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: Liberal immigration policy sabotaging Liberal housing policy

Everyone in the Liberal government is saying something has to be done about the immigration policies it created that have contributed to today's affordable housing crisis

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December 30, 2023 Columnists

Primer Minister Justin Trudeau, flanked by Sean Fraser, Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities announced in London, that they would remove the GST from construction of new rental apartments, Sept. 14, 2023.

GOLDSTEIN: Poilievre says Canada faces a debt bomb in new video

In a new 15-minute video posted to ‘X’ on Wednesday, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre argues Canada is facing a potential debt bomb with catastrophic economic and social consequences for Canadians.

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December 28, 2023 Columnists

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023.

GOLDSTEIN: Guilbeault serves up horse manure for Christmas

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says critics of the Trudeau government’s policy to mandate that all new vehicle sales in Canada must be EVs or plug-in hybrids by 2035 are engaged in horse and buggy thinking.

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December 23, 2023 Columnists

Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023.

GOLDSTEIN: Jewish doctors told to watch what they say on social media

A coalition of more than 550 Jewish doctors and students at the University of Toronto’s medical school says an online social media campaign is being waged against them and other Jewish doctors in a bid to silence their views on the Israel/Hamas war in Gaza and its political fallout in Canada.

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December 20, 2023 Columnists

Dr. Philip Berger is pictured. A coalition of more than 550 Jewish doctors at the U of T medical school says an online social media campaign is being waged against them.

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau sucks and blows on the war in Gaza

Bait-and-switch diplomacy – promising a superior product and then delivering an inferior one – is a lousy way to run Canada’s foreign policy.

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December 16, 2023 Columnists

Justin Trudeau with his palm facing front

GOLDSTEIN: Why are race-crime statistics banned in studies of police racism?

The final report into anti-Black racism in the Toronto Police Service released Thursday by the Ontario Human Rights Commission tells us nothing new from its previous findings in two interim reports released in 2020 and 2018, based on research using police data that started in 2017.

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December 14, 2023 Columnists

The Toronto Police Services emblem is photographed during a press conference at TPS headquarters, in Toronto on Tuesday, May 17, 2022.

GOLDSTEIN: Jews don’t count at UN and this time Canada agreed

Only at the United Nations — and only about Israel — would the UN General Assembly call for a “ceasefire” in a war while disgracefully avoiding any mention of who and what started it.

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December 13, 2023 Columnists

Fewer Canadians are donating to charity and they're giving less: Report

While making donations to charity is a constant theme during the annual holiday season, the reality is that the percentage of Canadians donating to charity has plummeted over the last decade.

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December 12, 2023 Canada

Fewer Canadians are donating to charity and they're giving less, according to the Fraser Institute.

GOLDSTEIN: Meeting UN’s absurd emission targets would bankrupt Canada

Every major United Nations conference on climate change ends the same way – with absurd political hype over adopting meaningless catch phrases and setting imaginary goals that its 195 member nations will then fail to achieve.

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December 9, 2023 Columnists

Canada's Minister of the Environment Steven Guilbeault speaks to journalists after a plenary meeting during the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Quebec, on Dec. 19, 2022.

GOLDSTEIN: Tsunami of critical reports show Canadian health care is on life support

If every government in Canada — federal and provincial — is treating health care as a priority, then why is the system irretrievably broken, year after year?

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December 7, 2023 Columnists