Mark Bonokoski

LATEST STORIES BY MARK BONOKOSKI

BONOKOSKI: Payday loan joints speak an ugly language all their own

One of the best ways to get a financial snapshot of Smalltown Canada is to search their main streets for a payday-loan outfit.

September 16, 2020 Columnists

BONOKOSKI: Seniors an easy target for the virus and the critics

What was judged a meagre fine to uber-rich former finance minister Bill Morneau for Election Act violations has Canadian seniors getting kicked around like mangy dogs because each got the government’s $300 old-age stipend when many are rich enough to winter under the Florida sun.

September 15, 2020 Columnists

Many municipalities in the province are making mask-wearing mandatory but for many seniors it is uncomfortable and unfamiliar territory.

BONOKOSKI: Cop shows yanked, but kids’ cartoon, Paw Patrol, survives for now

A recent story in the Wall Street Journal tells of the A&E Network’s ratings (and earnings) nose-diving like a rock jettisoned into a fathoms-deep quarry after it basically surrendered to mob mentality.

September 12, 2020 Columnists

Paw Patrol is an animated children's television show.

BONOKOSKI: Dumb luck? Another multimillion-dollar 'inheritance'

I must be the luckiest man in the world.

September 11, 2020 Columnists

BONOKOSKI: The Tories’ Erin O’Toole — who? — in a pickle

Oh my, take a brief hiatus and return to find the proverbial fan has been flinging it every which way just as the fun’s about to begin.

September 9, 2020 Columnists

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole introduces his Deputy Leader Candice Bergen as they holda a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: Trump tell-all books like 'swimming in greasy canal'

The recent Sunday New York Times dedicated a two-page spread on all the books written by all those U.S. President Donald Trump had fired, plus a tell-all by his niece, Mary Trump (which sold 1.35 million copies in its first week), and by Anonymous, who reportedly still walks the inner circle.

August 8, 2020 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump wears a protective face mask during a tour of the Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies' Innovation Center, a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant where components for a potential coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine candidate are being developed, in Morrrisville, North Carolina, U.S., July 27, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: 'Virtuous Pedophiles' raises concern of top T.O. lawyer

Prominent Toronto attorney Daniel Brodsky, known for his long career advocating for mentally-ill criminals as well as sexual deviants, is concerned about an organization as anonymous as anonymous can be.

August 6, 2020 Columnists

Close up of a hands of a businessman on a keyboard.

BONOKOSKI: Morneau should be fired as finance minister

So Justin Trudeau, our prime minister of high moral fiber, thinks Finance Minister Bill Morneau should “not have accepted” the gifted segments of his family’s trips to Kenya and Ecuador with WE Charity.

August 4, 2020 Columnists

Canada's Minister of Finance Bill Morneau attends a news conference with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa March 11, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: Beware the virus hurricane of flying luggage and evicted tenants

The worst-case scenario often brings out extreme imagery.

with Video

August 1, 2020 Columnists

Protesters converged on the condo where Mayor John Tory lives to demand an end to evictions.

BONOKOSKI: Quebec has anti-major crime plan that Ontario must mirror

Ontario has a great deal to learn from Quebec when it comes to organized crime fighting but has failed to pick up its template, leaving multi-millions in lost tax revenues to annually fall into criminal hands.

July 30, 2020 Columnists

Contraband cigarettes seized near Cornwall are shown in an RCMP handout photo.