Anthony Furey

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FUREY: The government is getting more involved in Canadians’ lives - is this what we want?

The thing that really did it for me was the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive, where the government chips in up to 10% of a down payment to anyone buying their first property. It’s not just for low-income families, not at all. When it launched it was open to those making six figure incomes, maxing out at $120,000.

October 26, 2019 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the news media for the first time since winning a minority government in the federal election, at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, Oct. 23, 2019. (REUTERS/Stephane Mahe)

FUREY: Anti-Scheer coalition isn't against rules – here's why it's still wrong

Last Thanksgiving weekend, a few of us sat down to play a couple rounds of Monopoly.

October 19, 2019 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduces Vancouver Kingsway candidate Tamara Taggart at a rally in Vancouver, September 11, 2019. (REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier)

FUREY: The land is strong for now – but Canada can’t withstand four more years of Justin Trudeau

There’s never going to be one single “a ha” moment in Canada when it collectively dawns on us that our country is headed in the wrong direction.

October 12, 2019 Columnists

Liberal leader and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks on as he boards the plane at the airport in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada October 12, 2019.

FUREY: It’s time to unleash Doug Ford on Trudeau

Somewhere in the west end of Toronto, a designated hitter is sitting around and pacing in frustration as the game is played without him, being told he’s got to wait on the benches and sit this one out.

October 4, 2019 Columnists

Andrew Scheer is congratulated by Ontario Premier Doug Ford at the Ontario PC Convention 2018 at the Toronto Congress Centre on Saturday, November 17, 2018. (Jack Boland/Toronto Sun)

FUREY: Facebook 'fact check' censors Sun column critiquing Liberals

Every day, social media manager Cathy Leal puts together graphics for a popular Facebook page belonging to a Canadian business advocacy group.

October 1, 2019 Election 2019

(Left) the image created by the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers & Businesses of Canada that caught the eye of Facebook fact checkers. (Right) a notice sent to Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers & Businesses of Canada after the group quoted from a Mark Bonokoski column.

FUREY: This election is only worsening the feds' fiscal future

Just before Christmas 2016, the federal finance department quietly released a report on their long-term fiscal prospects. It was based on the assumptions made by the Trudeau Liberal government at the time and the whopping deficits they were projecting to run for the foreseeable future.

September 30, 2019 Columnists

Federal Liberal incumbent candidate Bill Morneau listens during an announcement by federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau at a campaign event in Toronto on Sept. 20, 2019.

FUREY: Parents need to keep a close eye on what the climate strike tells their kids

There’s a famous flashback scene in the old Woody Allen movie Annie Hall where the main character’s mother takes her son to the doctor. She tells the doctor her son is depressed and won’t do anything. The doctor asks why and the sullen boy explains that he read that the universe is continually expanding: “Someday it will break apart, and that will be the end of everything.”

September 26, 2019 Columnists

Young people protest outside of the San Francisco Federal Building during a Climate Strike march in San Francisco on Sept. 20, 2019.

FUREY: The whitewashing of Trudeau’s blackface

When the news first broke that Justin Trudeau had cavorted in blackface back in 2001 it was the incredible hypocrisy of the whole thing that likely struck most people as the big problem.

September 23, 2019 Election 2019

Civil liberties group challenges 'draconian' Liberal election speech law

A Canadian civil liberties group has launched an urgent application against the Trudeau government in the name of free speech, the Sun has learned.

September 17, 2019 Canada

Justin Trudeau arrives for his first election campaign stop in Edmonton, Sept. 12, 2019. (David Bloom/Postmedia Network)

FUREY: Let’s drop this charade that a single decade old tweet should ruin a campaign

Have you ever laughed at a joke that could conceivably be described as sexist or racist? Back in high school did you use a word – even if just once – that isn’t socially acceptable? Have you ever left an even somewhat rude remark on someone’s social media account?

September 13, 2019 Columnists