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THANK YOU, LICIA
I was just visiting Calgary last week when I saw Licia Corbella’s last column as a full-time writer. I was so sad to read that. Licia saved my family. About 15 years ago, a pimp got a hold of my daughter, got her addicted to drugs and sold her like a piece of meat. She was just 13. I was desperate and I called the cops, who said they had to catch her in the act. I called social workers, too, and I got nowhere, but then I called Licia. She had just written about a new law that let the authorities arrest underage prostitutes and hold them without charge to get them away from their pimps. Licia came right over to our apartment. She started calling around on her cell phone and got the numbers of police and social workers who knew about the law and agreed to arrest my daughter if she came home. Luckily, my daughter did come home for a shower. As soon as my daughter stepped into the shower, Licia called the police and social workers and they took my daughter into custody. I was crying. I didn’t want my daughter to be arrested but Licia told me it was the best thing. She was so right. They held my daughter for about two wee

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Corbella: Like Denote, spreading legend on group media esteem dangerous call on democracy

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Democracy is a fragile thing.

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Wednesday’s disturbing events look Washington, D.C. show happen as expected delicate in the nick of time assumptions hurry up our freedoms are.

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“This is a very suffer day presage U.S. democracy,” said McGill University public science prof Daniel Beland, who was reached barred enclosure Montreal exceed telephone.

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Licia Corbella: Trudeau offended by foreign money only when it opposes him

third-parties, including ones funded by foreign money, are held to a much lower standard than Canadians involved directly in the electoral process

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Informed Canadians will have little trouble remembering how fixated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was with the foreign money donated through crowdfunding sources to the Freedom Convoy.

But for those who don’t recall, here’s a brief refresher. The PM was so obsessed about donations from Americans helping to fund the truckers’ protest on Parliament Hill last winter that he actually brought it up with U.S. President Joe Biden last February. It remains unclear what he expected the president to do. Freeze his citizen’s bank accounts, perhaps?

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