Mark Bonokoski

LATEST STORIES BY MARK BONOKOSKI

BONOKOSKI: Hellish long-term care facilities like death’s waiting rooms

Throughout my mother’s elder years as her physical capacity waned, she feared with noticeable mental anguish the prospect of spending her last days in a long-term care facility.

May 28, 2020 Columnists

COVID-19-Diane Colangelo visits her 86-year-old mother Patricia through a window at the Orchard Villa long-term care home in Pickering on Wednesday April 22, 2020. Both daughter and mother were in tears.

BONOKOSKI: Give Meng Wanzhou a taste of real detention life

Now that she’s back home, the time has come to haul Meng Wanzhou out of her $15 million Vancouver mansion where she remains under house arrest, toss her pampered tush into a prisoner-transport truck and place her in a real detention centre with some of the junked-up and unscrubbed denizens of Vancouver’s notorious Lower East Side.

May 27, 2020 Columnists

Huawei Technologies chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her house on her way to a court appearance on Jan. 17, 2020, in Vancouver.

BONOKOSKI: It's tough to pay taxes while struggling to cover rent

With well over 1 million Canadians unemployed due to COVID-19’s invasion into their lives, and countless others living on cutback hours, the Trudeau Liberals must have great confidence in the virus-bushwhacked taxpayer fulfilling their contributions to Revenue Canada.

May 25, 2020 Columnists

Shocked young woman using digital tablet at home

BONOKOSKI: Mississauga-Erin Mills constituent's concern over 'Two Michaels' shamefully ignored

If there were an award for persistence, and trying to get his Liberal MP to at least acknowledge his existence, it is Kevin Ryan.

May 23, 2020 Columnists

Michael Kovrig (left) and Michael Spavor, the two Canadians detained in China, are shown in these 2018 images taken from video.

BONOKOSKI: Follow the money trail and it often leads to a winning politician

No one who has closely followed federal politics in Canada can pinpoint exactly when the line was crossed, but we don’t always elect the best politician but often a politician with the most money.

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May 21, 2020 Columnists

Those seeking nomination in federal politics for the first time need money. And, by Election Canada’s rules, there is no reimbursement.

BONOKOSKI: WHO has lost credibility needed to judge itself

The World Health Organization has metaphorically become one of those Third World buses of countless tragedies, careening down a treacherous mountain road with its brake lines spewing oil and a hairpin turn mere seconds away.

May 20, 2020 Columnists

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus applauds while delivering a speech at the opening of the World Health Assembly virtual meeting from the WHO headquarters in Geneva.

BONOKOSKI: Santa, snorkels and the strange world of COVID-19

Down in La-La Land, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva released a video showing inmates at a correctional facility closely huddled together as if BFFs, taking swigs of water from the same cup and passing around a mask for everyone to breathe into deeply.

May 16, 2020 Columnists

Video released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows prisoners in a correctional facility sharing a cup of water and taking turns breathing through a mask in an effort to catch the coronavirus and get time off their sentence.

BONOKOSKI: Has the high-flying Peter MacKay come down to Earth?

Before card-carrying Conservatives lick the envelope to seal their vote for their next federal leader, they might be wise to ask front-runner Peter MacKay if his tastes are now less extravagant.

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May 15, 2020 Columnists

Conservative leadership candidate Peter MacKay greets supporters at a meet and greet event in Ottawa on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: Seniors easy target for both virus and critics

Canadian seniors are now getting kicked like dead dogs because each will get the government’s new $300 stipend for geezers when many are rich enough to spend their winters sucking pina coladas in Florida.

May 13, 2020 Columnists

BONOKOSKI: MacKay and O’Toole need to Trump-up leadership campaigns

The emails from Donald Trump are now coming in fast and furiously — more than all the campaign missives from Canadian leadership contenders Peter MacKay and Erin O’Toole combined — with November’s presidential election approaching faster than Paul Revere approaching midnight.

May 12, 2020 Columnists

The Trump campaign is offering welcome mats and other goodies to donors.