Mark Bonokoski

LATEST STORIES BY MARK BONOKOSKI

BONOKOSKI: Good ideas with the Liberals can be like spitting into wind

While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tiptoes from one crisis to the next, filibustering any committee wanting the goods on the WE Charity scandal and just how badly he has fumbled the pandemic response, the Liberals appear running scared for lack of ideas.

October 22, 2020 Columnists

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks on before unveiling plans for post-coronavirus recovery for Black owned business and entrepreneurs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 9, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: The high life and low lives of Barbara Amiel, a memoir

When Barbara Amiel packed up as editor of the Toronto Sun to move back to England in 1985, the Sun’s Page Six columnist Gary Dunford and I invited her to a farewell lunch at Winston’s, a famous eatery which had the Sun’s popular co-founder, J. Douglas Creighton, as a habitue.

October 19, 2020 Columnists

Former Toronto Sun editor Barbara Amiel is pictured at her gated property in Toronto in May 2012.

BONOKOSKI: Poilievre says Trudeau Liberals using Bank of Canada as ATM

While the Bank of Canada’s independence is hallowed and therefore outside political interference, it’s not so certain it ignores warnings.

October 17, 2020 Columnists

Withdrawing cash from an ATM.

BONOKOSKI: Every party has a war room and hardcore political activists

Anyone who has spent time in an election war room knows a lot of outrageous actions and strategies are raised, laughed about, and ultimately dismissed as too over-the-top to be taken seriously.

October 15, 2020 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Des Moines International Airport on Oct. 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa.

BONOKOSKI: Speak bad words about Trump and suffer wrath of trolls

Nothing will guarantee the gates of hell being thrown open to unleash the vitriol of certain readers than to speak ill of the vulgarian known as U.S. President Donald Trump.

October 14, 2020 Columnists

In this file photo US President Donald Trump speaks to the press in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 5, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: How’s another gas tax of 69 cents per litre sound?

While Canadians are tucking into their Thanksgiving feast — leaving dear ol’ grandpa and grandma in pandemic lockup with their favorite TV dinners — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is again thinking green.

October 10, 2020 Columnists

Gas prices are sky-high thanks in part to the Liberal government's carbon tax.

BONOKOSKI: A dark and stormy night befalls Trudeau’s wanted ‘storyteller’

As reported here briefly, the Privy Council Office — the overseer of all governing politicians — has posted a Help Wanted ad online looking for a “storyteller” willing to parse words for a rather handsome pay packet of $89,415 to $96,461 per annum.

October 8, 2020 Columnists

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on Sept. 25, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: CTV's Marci Ien vies for safest Liberal seat in 27 years

Carrying the Liberal flag into the federal riding of Toronto Centre is like being guaranteed a paycheque of $182,600 a year.

October 7, 2020 Columnists

Marci Ien

BONOKOSKI: Scary how no one knows the depth of the federal deficit

At the age of 14, I was driving a tractor pulling a hay bailer and wagon at my next-door neighbours’ dairy farm in the village of Lyn, a rural community about 15 klicks from Brockville, Ont.

October 5, 2020 Columnists

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks to reporters next to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Aug. 18, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: Memories of an old friend and less sophisticated times

Back in the 1970s, when I was assigned to the police beat, I used to hang around some boxing clubs in Toronto which a certain criminal element almost saw as their offices.

October 3, 2020 Columnists

York Regional Police Supt. Mike Slack during a press conference in front of 5 Decourcy Court, near Major Mackenzie Blvd. and Warden Ave. in Markham, Ont. on Wednesday September 30, 2020. The mansion was seized as a part of Project End Game because it was allegedly being used as a gaming house.

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