Mark Bonokoski

LATEST STORIES BY MARK BONOKOSKI

BONOKOSKI: Will someone PLEASE ANSWER the telephone!?!

Wouldn’t it be joyous if we could simply call Rideau Hall, speak to the Queen’s representative in this great country, and have Prime Minister Justin Trudeau turfed out of office for his lack of credible governance.

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February 7, 2022 Opinion

People wave flags on top of a truck in front of Parliament Hill as truckers and their supporters continue to protest against the COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 6, 2022.

BONOKOSKI: Political spectre of ‘She’s back’ recasts bad memories

If there were ever an email to awaken the membership of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, it’s one that reflected the damages inflicted on the province by the disastrous government of Premier Kathleen Wynne.

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February 5, 2022 Columnists

Former Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne defends her decisions as Premier at Queens' Park, in Toronto, Ont. on Monday Dec. 3, 2018.

BONOKOSKI: Standing alone in the big tent looking for supporters

Maybe the Tories can pull from their hat an attractive young candidate who will invigorate a nation

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February 3, 2022 Columnists

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole introduces his Deputy Leader Candice Bergen at a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 2, 2021.

BONOKOSKI: O’Toole ousted in open rebellion. Who dares be next?

It was no surprise to former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole that he was going to be ousted from his job.

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February 3, 2022 Columnists

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 3, 2021.

BONOKOSKI: The Freedom Convoy crashed and burned

Throughout the early night Saturday, fireworks cut the quiet -21C air, as the adrenaline and the whisky first flowed through parts of the Freedom Convoy.

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January 31, 2022 Opinion

A statue of Terry Fox is adorned with a Canadian flag, protest sign and hat as protesters participating in a cross-country truck convoy gather on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022.

BONOKOSKI: Mainstream media fearful of protesters, oh my

It seems the mainstream media stands accused of winding up the rhetoric in the massive cross-country truckers’ rally to Ottawa, as well as vilifying the protesters.

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January 29, 2022 Columnists

Supporters of truckers protesting the Canadian government’s vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers gathered on the Dilworth Rd. highway 416 overpass, south of Ottawa, as the convoy made its way to the nation's capital on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022.

BONOKOSKI: A hack to get a psychiatrist

So, Bell Let’s Talk was two days ago.

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January 28, 2022 Columnists

BONOKOSKI: Gerry Butts opens the Twitter spoilers on truckers’ rally

*** An earlier version of this column mistakenly attributed quotes from the Western Standard’s Linda Slobodian to James Menzies, editor of Today’s Trucking. The Sun apologizes for the error.

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January 27, 2022 Columnists

Trucks in the “freedom convoy” head east on the Trans-Canada Highway east of Calgary on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. The truckers are driving across Canada to Ottawa to protest the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers.

BONOKOSKI: Being PPE ready did not turn back Indigenous deaths

It is rarely good news when the health system of a small African country such as Botswana — some 70% of it the Kalahari Desert — fares better than Canada.

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January 24, 2022 Columnists

A 3M mask is shown in Mississauga on April 3, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: Old tobacco smuggling routes now shuffling human cargo

It would appear the contraband tobacco smuggling routes within the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory on Cornwall Island, tight by the city of Cornwall on the eastern St. Lawrence Seaway, are now being used to smuggle human cargo.

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January 22, 2022 Opinion

A December 2015 Brockville police investigation seized a large quantity of unstamped, contraband cigarettes, shown in this submitted file photo.

Mark Bonokoski

LATEST STORIES BY MARK BONOKOSKI

BONOKOSKI: Will someone PLEASE ANSWER the telephone!?!

BONOKOSKI: Political spectre of ‘She’s back’ recasts bad memories

BONOKOSKI: Standing alone in the big tent looking for supporters

BONOKOSKI: O’Toole ousted in open rebellion. Who dares be next?

BONOKOSKI: The Freedom Convoy crashed and burned

BONOKOSKI: Mainstream media fearful of protesters, oh my

BONOKOSKI: A hack to get a psychiatrist

BONOKOSKI: Gerry Butts opens the Twitter spoilers on truckers’ rally

BONOKOSKI: Being PPE ready did not turn back Indigenous deaths

BONOKOSKI: Old tobacco smuggling routes now shuffling human cargo

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