Mark Bonokoski

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BONOKOSKI: Buying out contraband tobacco players would save Canadian lives

Big Tobacco is the devil, of course, producing a highly addictive and deadly product loaded with all sorts of nastiness, including arsenic and cancer-causing toxins that would be illegal if not confined to a legal product.

December 22, 2019 Columnists

A smoker puts out a cigarette in a public ash tray in Ottawa on May 31, 2016. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)

BONOKOSKI: Liberal MP Majid Jowhari having a really bad day

Liberal MP Majid Jowhari, first elected in 2015 in the Ontario riding of Richmond Hill, has himself in another pickle after a broadcast on an Iranian-language television network accused him of working with Iran’s Islamic dictatorship and accepting its financial support along the way.

December 20, 2019 Columnists

Federal Liberal candidate Majid Jowhari. Handout

BONOKOSKI: The wrongly convicted to finally get rightful day in court

Deep in the recesses of the mandate letter given to Justice Minister and Attorney General David Lametti by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are directions for Lametti to implement an independent Criminal Case Review Commission that has been long needed and a long time coming.

December 18, 2019 Columnists

Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti speaks to media in the House of Commons foyer on Parliament Hill in Ottawa December 12, 2019. REUTERS/Blair Gable

BONOKOSKI: The slow but successful choking of Andrew Scheer's leadership

Andrew Scheer, gone as leader of the Conservatives, skipped out of the last question period of 2019, but who could blame him?

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December 17, 2019 Columnists

Conservative Deputy Leader Leona Alleslev listens as Andrew Scheer speaks with the media in the foyer of the House of Commons in West Block, Thursday November 28, 2019 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

BONOKOSKI: When it comes to dying in Ottawa, the quicker the better

If you live in Ottawa, and you can see the end of life’s road, it would be best to just kick the bucket in one burst of life-ending trauma.

December 14, 2019 Columnists

General Hospital (or University of Ottawa, General Campus) on Aug. 16, 2018. (Julie Oliver/Postmedia Network)

BONOKOSKI: Trudeau Liberals rack up first loss as Scheer suddenly resigns

The bashers of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer have won.

December 12, 2019 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with Andrew Scheer after Scheer announced he will step down as leader of the Conservatives, Thursday December 12, 2019 in the House of Commons in Ottawa.

BONOKOSKI: Oh Lord it’s hard to be humble, when impeached in every way

Washington D.C. was the place to be on the good-news-bad-news front when Democrats finally gave thumbs-up to amendments to a renegotiated NAFTA while also finding time to throw America’s president under their bus.

December 11, 2019 Columnists

Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland looks on while Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador shakes hands with Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, during a meeting at the Presidential Palace, in Mexico City, Mexico December 10, 2019.

BONOKOSKI: Kenney descends on Ottawa, fully armed but desperate

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s first scheduled face-to-face since the election Tuesday with Justin Trudeau has all the makings of being a doozy.

December 9, 2019 Columnists

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney speaks about his coming government trip to Ottawa during a press conference at the Alberta legislature in Edmonton, on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. (Ian Kucerak/Postmedia)

BONOKOSKI: When Scheer-bashing becomes boring, it’s time to aim elsewhere

Perhaps it’s best to await former Harper cabinet minister John Baird’s internal review of what went wrong in the Conservatives’ election campaign to fully leak out before the stoning of Andrew Scheer continues.

December 7, 2019 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Conservative Party leader and Leader of the Official Opposition Andrew Scheer on Parliament Hill on Nov. 12, 2019. (REUTERS/Patrick Doyle)

BONOKOSKI: Trudeau’s secret Aga Khan vacation still has much to be judged

As Parliament resumes, veteran newsman Peter Kent vows to get to the bottom of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s rather excellent but also rather dodgy 2016 Christmas vacation with family and friends to the billionaire Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas.

December 6, 2019 Columnists

Justin Trudeau and the billionaire Aga Khan in 2016.