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: ‘One and done’ isn’t working for the Conservatives

Before the Conservatives decide Pierre Poilievre’s political fate, they should consider how their “one and done” approach of dumping their leader after one election loss, ever since Stephen Harper was defeated in 2015, has worked out for them.

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May 7, 2025 Columnists

Waiting for health care cost Canadians $5.2 billion last year: Study

Canada’s medical wait times — among the longest in the developed world — cost Canadians waiting for treatment almost $5.2 billion in lost wages last year, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

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May 6, 2025 Opinion

Medical wait times cost Canadians waiting for treatment almost $5.2 billion in lost wages last year, according to the Fraser Institute.

GOLDSTEIN: Liberals and Conservatives must accept new reality of minority governments

Election results show Canadians want them working together for the common good rather than constantly warring with each other

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May 3, 2025 Columnists

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal Leader Mark Carney.

GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s claim he wants to make Canada energy superpower is suspect

The problem with Prime Minister Mark Carney saying he wants to make Canada an “energy superpower” in both conventional and clean energy is that Canada is already a superpower in conventional energy.

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April 30, 2025 Columnists

Liberal Leader Mark Carney smiles during a campaign stop at the Elmsdale Lumber Company in Elmsdale, N.S., on March 25, 2025.

GOLDSTEIN: Electing Carney will mean cutting our economic throat

Of all the reasons not to elect Mark Carney as the next prime minister of Canada on Monday, his history as the world’s leading corporate booster of achieving “net zero emissions” by 2050 is the biggest.

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April 26, 2025 Columnists

Liberal Leader Mark Carney speaks during a campaign rally in London, Ont., Friday, April 25, 2025.

GOLDSTEIN: Why Jews should vote for the Conservatives

In my neighbourhood where many Jewish Canadians live, there is still a Toronto police mobile field command unit operating in the parking lot of a prominent Jewish day school, set up in the wake of Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

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April 23, 2025 Columnists

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre greets local Conservative Party of Canada candidates after making a campaign stop in Surrey on Sunday, April 20, 2025.

GOLDSTEIN: How mercy to the guilty became cruelty to the innocent in Canada

Poilievre would have to invoke the notwithstanding clause to give judges the option of imposing consecutive life sentences on multiple and mass murderers

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April 19, 2025 Federal Elections

A make-shift memorial for innocent 12-year-old Dante Sebastian Andreatta who was killed by a stray bullet fired during a gang shootout in 2020.

GOLDSTEIN: Canada's air quality among best in the world, report finds

Canada ranks better than any other member of G7 nations, according to new study by Fraser Institute

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April 17, 2025 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Liberal spending on climate change has been a $200-billion disaster

Given that the federal Liberal government has earmarked more than $200 billion of taxpayers’ money to fight climate change, how effective has all that spending been?

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April 16, 2025 Columnists

Liberal government's high immigration policy created housing crisis: report

The federal Liberal government is belatedly trying to fix a housing affordability crisis it created though immigration policies which caused population growth to far exceed Canada’s capacity to build new homes to accommodate it, according to a new Fraser Institute study.

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April 15, 2025 Canada