Mark Carney ties Thanksgiving gratitude to Canadian unity
CTV News presents the prime minister's holiday appeal a week ahead of the Alberta referendum.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 219,688 views a day, 38 times a normal first day on this channel (5,805).
‘Give a thanks for Canada’: PM calls for unity in Thanksgiving message
The Alberta referendum gives Mark Carney's Thanksgiving message a political backdrop. In CTV News' short clip, the prime minister appeals for unity, with the broadcaster placing his remarks a week before the vote.
The upload, titled "'Give a thanks for Canada': PM calls for unity in Thanksgiving message," reached about 95,000 views in its first seven hours. That is already far beyond the audience a CTV Short usually draws across its entire first day.
For readers outside Canada, Thanksgiving falls in October rather than November. Here, the holiday greeting also carries a national question: Carney is asking Canadians to give thanks for their country while calling for them to stay united.
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Where next?
- Channel
- CTV News
- Subscribers
- 2,420,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 23,446,965
- Video published
- October 12, 2026
- Video views so far
- 94,971 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 219,688
The numbers
The Thanksgiving clip passed CTV's usual full-day audience for Shorts within its opening hours. Its first day is still underway.
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