Mark Bonokoski

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BONOKOSKI: If Trudeau’s Canada is back, where’s the better land he promised?

Four years ago, fresh off an astounding victory where the hard-edged Stephen Harper Conservatives were mercilessly slain, Justin Trudeau shouted out the words an enraptured electorate was yearning to hear and believe.

November 16, 2019 Columnists

Liberal leader and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives on stage after the federal election at the Palais des Congres in Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 22, 2019.

BONOKOSKI: Talks with Trudeau leave the West jilted and fending for itself

There was not a lot of love in the air.

November 15, 2019 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Saskatchewan's Premier Scott Moe on Parliament Hill in Ottawa November 12, 2019. REUTERS/Patrick Doyle

BONOKOSKI: ‘Bland’ Peter MacKay throws ‘zingers,’ then retreats

When former Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay first strung the “stinking albatross” around the unsuspecting neck of Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, it didn’t quite sound like Peter MacKay.

November 13, 2019 Columnists

Peter MacKay (left) shakes hands with Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer while campaigning a few days before the Oct. 21 election in Little Harbour, N.S. (Reuters)

BONOKOSKI: A Remembrance Day 30 years ago and an airman lost

Thirty years ago, on a Remembrance Day that stands out like no other, I was on my way out of Berlin, the Berlin Wall having suddenly fallen two days previously in a momentous event that absolutely no one saw coming.

November 11, 2019 Columnists

Remembrance Day ceremonies at Old City Hall cenotaph on Nov. 11, 2019. (Veronica Henri, Toronto Sun)

BONOKOSKI: Ontario changes 'contraband' to less contentious term

Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips, once a top executive in the hard-hit newspaper business, just laid out the province’s fall economic outlook where numbers in the red ink side of the ledger are in the billions.

November 9, 2019 Columnists

Contraband cigarettes seized near Cornwall are shown in an RCMP handout photo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-RCMP)

BONOKOSKI: Remembering the death of the Berlin Wall, icon of the Cold War

The momentous event many believed their lifetimes would never see occurred 30 years ago Saturday when the Berlin Wall came crashing down in a flurry of pickaxes, bulldozers and political uncertainty.

November 7, 2019 Columnists

A couple walk past original sections of the former Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery on the day before the 25th anniversary of German reunification on Oct. 2, 2015 in Berlin. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

BONOKOSKI: Elizabeth May, the Green leader who made her one seat a throne

Why, pray tell, is such a big deal being made of Elizabeth May quitting as leader of the Green Party of Canada when her major contribution to our democracy was a decade of warming a single seat in the House of Commons?

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November 6, 2019 Columnists

Elizabeth May announces Jo-Ann Roberts as the interim party leader during a news conference in Ottawa, Monday November 4, 2019. May announced she is stepping down as the party leader. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

BONOKOSKI: While Andrew Scheer fights the knives, Justin Trudeau’s off surfing

Our prime minister, re-elected but not humbled, has virtually gone to ground since his vainglorious victory speech, his itinerary jam-packed with “private meetings” until he flew off over the weekend to again surf off the Vancouver Island town of Tofino.

November 4, 2019 Columnists

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau arrives at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts in Windsor, Ont., on Oct. 14, 2019 during a campaign stop with local candidates. (DAN JANISSE/The Windsor Star)

BONOKOSKI: If Why Generation is going to save the world, it’s time for a re-think

The financial news hasn’t been exactly great lately in our divided country — not that many Canadians pay much attention to it.

November 2, 2019 Columnists

Thousands of protesters march on the streets during the global climate strike in Montreal, Canada on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. (MARTIN OUELLET-DIOTTE/AFP/Getty Images)

BONOKOSKI: Patrick Brown goes to dark side in blasting Conservatives

When the former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives writes an opinion piece for the newspaper that treated him like dog dirt, any notion that it might be conservative-friendly comes to an abrupt halt.

October 31, 2019 Columnists

Patrick Brown meets with the Toronto Sun's Antonella Artuso and James Wallace a day after registering his candidacy for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, on Saturday February 17, 2018.