Mark Bonokoski

LATEST STORIES BY MARK BONOKOSKI

BONOKOSKI: The losing leadership of NDP’s Andrea Horwath

Why the NDP membership sticks with Andrea Horwath as its Ontario leader is a question which baffles anyone with brains.

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May 11, 2022 Columnists

Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath looks on during a news conference announcing her party's plan to lower auto insurance rates by 40% if elected, during a campaign stop in Brampton on Wednesday, May 11, 2022.

BONOKOSKI: In this corner, Jean Charest, in the other Pierre Poilievre

As evidenced at Preston Manning’s annual gathering of high-end conservatives last week in the nation’s capital, there was no love lost among the top candidates vying for the Conservative Party leadership.

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May 9, 2022 Columnists

Conservative Party of Canada leadership contenders Jean Charest (L) and Pierre Poilievre.

BONOKOSKI: Taxman wrongly ripping off Kabul’s Canadian Embassy Afghans

‘Let me tell you how it will be. There’s one for you, 19 for me. ‘Cause I’m the taxman Yeah, I’m the taxman.”

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May 7, 2022 Columnists

Canada Revenue Agency National Headquarters in Ottawa.

BONOKOSKI: To many thousands of alumni, it will always be Ryerson

We thankfully pre-date the woke crowd

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May 5, 2022 Columnists

Crews are pictured as they take down a "Ryerson University" sign off one of the institution's buildings. The school will now be called Tornto Metropolitan University.

BONOKOSKI: The Donald’s lawyers always make the gossip mags

Former U.S. president Donald Trump, forever bombastic, is now being fined $10,000 a day — yes, $10,000 a day — for allegedly failing to adequately respond to a subpoena issued in the state attorney general’s civil investigation into his business dealings.

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May 4, 2022 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump pauses as he announces his decision that the United States will withdraw from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2017.

BONOKOSKI: Making Tories worth a damn to the national electorate

Can Conservatism be made relevant to Canadians?

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May 2, 2022 Columnists

Canada's Conservative Party interim leader Candice Bergen speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February 3, 2022.

BONOKOSKI: Populist dynamo Pierre Poilievre scares progressive elite

Pierre Poilievre is a populist politician — there’s that demonizing word again — and, as a result, he scares the bejeebers out of the political elite.

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April 30, 2022 Columnists