Mark Bonokoski

LATEST STORIES BY MARK BONOKOSKI

BONOKOSKI: When a name, randomly picked, becomes everyone’s dartboard

Everything was going rather swimmingly last Sunday as I celebrated my (XX) birthday with my wife, both of us still self-isolating as best we can so as to not die too soon, until our favourite weekend program CBS Sunday Morning aired a segment on ‘Karens.’

July 4, 2020 Columnists

Amy Cooper, a Canadian woman who called police and accused black birdwatcher Christian Cooper – no relation – of threatening her after he asked her to put a leash on her dog in a video that went viral.

BONOKOSKI: Big payday on horizon for the criminally demented

It was a long haul for the Toronto law firm of Rochon Genova LLP, some 20 years from stem to almost stern, and with a clientele of some of the most wicked and evil people to ever draw breath.

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July 2, 2020 Columnists

Danny Joanisse is seen outside Ontario Superior Court in Toronto on Monday, April 29, 2019.

BONOKOSKI: Psychiatric doctors condemned for experiments on patients

A landmark judgment by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has finally found a number of psychiatric doctors in a decades-old case liable for assaulting patients, including subjecting them to torture and mind-altering drugs like LSD.

June 29, 2020 Columnists

BONOKOSKI: Fighting my way through prostate cancer hell

What better a day than my birthday to regale the legion of faithful readers on how my prostate cancer is coming.

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June 27, 2020 Columnists

What better a day than my birthday to regale the legion of faithful readers on how my prostate cancer is coming, writes columnist Mark Bonokoski.

BONOKOSKI: Our health-care system needs some serious upgrades

Canadians who believe our health system is one of the best in the world are locked into a fading truth that is more than a half-century old.

June 25, 2020 Columnists

A new report from the non-partisan Macdonald-Laurier Institute says the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted "significant concerns about Canada's health system that for too long have been overlooked (and/or) known.

BONOKOSKI: The long (and bumpy) leadership road of Peter MacKay's mojo

Before the RCMP and Toronto cops began probing Erin O’Toole’s claim that Peter MacKay’s squad hacked confidential data, Ottawa’s pundit class and non-partisan politicos appeared to have already awarded the leadership of the federal Conservatives to MacKay, the party’s long-ago co-founder.

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June 24, 2020 Columnists

Peter MacKay addresses the crowd during a federal Conservative leadership forum in Halifax on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. Even though MacKay threw the party wide open to all persuasions during last week's French-language debate, it is literally 50/50 in caucus support, writes columnist Mark Bonokoski.

BONOKOSKI: Time for Trudeau to get brave and play hardball with China

With bogus espionage charges now laid against Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig by the communist thugs in China, it is time to give China’s ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu, the heave-ho.

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June 22, 2020 Columnists

China's ambassador to Canada Cong Peiwu attends a news conference for a small group of reporters at the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa November 22, 2019.

BONOKOSKI: Increased mental health challenges during pandemic

So, I’m mentally ill. No surprise, right?

June 20, 2020 Columnists

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health buildings on College St. in Toronto on July 23, 2019.

BONOKOSKI: The daunting challenge of training men on toilet-seat etiquette

Since time immemorial, women on the home front have been fighting for their men to put the toilet seat back down when they’re finished their business, and start becoming a true partner in bathroom manners.

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June 18, 2020 Columnists

Since time immemorial, women on the home front have been fighting for their men to put the toilet seat back down when they’re finished their business, and start becoming a true partner in bathroom manners.

BONOKOSKI: Sin taxes a tricky game of give-and-(mostly) take

In the newspaper game, we are taught early on to avoid using phrases such as “spending like a drunken sailor” because drunken sailors do not deserve such a collective tar-brushing.

June 17, 2020 Columnists

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

Mark Bonokoski

LATEST STORIES BY MARK BONOKOSKI

BONOKOSKI: When a name, randomly picked, becomes everyone’s dartboard

BONOKOSKI: Big payday on horizon for the criminally demented

BONOKOSKI: Psychiatric doctors condemned for experiments on patients

BONOKOSKI: Fighting my way through prostate cancer hell

BONOKOSKI: Our health-care system needs some serious upgrades

BONOKOSKI: The long (and bumpy) leadership road of Peter MacKay's mojo

BONOKOSKI: Time for Trudeau to get brave and play hardball with China

BONOKOSKI: Increased mental health challenges during pandemic

BONOKOSKI: The daunting challenge of training men on toilet-seat etiquette

BONOKOSKI: Sin taxes a tricky game of give-and-(mostly) take

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