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: 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

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?

GOLDSTEIN: U.S. House of Representatives says anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism

One of the oldest tricks in the book of tricks by Jew haters is to claim they don’t hate Jews, just “Zionists” and “Zionism,” which means supporting the existence of a Jewish state in the land of Israel.

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December 6, 2023 Columnists

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/kinsella-universities-inaction-on-anti-semitism-all-about-almighty-dollar, writes Lorrie Goldstein.

GOLDSTEIN: I’m done with having to explain myself to Jew haters

I'm not the one shooting up schools, firebombing community centres, vandalizing bookstores, phoning in death threats, painting Swastikas on people's homes, intimidating patrons coming out of restaurants and political events, or trying to block rail lines in Canada

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December 2, 2023 Columnists

Members of Montreal's Jewish community gather for a vigil in Montreal, Canada on Oct. 9, 2023, after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on Israel.

GOLDSTEIN: Emissions keep rising and we keep paying

The United Nations on Thursday will again make a mockery of itself on the issue of climate change.

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November 29, 2023 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s green energy policy means more mining

A typical electric vehicle and its battery requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle

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November 25, 2023 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during the announcement of the VW plant in St. Thomas, Ont. on Friday April 21, 2023.

Jewish doctors at U of T medical school say they 'live in fear'

More than 550 Jewish physicians at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine declared they are Zionists on Wednesday and denounced colleagues and academic leaders at the medical school who they said have issued statements that “make Jews feel unsafe and unwelcome at TFOM.”

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November 23, 2023 Toronto & GTA

A woman walks on the University of Toronto campus.

GOLDSTEIN: Harper had moral clarity about Israel that Trudeau lacks

As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attempts to be all things to all people on the Israel/Hamas war, he lacks moral clarity.

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November 22, 2023 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau 'excited' to show Canadians his fiscal responsibility

Heading into his government’s fall economic statement on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has always exercised fiscal restraint since he was elected in 2015, that Canada has one of the strongest economies in the developed world as a result and electing Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre as PM would endanger those accomplishments.

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November 18, 2023 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives for the leaders and spouses dinner during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Week at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, Friday, Nov. 16, 2023.

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau's Israel tirade hands Canada's anti-Semites a propaganda victory

I don’t know what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was thinking when he significantly changed his position on the Israel-Hamas war Tuesday evening during an event in B.C. unrelated to the conflict, but his choice of words and the way he structured them will fuel anti-Semitism in Canada.

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November 16, 2023 Columnists