Apr 7 2021 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — When Naheed Nenshi became Calgary’s 36th mayor on Oct. 18, 2010, he very quickly became an international phenomenon. Even though his ethnicity and religion never became an issue in Calgary during the campaign to replace outgoing mayor Dave Bronconnier, Nenshi catapulted into fame as a political star as the first Muslim mayor of a major […]
Jan 28 2021 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — The CEO of a Calgary-based biotechnology firm says if he had been able to procure $35 million from the federal government instead of just $4.7 million, it would be in Stage 3 clinical trials right now with a Canadian vaccine similar to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. Brad Sorenson, the founder and CEO of […]
Jan 5 2021 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — On Christmas Eve, Lindsey Witzel’s grandfather, Warren Allford, passed away from COVID-19. For Witzel, not being able to rush to Winnipeg from her Calgary home to hold her beloved 88-year-old Papa’s hand as he lay dying was, as she said during an interview, the “hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”
Dec 8 2020 — Licia Corbella — Postmedia — A recent OECD report shows that household incomes in Canada have actually increased during COVID-19. That’s good news, right? Not so fast. While it’s much better than household incomes crashing, Canada’s growth in household income of 11 per cent — more than any other OECD country by a significant amount — indicates that the federal […]
Nov 22 2020 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — We all remember the disturbing stories coming out of Europe as little as two years ago called the heat or eat phenomenon. The push towards renewable energy contributed to large spikes in electricity costs that seniors and other people on low incomes in the U.K., in particular, were forced to choose between heating their homes […]
Aug 26 2020 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — A new poll suggests that if an election were held today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — mired as he is in yet another scandal that reflects poorly on his ethical standards — would possibly win a majority government. That may be why it looks as though Trudeau is trying to force an election following his […]
Aug 22 2020 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — When Dan Kelly was in Grade 9 back in 1983, the now-president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business worked three hours every Friday night washing dishes at a Winnipeg pizza restaurant. Changes announced Thursday by Canada’s new Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Minister of Employment Carla Qualtrough would make young workers — similar to […]
Aug 20 2020 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — No wonder Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke another election promise and prorogued Parliament. He wanted to avoid “the sh*t show” he knew was headed for the proverbial fan with the release of almost 5,000 pages of documents related to the WE Charity controversy. Just hours before the documents were released by government lawyers, Trudeau swore […]
Aug 19 2020 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — It’s the WE scandal, stupid. With my apologies to James Carville — Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist in 1992 — if it wasn’t for the WE Charity controversy, Bill Morneau would still be Canada’s finance minister. Too bad he didn’t just say that in his absurd resignation announcement.
Jul 28 2020 — Licia Corbella — National Post — In December 2012 I travelled to Lebanon with World Vision’s then Canadian President, Dave Toycen. World Vision wanted to show Canadians the life-saving aid the international charity was providing to refugees fleeing from civil war in Syria. Toycen, along with another Canadian staff member and me, stayed at a home in a safe and secure […]
Jul 10 2020 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — Almost half of Alberta’s doctors have either made plans to or are considering looking for work outside of the province. If even a fraction of those physicians carry through, it will be a costly brain drain that will be felt by Albertans for generations to come.
Apr 27 2020 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — It became even more abundantly evident that something must be done to help Canada’s energy industry after oil hit negative prices on Monday. As the requests for help mount, so do the objections from those who say they don’t want taxpayer dollars going towards helping the oil patch. They shouldn’t worry so much. The $15 […]
Apr 17 2020 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — On March 12, the same day it was announced that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau had contracted COVID-19, a troubling report about foreign threats to Canada was released. Not surprisingly, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians 2019 annual report got sucked into the vortex of the coronavirus tornado and was […]
Jul 17 2019 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — A while back I spent a day hanging out in the chuckwagon barns at the Calgary Stampede. It was an eye-opening experience. As the driver and crew of each team started harnessing each of their four horses that would pull their chuckwagon and prepared to saddle up their two outrider horses, a racket ensued — […]
Jul 4 2019 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — Why did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau order his revenue minister to stop the Canada Revenue Agency from auditing politically active charities? Was it to protect his best friend and former principal secretary, Gerald Butts? Those are just two of the many questions asked by Vivian Krause during a sold out Calgary Chamber of Commerce luncheon […]