Brian Lilley
Political Columnist at Toronto Sun
Political columnist for the Toronto Sun. I write about federal and Ontario politics. Sometimes other stuff. I tweet about @NDFootball and movies.
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3 days ago |
torontosun.com | Brian Lilley
There are hopeful signs in the picks Mark Carney made for cabinet, there are also some worrisome appointments. The main question to be asked, though, is whether these appointees will rise to the challenges facing Canada and can they fix the problems at hand? Let’s hope so because the country needs it.
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4 days ago |
torontosun.com | Brian Lilley
More than half of the beds in Toronto's vastly expanded shelter system are asylum seekers and that is the real problem. Get the latest from Brian Lilley straight to your inboxThe main sense you get from reading the latest city report on homelessness is that this is an industry. As with any industry, the last thing it wants to do is go out of business which is why the “solutions” offered up are about perpetuating the problem, not solving it.
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4 days ago |
torontosun.com | Brian Lilley
LILLEY: What to expect as Mark Carney puts his government together An enlarged but still trimmed down cabinet will be unveiled Tuesday by a PM set to govern like he has a majority. Get the latest from Brian Lilley straight to your inboxThe new cabinet will be sworn in on Tuesday at Rideau Hall and while his previous cabinet has only been sworn in for less than two months, we should expect some changes.
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6 days ago |
brianlilley.com | Brian Lilley
Joe Rogan caused waves in certain Canadian political circles this past week when he revealed that he had invited Pierre Poilievre onto his podcast but Poilievre’s team declined. My colleague Mark Daniell wrote the story up for the Toronto Sun detailing that the Conservative leader was approached by several American media outlets and said no to all of them. “I offered to have that Pierre guy come on the podcast. He didn’t do it. Wouldn’t do it. Thought it was too problematic,” Rogan said.
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6 days ago |
brianlilley.com | Brian Lilley
Mark Carney went to the White House this week and most of the commentary is that he did well. In my column for the Toronto Sun, I noted that Carney changed his tune from “Elbows Up” to quite literally “Thumbs Up” when he met Trump. Gone was the tough talking rhetoric of the campaign, which I thought was foolish and counterproductive, and in was the mutual admiration society between Carney and Trump.
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