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: Feds risk 'doom loop' by failing to rein in deficits: report

The Trudeau government’s assurances of Canada’s financial sustainability under its leadership are meaningless because they don’t account for the possibility of future recessions, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

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February 1, 2024 Columnists

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland receives applause as she delivers the federal budget in the House of Commons

GOLDSTEIN: The terrible costs of Canada’s dysfunctional immigration system

For Lisa Loumakos, it led to a $60,000 medical bill for her late mother

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January 27, 2024 Columnists

Lisa Loumakos holds an old photo of her mom Stella Skarmoutsos with her daughter Zoey, now 15, on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Stella, 77, died of lung cancer in her daughter's Mississauga home on Sept. 22, 2023, before she was able to secure her permanent resident status so Lisa is now on the hook for $60,000 in medical bills.

GOLDSTEIN: Size, cost of civil service out of control under Trudeau government, report finds

The Trudeau government has increased the size of the federal public service by 37.9%, or almost 100,000 additional employees, since coming to power in 2015, according to a new study by the Montreal Economic Institute.

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January 25, 2024 Columnists

As of March 31, 2023, the total number of federal employees reached 357,247, the study says, marking the biggest staff increase since 1984.

GOLDSTEIN: Interest on government debt costing Canadians $81.8 billion this year: Report

Canadian taxpayers will shell out an estimated $81.8 billion in interest payments on total federal and provincial government debt of $2.2 trillion this year, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

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January 25, 2024 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: The Israel-Hamas war will end – the anti-Semitism won’t

And many Jews living in places like Toronto will never look at their city in the same way again

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January 20, 2024 Columnists

An Indigo store in downtown Toronto is plastered with red paint and posters accusing CEO Heather Reisman of "funding genocide."

GOLDSTEIN: PM’s flip-flop on Mideast war shows we’re not a serious country

The Trudeau government’s botched announcement on whether Canada supports South Africa’s argument before the world court that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, is just more proof that Canada under its current federal government is not a serious country.

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January 17, 2024 Columnists

Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, speaks at the Australia-Canada Economic Leadership Forum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, July 18, 2023.

GOLDSTEIN: The shameless hypocrisy of putting world’s only Jewish state on trial for genocide

The International Court of Justice has never issued a direct finding of genocide against any other country since it was founded by the UN in 1945

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January 13, 2024 Columnists

Pictures of the hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7 Hamas cross-border attack in Israel are placed by a table set during a protest outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.

GOLDSTEIN: Federal and provincial government debt soared 85% since 2007: report

Canadian taxpayers face major fiscal challenges because federal and provincial governments have increased Canada’s combined public debt over the past 16 years by 85%, according to a new study by the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute, released Thursday.

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January 11, 2024 Columnists

Chrystia Freeland speaks with Canadian flags in the background

GOLDSTEIN: Explosion of anti-Semitism is the canary in the coal mine

Jews will be the first victims but the hatred will metastasize and spread to others

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January 6, 2024 Columnists

Flags of Israel and Palestine painted on cracked wall.

GOLDSTEIN: Guilbeault’s plastics ban produces more garbage

Fresh from a recent federal court ruling that his ban on single-use plastics was “unreasonable and unconstitutional,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault wants to create a national plastics registry to track the lifecycle of the 4.4 million tonnes of plastic Canadians use every year.

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January 3, 2024 Columnists