Lorrie Goldstein

Lorrie Goldstein is the Editor Emeritus of the Toronto Sun and a member of the Canadian News Hall of Fame. Born and raised in Toronto, he currently writes political columns and editorials for the Toronto Sun and Sun Media. Joining the Sun in 1978, he previously served as Comment Editor, Senior Associate Editor, City Editor, Queen's Park Columnist and Bureau Chief, Toronto City Hall reporter, general assignment reporter and feature writer. Active on social media, Lorrie says being a political columnist for a major daily newspaper is one of the most rewarding and fun jobs anyone can have in journalism, and that anyone who complains about having to do it probably isn't doing it right.

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LATEST STORIES BY LORRIE GOLDSTEIN

GOLDSTEIN: What did their byelection loss teach Liberals? Probably nothing

In the wake of their surprise loss to the Conservatives in the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’s going to remain laser-focused on helping Canadians through tough economic times.

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June 26, 2024 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Why the 'great reset' failed to change the world

Anyone remember the “great reset” theory during the pandemic, which among other things was supposed to put the world on a permanent path to addressing climate change by dramatically lowering industrial greenhouse gas emissions?

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June 22, 2024 Columnists

A sticker placed on Covid-19 signage says to “resist the great reset.”

GOLDSTEIN: Liberals finally pressured into calling IRGC a terrorist group

The question that arises from the decision by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government announced on Wednesday to finally declare Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group is why did it take so long?

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June 19, 2024 Columnists

People take part in a rally in Montreal against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), April 29, 2023.

GOLDSTEIN: Liberal attack on parliamentary budget officer implodes

Any new tax has positive and negative impacts on our economy and on those who pay it

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June 15, 2024 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Canadians have finally worked enough this year to pay off taxes, report says

Thursday is Tax Freedom Day this year, signifying the day when Canadians stop working to pay taxes levied on them by all levels of government and start earning money for themselves, according to an annual survey by the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute.

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June 13, 2024 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau wrong choice to lead fight against foreign interference

The Prime Minister ignored years of warnings about the severity of interference and fought tooth and nail against holding a public inquiry

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June 8, 2024 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s carbon tax makes 80% of us better off? Prove it

The Trudeau government has a simple way to bolster its claim eight out of 10 Canadian households paying the federal carbon tax end up better off financially because of quarterly climate action incentive payments.

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June 5, 2024 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: A word in defence of the Parliamentary Budget Officer

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux and his staff are among the few independent, non-partisan sources of information that critically examine the cost of federal government policies.

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June 1, 2024 Columnists

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux waits to appear before the Senate Committee on National Finance, Oct. 17, 2023 in Ottawa. A Liberal member of Parliament is calling out the parliamentary budget officer for not issuing a more public correction to its carbon price analysis after finding an error in it.

Canada's 'net zero’ greenhouse gas emission targets are ‘wishful thinking’: Report

The Trudeau government’s pledge to achieve “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions in 2050 is impractical and unrealistic, and its 2030 target of cutting emissions up to 45% below 2005 levels could cause significant damage to the Canadian economy, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

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May 28, 2024 Canada

The Trudeau government’s pledge to achieve “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions in 2050 is unrealistic, says a Fraser Institute study.

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau believes he's the chosen one

A good way to understand what drives Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a book written almost three decades ago by the great American conservative thinker Thomas Sowell titled, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy .

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May 25, 2024 Columnists