Licia Corbella
Calgary Herald
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Weingarten: An old cuss cusses over cussing ban
WASHINGTON — The world of journalism was most recently rocked — it gets rocked more often than an insomniac baby — when the publisher of the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania issued an edict banning cursing in the newsroom. → Read More
Corbella: This slippery slope leads to Holland and Belgium
Mark this day of infamy down in your calendars. Remember it. Friday, February 6, 2015. Think of it as the tip of the stern deck on the Titanic, just as the bow end starts to sink. The orchestra is still playing. → Read More
Corbella: Prentice blinks but keeps eyes on the prize
Premier Jim Prentice has just come back from the eye doctor. He's had "every conceivable test" and warns that's why his pupils are dilated and why he's blinking a lot. → Read More
Corbella: The naked, sober truth about Nenshi's blottogate
It's fine that Calgary city council decided to ban the consuming of alcohol at City Hall. What isn't OK is the public and defamatory way this personnel matter was handled by Mayor Naheed Nenshi → Read More
40 years ago Black Friday transformed Calgary policing
Officially it was the last day of fall, cool with little snow around. It was the last Friday before Christmas, a pay day. And December 20, 1974 was the last day of Calgary Detective Boyd Davidson’s life. The events that took Davidson’s life began innocently enough that morning. A young man, Philippe Laurier Gagnon, high on plastic glue, was abusive with a store clerk in the Ramsay neighbourhood… → Read More
Editorial: No vacancy sign hanging over Calgary
It is time the city removed the no vacancy sign that increasingly hangs as a threat over Calgary’s future and forces fellow citizens to beg for a place to live. → Read More
Corbella: Police should be held to a higher standard
Mike Wasylyshen has had a noteworthy career as an Edmonton police officer. He has a criminal record for an off-duty assault of two men, one of whom was on crutches, he Tasered a teenager who was pa... → Read More
Brad Wall: Ontario and Quebec would benefit most from Energy East pipeline
Energy East is a $12 billion boost to the Canadian economy, providing jobs, economic growth and increased tax revenue for government. It would save millions of dollars now spent on foreign oil, reducing the costs to refineries and inevitably — their customers. Those jurisdictions placing obstacles in its path — Ontario and Quebec — are the very ones who would benefit the most. → Read More
Editorial: Is the bloom off the Wildrose? Don't bet on it
Just like the reports of the PC party's death was grossly exaggerated a few months ago, Albertans should not write the obituary for the Wildrose Party any time soon. → Read More
Corbella: Calgary cats desperate for new home before Halloween deadline
This Oct. 31 is winding up to be a scary day for Dawn Hanson and about 100 of her feline friends — and not just because Halloween is notoriously dangerous for cats. Rather, Hanson is frightened because she must move out of the donated space where she has run her shelter for the past two years, and she has nowhere to place her beloved cats. → Read More
Corbella: Calgary cats desperate for new home before Halloween deadline
This Oct. 31 is winding up to be a scary day for Dawn Hanson and about 100 of her feline friends — and not just because Halloween is notoriously dangerous for cats. Rather, Hanson is frightened because she must move out of the donated space where she has run her shelter for the past two years, and she has nowhere to place her beloved cats. → Read More
Corbella: Albertans’ anti-Christian bigotry is shocking
The most shocking thing about Alberta Premier Jim Prentice’s new cabinet isn’t that he has chosen two unelected cabinet ministers, though that’s generating a lot of buzz to be sure. What’s really alarming, however, is the open, anti-Christian bigotry attacking one of those unelected ministers — Gordon Dirks — who is Alberta’s new minister of education. → Read More
Corbella: New premier must block sale of AltaLink
Who knew that the Alberta Utilities Commission website could make for such interesting reading? Alberta’s independent utilities regulator is reviewing SNC-Lavalin’s proposed $3.2-billion sale of its transmission line operator AltaLink to Berkshire Hathaway Energy, owned by investment guru and uber billionaire Warren Buffett. → Read More
Corbella: Either Prentice wins, or the PC party is over
If, on Sept. 6, the Alberta Progressive Conservative party chooses the wrong leader yet again — turn out the lights, the party’s over. It’s that simple. → Read More
Corbella: A lack of friends is what did in Redford
Despite prevailing opinions, Alison Redford’s precipitous fall from one of the top political peaks in Canada was not caused by scandals surrounding her extravagant travel expenses, though that played a role to be sure. → Read More
Corbella: A lack of friends is what did in Redford
Despite prevailing opinions, Alison Redford’s precipitous fall from one of the top political peaks in Canada was not caused by scandals surrounding her extravagant travel expenses, though that played a role to be sure. → Read More
Corbella: Why euthanasia pioneers are changing their minds
Recently, an influential and vocal supporter of euthanasia in the Netherlands changed his mind. Theo Boer, who not only supported euthanasia, but was a member of one of five Dutch regional euthanasia review committees for nine years — which approved thousands of deaths — now admits that he “was wrong — terribly wrong.” → Read More
Corbella: Giving hope to flood victims
Flood waters didn't damage Const. Dan Rossi's home, but they did sweep his life into a new trajectory nonetheless. → Read More
Corbella: Don’t sell our transmission lines to U.S. company
Electrical static and lots of it. That’s what Alberta’s politicians should get over news that a U.S. company is trying to buy AltaLink, Alberta’s largest power transmission company, for $3.2 billion. → Read More
Corbella: Caring for suspect’s family shows the spirit of Easter
Years ago while living in Toronto, I interviewed the mother of a victim of a notorious sex murderer. After a long interview that left us both cried out, she said something that she asked me not to publish, as she felt it could further upset her other child. → Read More