Mark Bonokoski

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BONOKOSKI: Pandemic or not, Trudeau must deny the 'Eavesdropping Dragon'

Almost forgotten under the massive load of information on the COVID-19 pandemic is the pressing need to finally bring the Huawei drama to an end.

March 18, 2020 Columnists

BONOKOSKI: Are there enough hospital beds (or body bags)?

With COVID-19 relentlessly stalking us, diminished health-care funding by the federal government, and the provinces’ subsequent cuts in response, will be in the public’s crosshairs if something goes horribly wrong.

March 16, 2020 Canada

BONOKOSKI: T.O. gangbangers 'trapped' in Thunder Bay drug bust

Judging by the police blotter, it would appear a group of Toronto-area gangbangers thought the exportation of their drug peddling skills would go down well up north in Thunder Bay.

March 14, 2020 Columnists

BONOKOSKI: So what if Trudeau’s in self-isolation, the economy keeps on tanking

Friday the 13th — now hanging ominously over us — is so famously unlucky that it even has a phobia dedicated to it: Friggatriskaidekaphobia.

March 13, 2020 Columnists

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau leave Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Sept. 11, 2019. (Reuters/Patrick Doyle/File Photo)

BONOKOSKI: Mao wasn't so bad if you discount the murdered millions

Mao Zedong, China’s founding communist dictator and inspiration for what has been romanticized as The Little Red Book (a must-have knapsack item for old hippies and lefty university professors), was responsible for the deaths of upwards of 50 million people through the planned upheavals of starvation, persecution, prison labour and mass executions.

March 11, 2020 Columnists

A security guard wearing a facemask to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in Wuhan, stands beside a portrait of the late Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong at a shopping centre in Beijing on January 27, 2020. (NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)

BONOKOSKI: Freeland the PM's go-to for everything

Not to be too indelicate, but it’s a wonder Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hasn’t jammed a broom up Chrystia Freeland’s rear so she can sweep the floors while she does everything else.

March 9, 2020 Columnists

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, attends a memorial for the victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane which was shot down in Iran, at Convocation Hall in Toronto, on Jan. 12, 2020. (Reuters)

BONOKOSKI: Big Tobacco Canada is on its knees, gasping for air like a smoker

After killing multi-millions, and assisting contraband tobacco manufacturers decades ago with an end run that gifted them the machines and the expertise, Big Tobacco appears to be wheezing its own last gasp.

March 7, 2020 Columnists

BONOKOSKI: Pretending to be PM not as easy as Trudeau thought

It is no surprise the majority of Canadians are not thrilled with the way Justin Trudeau has handled the rail blockade crisis.

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March 5, 2020 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) annual conference in Toronto, Ontario, on March 2, 2020.

BONOKOSKI: 50K jobs turn into zero, but what about Bieber’s ’stache?

It’s often the small things that governments do with our hard-earned money that drive taxpayers up the wall.

March 4, 2020 Columnists

Pedestrians on Wellington Ave near Parliament Hill as the snow gets ready to fall on Wednesday evening.

BONOKOSKI: The Wet'suwet'en scenario exposed Trudeau’s weakness

After three days of purportedly intense talks in the northern B.C. hamlet of Smithers, Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett came out recognizing the hereditary governance system of the Wet’suwet’en Nation as if some major battle had been won.

March 2, 2020 Columnists

Wet'suwet'en hereditary leader Chief Woos, also known as Frank Alec, centre, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relation, Carolyn Bennett, left, and B.C. Indigenous Relations Minister Scott Fraser arrive to address the media in Smithers, B.C.. on Sunday.