May 26 2018 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — The only thing wrong with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s commencement speech to the graduates of New York University recently is that his walk doesn’t match his talk. In other words, his 22-minute address on May 16 is filled with glaring hypocrisy. “Humanity has to fight our tribal mindset,” he told the thousands who gathered in […]
May 19 2018 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — Use the term The Calgary School in most academic, or even just policy-wonk circles, in Canada and they know what you’re talking about, even though it’s not really a formal entity. The Calgary School is, at its core, an ad-hoc band of four amigos — all University of Calgary political science professors — who shook […]
May 17 2018 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — It’s either an untruth or ignorance. Either way, it doesn’t reflect well on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. For two years now, Trudeau keeps saying that “not a single kilometre of pipeline was built” during the almost 10 years that Stephen Harper’s Conservative government was in power. On Tuesday, even in Alberta, Trudeau uttered that falsehood […]
May 11 2018 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — NDP MP Christine Moore has painted herself into an ideological corner with the rules she expects men to follow when it comes to sexuality. As a result, she has destroyed several political careers — and, at last, hopefully she has inadvertently impaled her own. On the one hand, Moore expects men to pick up on […]
May 6 2018 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — David Suzuki has said a lot of offensive, wacky, inaccurate and damaging things over the years while speaking on the record and for publication. These are not slips of the tongue, as his devoted followers sometimes try to claim. Suzuki, the decades-long star behind The Nature of Things, is extremely media savvy. During debate in […]
Apr 27 2018 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canada Summer Jobs debacle is growing even more farcical but not any more funny. The B.C. advocacy group Dogwood got federal funding to hire an organizing assistant to help the not-for-profit “stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline and tanker project.” The feds are creating a $15-an-hour job designed to stop thousands of […]
Mar 28 2018 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — ADJUST COMMENT PRINT Irony and hypocrisy often run hand in hand. On Parliament Hill, they are bedfellows. Consider what has happened to NDP member of Parliament David Christopherson. The Hamilton Centre MP was the lone New Democrat to vote in favour of a perfectly sensible, if not righteous, Conservative party motion that better clarified the […]
Mar 24 2018 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — Remember Elbowgate? No, didn’t think so. While not profound as far as national events are concerned, Elbowgate does serve as an enlightening bit of drama that exposes the less-than-sunny ways of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. First, a little background. On May 18, 2016, Trudeau grabbed the arm of Conservative party whip Gord Brown as he […]
Mar 10 2018 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — Sigmund Freud once famously asked: “What do women want?” I can’t speak for everyone, but I don’t want to be told what I want by millionaire men in suits. According to calculations made by a few enterprising reporters, gender was mentioned 358 times in the 367-page federal budget document that was released on Feb. 27. […]
Jan 20 2018 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — Pierre Elliott Trudeau — one of the main architects of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — would be rolling over in his grave if he knew how cavalier his eldest son is with its contents. So to refresh Trudeau Junior’s memory, here are some key components of the charter, which is pinned to […]
Jan 17 2018 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will have his chance to prove that he treats Canadian churches and social agencies with the same respect he showed convicted terrorist Omar Khadr when those faith groups’ applications for Canada Summer Jobs grants are processed in the next few weeks. The federal government has effectively prevented faith-based social agencies and […]
Jan 11 2018 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — In the name of “inclusion” and “tolerance,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government are excluding and being intolerant to faith-based social agencies and churches from even applying for the Canada Summer Jobs program that provides subsidies to hire summer students. In so doing, Trudeau will hypocritically be harming the very people he claims […]
Dec 27 2017 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — Just because he’s the first, doesn’t mean he’s the worst. Yes, Justin Trudeau has become the first sitting prime minister in Canadian history to officially be cited for violating parliamentary ethics rules. Compared to some of the ethical breaches made by previous prime ministers, however, Trudeau’s violations are mild by comparison. On Dec. 20, Mary […]
Dec 19 2017 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — A political junkie acquaintance of mine who nominally knows Jason Kenney described the 49-year-old United Conservative Party leader as “the Great White Shark of Canadian politics.” A shark, I wondered. “Yeah, he doesn’t sleep, he always moves forward, he’s efficient and he shreds his prey.” It’s a pretty good analogy. On Monday morning, however, Kenney […]
Dec 16 2017 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — I’m no cannabis crusader, user, or fan of the plant, but I do favour its legalization. Having said that, many things are bothering me in the lead-up to the legalization of marijuana in Canada. My No. 1 pet peeve about legalization of pot is that it’s taking place on Canada Day — July 1, 2018 […]