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

High school confidential: Report ranks academic performance of Ontario’s secondary schools

The Fraser Institute released its annual report card on the academic performance of 689 Ontario secondary schools on Thursday, one of the few tools parents have to compare the quality of education in high schools across the province.

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May 23, 2024 Columnists

The Fraser Institute released its annual report card on the academic performance of 689 Ontario secondary schools on Thursday.

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s pledge of open access to government information lies in ruins

Among all of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s broken promises, the most cynical has been the abandonment of his pledge in the 2015 election campaign that brought him to power, to deliver open and transparent government to Canadians.

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May 18, 2024 Columnists

Canadians’ standard of living is on the decline: Report

Canadians are currently experiencing one of the worst and longest declines in their standard of living in decades, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.

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May 16, 2024 Opinion

Canadians are experiencing one of the worst and longest declines in their standard of living in decades, according to the Fraser Institute.

GOLDSTEIN: Canadians’ standard of living is on decline, report says

Canadians are currently experiencing one of the worst and longest declines in their standard of living in decades, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.

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May 16, 2024 Columnists

Canadians are currently experiencing one of the worst and longest declines in their standard of living in decades, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.

GOLDSTEIN: A reader’s response to my column on ‘Taqiyya’

The Toronto Sun recently received a response criticizing my April 27 column, “The lying liars of Hamas and the useful idiots who believe them: Hamas practises ‘Taqiyya’ — a religious justification for lying to enemies in war,” from Walter Thomas Beckett.

May 15, 2024 Columnists

A Palestinian gunman attends the funeral of Mohammad Shahmawi after was killed during a raid by Israeli forces on April 12, 2024, al-Faraa camp in the occupied West Bank, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.

GOLDSTEIN: The great Rex Murphy believed – horrors! – Canada isn’t racist

Political commentary in Canada lost one of its giants last week

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May 11, 2024 Columnists

Rex Murphy, the political commentator who represented Atlantic Canada on a national stage, died of cancer on May 9, 2024.

GOLDSTEIN: Appeasing Jew-haters emboldens them

The city of Ottawa handed Canada’s Jew-haters a propaganda victory this week when it announced it is cancelling an annual ceremony scheduled for May 14, marking the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.

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May 9, 2024 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau government keeps moving goalposts on climate targets

A major problem with evaluating the effectiveness of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s $200-billion climate change plan involving more than 100 government programs is that the government keeps retroactively changing the historical record of Canada’s annual industrial greenhouse gas emissions.

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May 4, 2024 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers remarks at the second intergovernmental leaders' forum for self-governing Indigenous governments, Thursday, May 2, 2024 in Gatineau, Que.

GOLDSTEIN: Long medical wait times costing Canadians billions, report says

Long wait times for medical treatment cost 1.2 million Canadian patients an estimated $3.5 billion in out-of-pocket expenses last year, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

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May 2, 2024 Columnists