Alberta and Canada: Make up or shake up?

In the last days of Alberta’s referendum campaign, Catherine Cullen talks to the Alberta NDP leader and the head of a pro-separatist third-party advertiser about their plans to get out the vote on Monday – and the pitfalls of thinking that the referendum outcome is in the bag. Then, foreign interference has been a top concern in the lead up to the referendum. Canada’s Foreign Influence Commissioner Anton Boegman explains why he’s reached out to dozens of individuals and groups in Alberta.

Then, in the run up to two deeply divisive votes — Alberta’s referendum and the U.S. midterms — Catherine Cullen talks to Daniel Cox, author of a new book about why political tensions are increasing a gender divide and what that means for some young people's dating lives. Then, she asks Andrew Parkin, executive director of the Environics Institute, whether the same divisions are being seen in Canada. Plus, we check in with Melissa and Conrad Muhly, a Canadian-American couple living in Pennsylvania and who hold very different political views, about the tension Trump has created in their household.

This episode features the voices of:

• Naheed Nenshi, Alberta NDP Leader

• Cory Morgan, founder of the pro-separatist third-party advertiser Pathway to Independence

• Anton Boegman, Foreign Influence Commissioner

• Daniel Cox, author of Generation Uncoupled

• Andrew Parkin, Executive Director, Environics Institute for Survey Research

• Melissa and Conrad Muhly