Mark Bonokoski

LATEST STORIES BY MARK BONOKOSKI

BONOKOSKI: Dr. Strangetrump and how he learned to love nuking hurricanes

While it sounds like fiction, a rookie Texas congresswoman, but a former seven-year senator, has tabled a resolution to prevent U.S. President Donald Trump from unleashing a nuclear bomb on a hurricane.

June 15, 2020 Columnists

BONOKOSKI: Cops’ two-year contraband tobacco probe scores big-time

It was a very good day on the contraband tobacco enforcement front when the OPP’s task force finally laid out their haul last week from a two-year investigation called Project Cairnes that saw 16 arrested and 11.5 million B.C.-bound cigarettes taken off the black market.

June 13, 2020 Columnists

A two-year investigation dubbed Project Cairnes resulted in the seizure of 11.5 million contraband cigarettes bound for B.C., Ontario Provincial Police revealed on Thursday, June 11, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: Trudeau’s debt clock keeps on ticking up the billions

With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chucking billions of dollars out his Rideau Cottage door almost daily, and seemingly with reckless abandon, ordinary Canadians without PhDs in finance or economics are rightly wondering if our country could possibly be heading for foreclosure.

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June 11, 2020 Columnists

BONOKOSKI: George Floyd's final words sparked a global movement

Somehow, during Tuesday’s interment of a man virtually no one had heard of only two weeks ago, different music refrains lifted above the church in central Houston, the impoverished Third Ward where the latest icon to anti-black racism was born into as if it were meant to be.

June 11, 2020 Columnists

Mourners photograph a mural of George Floyd, whose death in Minneapolis police custody has sparked nationwide protests against racial inequality, in Houston, Texas, U.S. June 8, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: From the ashes, anti-black racism gets heard across America

The fires in America are largely out, and the monied elites of Hollywood purportedly are posting bail for the thugs who were arrested.

June 8, 2020 World

Protesters are seen reflected in the glasses of a law enforcement personnel during a rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, near the White House in Washington, U.S., June 3, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: History circles back on both Meng Wanzhou and Donald Trump

Two cases from the past, one uglier than the other, have found themselves in the midst of two major news stories of the day.

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June 6, 2020 Columnists

Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her Vancouver home to go to her extradition hearing in Vancouver on Jan. 22, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: Trump plays out-of-tune violin as U.S. burns

As riots raged beyond the night curfew across an America already reeling from the financial effects of the coronavirus, never has there been a president so utterly foreign to us.

June 4, 2020 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump walks past a building defaced with graffiti by protestors in Lafayette Park across from the White House on June 1, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: We need a Margaret Thatcher to magically appear

Not to further wound a fractured economy, but there is absolutely no positive financial news from any angle of the COVID-19 crisis.

June 4, 2020 Columnists

Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher is pictured on Dec. 5, 1986 while chairing the EEC Economic Summit held in London's Queen Elizabeth Conference Hall.

BONOKOSKI: Anyone wondering what happened to the House of Commons?

Canadians looking to Ottawa for the cut-and-thrust of parliamentary debate must be wondering what the hell has happened.

June 1, 2020 Columnists

Canadian Members of Parliament arrive for a Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill May 13, 2020 in Ottawa.

BONOKOSKI: Meng Wanzhou; the story that keeps on giving ... and giving

My trip into fantasyland Thursday where Meng Wanzhou was fictionally spirited away from house arrest in her $15-million Vancouver mansion to be tossed into a common detention centre among the unscrubbed from the city’s notorious Downtown Eastside certainly had the mail chute coming to life.

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May 31, 2020 Columnists

Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her home to attend a court hearing in Vancouver on May 27, 2020.

Mark Bonokoski

LATEST STORIES BY MARK BONOKOSKI

BONOKOSKI: Dr. Strangetrump and how he learned to love nuking hurricanes

BONOKOSKI: Cops’ two-year contraband tobacco probe scores big-time

BONOKOSKI: Trudeau’s debt clock keeps on ticking up the billions

BONOKOSKI: George Floyd's final words sparked a global movement

BONOKOSKI: From the ashes, anti-black racism gets heard across America

BONOKOSKI: History circles back on both Meng Wanzhou and Donald Trump

BONOKOSKI: Trump plays out-of-tune violin as U.S. burns

BONOKOSKI: We need a Margaret Thatcher to magically appear

BONOKOSKI: Anyone wondering what happened to the House of Commons?

BONOKOSKI: Meng Wanzhou; the story that keeps on giving ... and giving

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