Exclusive Albertans divided on immigration, while half still undecided on 9 non-separation questions: poll That’s how Christine Nelson was feeling. “I'm really disappointed. The majority of people do not want to separate, and we have to spend taxpayers’ money to vote on something that's not going to go through unless there's some kind of, you know, crookedness going on. It's ridiculous,” said Nelson.
“我真的很失望。大多数人并不想要分离，而我们却要纳税人的钱来投票表决一件根本不会通过的事情——除非其中有某种你知我知的黑幕。这太荒谬了，”尼尔森说。查梅恩·库蒂尼奥带着她的小女儿来访，表达了类似的情感。
Charmaine Coutinho, who stopped by with her young daughter, had a similar sentiment.
“我对政府通过行动合法化这些极端观点而导致的种族主义和他者化的增加感到愤怒，”她说。“我说不接受一切，我们也一样，我非常支持留在加拿大。”迈克尔·查德利说他也会投同样的票，但正努力保持对差异的开放。
“I am feeling anger about the increase in racism and otherness caused by legitimizing these extreme perspectives through government actions,” she said. “I am saying no to everything, and we are, and I am, very much in favour of staying in Canada.”Michael Chudleigh said he is voting the same, but trying to stay open to difference.
“我尽量不对整件事感到愤怒，并试图理解那些与我意见不同的人也有他们的理由，即使我看不见。”意见分歧的朋友们 一对老年朋友在去喝咖啡的路上停下来聊天，笑声不断。她们说自己是好朋友，经常见面。其中一人热衷于留在加拿大，而另一人则计划投票支持探索离开。
“I'm trying not to be angry about the whole thing and understand that those who disagree with me have their reasons, even if I can't see them.”Friends at odds over separation One pair of seniors were laughing and chatting as they stopped by on their way for coffee. The two women said they are good friends, who meet regularly. One is passionate about staying in Canada, while the other is casting her vote to explore leaving.
她们不谈论公投。“我们可能就不再是朋友了！”支持统一的朋友说。她不愿接受采访，但此前曾表示她的父亲为加拿大而战，她永远不愿看到加拿大被分裂。
They don’t talk about the referendum. “We might not be friends after!” said the pro-unity friend. She didn’t want to be interviewed, but earlier said her father fought for Canada and she’d never want to see it splintered.
另一位朋友后来回来，在白板上写下了她的想法：“我认为10月19日的[公投]更像是一份谅解备忘录，能让人们谈论并关注我们的权利和公平/民主。但很多人被引导害怕这是最终决定或公投，要么离开他们的国家，要么被特朗普接管！”她写道，分离主义者担心渥太华如何通过对个人施加控制来主导局面，比如在卡车司机 convoy 期间冻结银行账户。
The other friend came back later to write her thoughts on the whiteboard: “I think the Oct. 19 [referendum] is more like a memorandum of understanding thing and gets people talking and looking into our rights and fairness/democracy. But many people have been led to be afraid it’s a final say or referendum to leave their country or be taken over by Trump!”She wrote that separatists fear the way Ottawa has been asserting control over individuals, such as freezing bank accounts during the trucker convoy.
首先是封锁。然后是分离主义。旧 tensions 在考茨重新燃起 分析 反新冠活动如何为阿尔伯塔的分离主义运动注入活力 新移民表达对加拿大的爱 随着下午的推移，我们的留言板上充满了各种信息，其中充满了对加拿大的热爱。“我爱加拿大；我会投票选择留在这里，”一人写道。“我爱加拿大，这是我的家园，”另一人写道。
First came the blockade. Then came separatism. Old tensions revived in Coutts Analysis How anti-COVID activism injected life into Alberta's separatist movement Newcomers express love for Canada As the afternoon wore on, our board filled with messages, with a lot of love for Canada. “I love Canada; I’ll vote to stay here,” wrote one person. “I love Canada, this is my home,” wrote another.
几位拥有永久居留权但未获加拿大公民身份的人前来参观。其中一位是大卫·阿尔达纳，他从哥伦比亚移居加拿大。
Several people with permanent residency but not Canadian citizenship stopped by. One was David Aldana, who moved to Canada from Colombia.
“如果我能投票，我会选择留在加拿大，因为我认为团结更好，”他说。“我认为团结对国家本身更有利。我爱上了加拿大。我爱上了我们在这里拥有的自由。” 对公投可能适得其反的担忧 在阿尔伯塔省，今年春天根据加拿大广播公司新闻委托的珍特·布朗民意研究机构的一项民意调查显示，支持独立的比例约为27%。
“If I could vote, I would stay with Canada, and because I feel that unity is better,” he said. “I think unity is better for the country itself. I'm in love with Canada. I'm in love with the freedom that we have here.”Concerns the vote could backfire In Alberta, support for independence had been polling at about 27 per cent this spring according to a poll from Janet Brown Opinion Research commissioned by CBC News.
该比例在珍特·布朗九月份进行的类似民意调查中降至23%，该调查还发现，丹妮尔·史密斯省长领导的联合保守党失去了一些支持，这可能是由于人们对公投的不满所致。
That softened to 23 per cent in a similar poll by Janet Brown in September, which also found Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party lost some support, likely due to frustration over the vote.
图书馆的一位男子称其为噩梦。他写道：“谈谈适得其反。我们现在面临的不是来自渥太华的更多考量，而是可能的新民主党复苏（这是你能想象到的最坏结果）。” 穆阿兹·阿舍尔是附近乔安·卡迪纳尔-舒伯特高中的一名十年级学生，放学后来此参观。他说在学校他们尝试从双方角度审视分离的论点。
One man at the library called it a nightmare. He wrote: “Talk about backfiring. Rather than more consideration from Ottawa we are now facing a potential NDP resurgence (the worst outcome you could imagine).”Muaaz Asher is a Grade 10 student who stopped by after class at the nearby Joane Cardinal-Schubert High School. He said at school they tried to look at the separation arguments from both sides.
“令人惊讶的是，很多同学想留下来。我真的觉得这很有趣，因为就我一个朋友非常偏右，他总是同意右翼人士的说法，但这一次……他想留在加拿大，”阿舍尔说。
“Surprisingly, a lot of my class wanted to stay. And I really found that fascinating ‘cause there's just one of my friends who is heavily right. He always agrees with whatever right-wingers say but this time … he wants to stay in Canada,” Asher said.
“这实际上表明，作为一个国家——虽然听起来有点俗套，但这里充满了爱与团结。我觉得这真的很特别，我认为我们绝不能放弃这一点。”“双方都有强烈的声音”在周四的图书馆里，支持团结的声音最为响亮且最常见。但这只是一个地点，一个下午的情况。
“It kind of just shows that as a country — it sounds a bit corny, but there's a lot of love and unity. I think that's really special, and I think we just can't give that up.”'Strong opinions on both sides' The voices for unity were loudest and most common at the library Thursday. But it’s one location, on one afternoon.
民意调查显示，UCP选民中略有多数倾向于分离，而该党正面临即将到来的“艰难日子”。争取独立的斗争不会在公投后结束：阿尔伯塔繁荣项目领袖Destiny Fox到访并指出，你无法仅凭最愿意发声的人来判断整体民意。
Poll suggests slight majority of UCP voters favours separation as party stares down ‘tough days’ ahead Fight for independence won't end after referendum: Alberta Prosperity Project leader Destiny Fox stopped by and suggested you can’t judge how people in general are feeling by those most willing to speak up.
“我不认为很多人会像那些想留在加拿大的人那样，坦诚地表达他们想离开加拿大的意愿，”Fox说。“所以你听不到那么多声音……你也不会看到人们在私人财产上挂出草坪标语，因为他们不想和邻居产生争执。但我认为，双方都有很多人持有强烈的观点。”
“I don't think that a lot of people are being very open about their opinion to leave Canada as honestly as people who want to stay in Canada,” Fox said. “So you're just not hearing as much … You're not going to see the lawn signs on people's personal property because they don't want to get into it with their neighbours. But I think that there are a lot of strong opinions on both sides.
“我很高兴我们正在进行这次公投，因为我觉得这给了每个人一个表达自己感受的机会。我不一定想脱离加拿大，但我希望省长能有权力回到渥太华，告诉他们阿尔伯塔人的真实想法。”将阿尔伯塔公投民意调查数据转化为艺术 10月7日 时长
“I'm glad that we're having this referendum because I feel like it's giving everybody an opportunity to voice their feelings. And I don't necessarily feel that I want to separate from Canada, but I do want the premier to have the power to go back to Ottawa and say this is how Albertans are feeling.”Turning Alberta referendum polling data into art October 7 Duration
