Registered Psychologist, former MLA Peace River & Deputy Speaker. Lifelong Albertan, working to make life better for family and community.

High Level, Alberta
Joined March 2015
Debbie Jabbour retweeted
To say something so disrespectful about Senator Simons makes me think you’ve never actually met her @McAllisterBruce. This is a person who would occasionally be critical of me, but there is never any doubt that she wants what is best for Edmontonians, Albertans, and Canadians.
In 2013, columnist Paula Simons asked why Canada bothers with “an unelected upper house, full of entitled toffs who can’t be turfed.” In 2026, Senator Paula Simons - unelected, Trudeau-appointed, paid nearly $200k a year by taxpayers until 2039 - calls it “truly vile” when Albertans put that same question on a ballot. I guess appointment is a hell of a conversion experience. I think Charles Adler had the same conversion. What’s actually vile is that she sits in that high chamber pretending to speak for Alberta. It is a joke to think Paula Simons represents the culture and can-do attitude of this province. The great majority of Albertans would never - that’s right, never - vote for her or her grifting pal Kris Wells to represent them anywhere. #ableg #cdnpoli
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
Former Alberta premier Rachel Notley blasts Danielle Smith for ruling out using energy as leverage against the U.S., saying Smith is “not playing with the team” and that Donald Trump “has an ally in Danielle Smith.”
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
A very good analysis of what lies behind Danielle Smith’s comments today conflating Justin Trudeau with Donald Trump. I have a lot of respect for her skills as a communicator. I have much less for the incredible lack of principle in how she uses them. #ableg
Replying to @sarobertson_
Smith is using a recognizable technique. Propaganda analysts identified it in the 1930s and called it “transfer”: take the emotional charge already attached to one thing and carry it over to another by associating the two. Trump is a foreign president attacking Canada’s economy, threatening key Canadian industries and talking openly about annexation. Trudeau was Canada’s elected prime minister, and he left office eighteen months ago. Smith is now asking Ontarians and Quebecers, in the middle of an active attack on their livelihoods, to attenuate their anger about Trump by dredging up legacy resentment about a former PM. Her framing is profoundly cynical. Only Smith could try and disguise a deliberate and manipulative redirection of anger as an appeal for empathy. Her sequence: exploit resentment, blur unlike things together, be unnecessarily divisive at the exact moment solidarity is worth most. The central move is to manufacture an internal enemy while an external one threatens us. The effect is to weaken one of Canada’s strongest assets in confronting Trump: a united national front. Smith talks about others' anger while she is the one who is now stoking it on purpose (to divide Canadians rather than directed at the outrageous American tariffs). After the sad spectacle of Smith's self-serving communication and weak leadership this week, the more justified anger in Alberta may be directed at a premier whose instinct, when Canada is attacked by a foreign power, is to gratuitously revive old regional resentments and signal more sympathy for the aggressor than solidarity with her own country.
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BREAKING: Prime Minister Mark Carney trolls Trump right in his ego as Canada hits back hard against his MAGA trade aggression. There's a new leader of the free world now... "Prime Minister Carney, the Davie shipyard is the linchpin of the ice pact between Canada, Finland, and the United States. It will be the savoir-faire of this shipyard that will help the U.S. recapitalize its own Coast Guard with icebreakers. Does the most recent round of tariffs put that into question, especially considering that the tariffs around steel and aluminum necessary to make these icebreakers?" Justin Ling of the Toronto Star asked during a presser. The icebreakers in question are large, powerful vessels that are used to do exactly what their name implies. They are absolutely crucial for keeping shipping routes open in Arctic regions and the United States relies on Canada to do just that. Of course, Trump doesn't know these basic facts. He foolishly started this new trade war with Canada, our closest ally, because it allows him to look tough to his xenophobic base. It's an incredibly stupid move on the White House's part, and will only result in higher prices for an American public already struggling with the economic fallout from the Iran War. The trade talks between the U.S. and Canada broke down on Friday. Trump announced 50% tariffs and Carney responded in kind. Canada is not intimidated and they are not backing down. "Well, first off, thank God that Davie — and it's not thank God, it's through good work of Minister Lightbound, Minister Drainville, and the leadership here at Davie, that the steel for these ships is Canadian," Carney responded to the reporter. "They'll come from Algoma. It'll come from Brennan. It'll come from Seagrass." "So, that's a core advantage. And it's a reminder to us of the strategic advantage of producing what we need. Nothing about what's happened over the last week affects this program," Carney said, with the confidence of a man who holds all the chips. "In fact, what it does is reinforce it." "And I thank you for your question, because it's a reminder of one of the many, many, many things that the United States needs from Canada," Carney added. "This expertise, you know, the United States has a handful, and I'm being generous, of icebreakers. We have twenty. Yeah, one. Yeah, I was being generous. Okay, I didn't want, yeah. I rounded up. They have a habit of doing that there," he said, taking an obvious jab at Trump's penchant for lying and exaggerating. "And we have twenty," said Carney. "We're building the best in class, across all classes, with the expertise here." This is exactly the kind of trolling that gets under Trump's skin. He hates being bested in anything and the fact that Canada has a much larger icebreaker fleet will make him feel weak and impotent. During the same press conference, Carney also announced that Canada will soon begin "intense discussions with the European Union to "build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership." Translation: our northern neighbor no longer trusts us, so they're going to bring their businesses elsewhere. Once again, we see the American people losing because our President is too stupid to game out the very obvious consequences of his own impulsive decisions. Please ❤️ and share if you stand with Canada!
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
Connors Rd NW and 98 Ave is currently a mess after the flash flooding that hit Edmonton 😳 Several vehicles are partially underwater, the road is impassable, and the Low Level Bridge has now been closed.
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
WOW! Today Smith tried to perpetuate her spin on what duty to consult means and how it applies... And Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew was having NONE of it! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
Great article on Alberta and separation from Senator Paula Simons @Paulatics “Blood and soil ethno-nationalism doesn’t work here, because Canada has been multicultural since our very beginning, long before the first traders and colonizers and settlers arrived, home not to one single Indigenous culture but to hundreds of distinct languages and traditions. Our colonial roots were both French and English—not to mention Scottish and Irish and Welsh, so we’ve been multilingual since the first Europeans landed. No other country has been as successful at creating a truly multicultural nation of tolerance and inclusion. And it’s not some elite “liberal” notion that Laurentian Canada has imposed on Alberta. Far from it. Multiculturalism as national public policy was first championed in 1971 by Harry Strom, the Social Credit premier who preceded Lougheed. Back then, multiculturalism was pushed hardest by Alberta’s Ukrainian community, who chafed under the limitations of the old “two founding nations” bicultural paradigm. You might well call official multiculturalism Alberta’s greatest gift to Canada, since it has enabled us to become a global powerhouse ideally equipped to compete in a global economy.” albertaviews.ca/the-case-for…
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
Just when you thought the book bans couldn’t get any worse… Libraries are required to track who accesses “restricted materials”, store that information and then hand it over to government “library inspectors”? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
#publiclibrary #censorship #UCPCorruption Received this email from my public Library today. This is stunning. There will be “Library Inspectors” now. They will have access to what type of material I like to read ?
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The Alberta Election Commissioner has a lot of explaining to do, it would seem.
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
Every Albertan should be shocked by the news of one of the largest data breaches in Canadian history, involving their personal information allegedly being used by separatists and their leaders. This is invasive. It is dangerous. And it puts Albertans at risk. Any political party involved should be immediately deregistered and have its access to sensitive personal voter data revoked. We trust the RCMP and Elections Alberta will investigate and prosecute this to the fullest extent of the law, and ensure there are real consequences for anyone involved in putting Albertans at risk.
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Alberta has been built by people who can smell bullshit. albertareferendumb2026.ca/ “From farmers and ranchers to energy workers, teachers and nurses, Albertans know the difference between facts and a sales pitch.” Brilliant work exposing the UCP’s referendum website for what it is — a taxpayer-funded sales pitch dressed up as information. Alberta has been built by people who can smell bullshit. From farmers and ranchers to energy workers, teachers and nurses, we know the difference between real facts and government spin. The facts still matter, and yes, we can smell the BS a mile away. Looking at you, UCP.
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
Alberta's 17th Premier @RachelNotley published an excellent op-ed in the Globe and Mail about how the UCP is putting democracy at risk with their attempt to rig the election: "I can say, with utter certainty, that at no time did I even casually consider abusing my power as Premier or our legislative majority. It has to stop here. "If we allow politicians to rig elections, then we will be giving them carte blanche to do anything they want. No politician should ever hold that power." Well worth the read: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
The Separatist drive for a utopia that exists in their imagination. Even though I am a white heterosexual male, I am undoubtedly on the deportation list. thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/04/…
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
If you watch 2 minutes of video today… Make it this. A masterclass on oratory and personal responsibility is on full display. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Maclean's approached me about writing a personal essay as an Albertan about secession and my opposition to it. It was published today 👇 macleans.ca/politics/i-dont-…
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
“She is the most dangerous politician in Canada, launching not only an agenda of fear and greed, but one that seeks to undermine the country, its federal structure and its spirit of tolerance and compassion.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/2…
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
For those who were asking, here is the video of the talk that I delivered in Red Deer (in a snowstorm) last week to the Council of Canadians about Alberta Separatism. youtube.com/watch?v=v0blZkRA…
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Debbie Jabbour retweeted
Duane Bratt is one of Canada's great teachers. He's based in Calgary. It's impossible to watch or listen to Duane and not learn important things. Thanks for your commitment to Canada, Professor @DuaneBratt and teaching us why the commitment makes a lot of Canadian Common Sense.
For those who were asking, here is the video of the talk that I delivered in Red Deer (in a snowstorm) last week to the Council of Canadians about Alberta Separatism. youtube.com/watch?v=v0blZkRA…
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