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Lorrie Goldstein is Acting Comment Editor of the Toronto Sun. He joined the Sun in 1978, working as a general assignment reporter, feature writer, Toronto City Hall reporter, Queen's Park reporter, columnist and bureau chief, City Editor and Editorial Page Editor. His main focus is on Toronto, Ontario, Canadian and global politics, with a special interest in the many controversies surrounding the issue of global warming.
On a night when federal politicians are supposed to make fun of themselves -- the annual Parliamentary press gallery dinner in Ottawa Saturday -- why did interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose spend so much time mocking former prime minister Stephen Harper?
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne doesn’t seem to understand that her cap-and-trade carbon pricing scheme isn’t an environmental policy but an economic one.
Premier Kathleen Wynne now says she may have to lower her estimate that cap-and-trade will raise $1.9 billion in new revenue for her government next year, in light of the crash of the carbon trading markets in Quebec and California.
How can you tell if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada’s premiers are sincere about fighting climate change through carbon pricing, as opposed to just taking more of our money for their governments?
Premier Kathleen Wynne and Climate Change Minister Glen Murray boast their approach to fighting climate change is based on real-world evidence.
If there’s one thing that’s hard to take from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals — Canada’s natural governing party, as they prefer to call themselves — it’s their perpetual self-righteousness and hypocrisy.
Today let's consider the "apologies" Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made for acting like a dork in the House of Commons last week.
Today, let’s examine how much the Kathleen Wynne and Dalton McGuinty governments have cost Ontarians with their reckless pursuit of expensive, unreliable and unneeded green energy.
Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government passed Ontario’s cap-and-trade law last week, claiming it will cost the average household $156 annually.
One of the great strengths of Liberals is that they couldn’t care less what Conservatives think about them.
Small wonder Premier Kathleen Wynne is in Israel this week.
Small wonder Premier Kathleen Wynne is in Israel this week.
Watching Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals ram their ill-advised cap-and-trade legislation through Queen’s Park, it’s easy to understand every other fiscal disaster they’ve inflicted on taxpayers from eHealth, to the Green Energy Act, to Ornge, to cancelled gas plants.
The next time the Toronto Star publishes a piece by Haroon Siddiqui -- also quoting Torstar Chair John Honderich and now-retired publisher John Cruickshank -- where Sun Media is accused of Islamophobia, a modest request.
Reasonable people are appalled by politicians and environmentalists who want to make hay out of man-made climate change while Fort McMurray is still burning.
Arguing the Fort McMurray fire was caused by man-made climate change and is payback for the oilsands is idiotic on so many levels it’s hard to know where to begin.
Every so often, a premier does something so hypocritical that it merits national public scorn.
Over the past few years I’ve gotten to know a little about Toronto’s music scene because my daughter’s in a band.
It’s hard to tell whether it was deliberate or a gaffe — meaning what happens when a politician accidentally tells the truth — but Ontario Climate Change Minister Glen Murray told the truth last week.
In the wake of the acquittal of Jian Ghomeshi on four counts of sexual assault and one of choking, a cry has gone up from some lawyers and women’s rights advocates that the system for trying such cases needs to be reformed.
As I’m writing this, nuclear power is supplying 63.3% of Ontario’s energy needs and is the main reason — along with natural gas — that Ontario was able to end its reliance on coal-fired electricity last year.
When it comes to addressing climate change, former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty and current Premier Kathleen Wynne deserve credit for one significant thing.
Come voting day on Oct. 19, both NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will want you to think of them as the best left-wing alternative to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives.
For today, let’s assume anthropogenic climate change (man-made global warming) is a serious environmental problem requiring effective action.
Whenever politicians and civic leaders want to extract more money out of our hides, they always tell us it’s for our own good.
The way he’s been playing lately, Argo quarterback Ricky Ray doesn’t need any advice as he prepares to lead his team into the CFL playoffs and, let’s hope, a Grey Cup appearance at the Rogers Centre, Nov. 25.
Now that the United Nations has asked Robert Mugabe to be a global leader for tourism, I’m trying to come up with a good ad campaign for Zimbabwe to help it attract more international visitors.
Conservative columnist Michael Taube recently criticized me and other fiscal conservatives for expressing some sympathy for the Occupy Wall St. movement and its Toronto offshoot.
The story of the Toronto Sun over the past 40 years has been one of pushing for political ideas and causes that represent the views of ordinary, hard-working Canadians, years before they become accepted by the political mainstream.
Question: Who said the following? “Climate change is not your fault for the car you drive, the lights you turn on, or the food you eat.”