Mark Bonokoski

Mark Bonokoski, or Bono to his friends, lives in two worlds, and has the best of both — first as a gritty, award-winning columnist and National Editorial Writer for Sun Media for half the week, bunking into a basement squat in one of the dodgier parts of Toronto (or occasionally in a seedy hotel in Ottawa), and then escaping for the rest of the time at his country home on the shores of Baptiste Lake, near Bancroft.
Mark was honored in 2004 with a National Newspaper Award citation for column writing, and has been a frequent winner of the Dunlop Award as Sun Media’s top columnist.
A graduate of the Ryerson University journalism department, his career as a columnist began in 1977, after serving as a general-assignment reporter with the Calgary Herald and the Windsor Star, before joining the Toronto Sun in 1974.
Between 1988 and 1991, he served as Sun Media’s European bureau chief, stationed in London, Eng., covering such international events as the escalating troubles in Northern Ireland, the terrorist bombing of the Pan-Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the coming down of the Berlin Wall, and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. He also travelled extensively in southern Africa.
In 1991, he was named Editor of the Ottawa Sun and, in 1997, he was named the newspaper’s Publisher and CEO.
He returned to his writer’s roots in 2000 as National Affairs columnist for Sun Media, in Ottawa, and then returned to the Toronto Sun as a columnist in 2002, and was later appointed National Editorial Writer for the Sun chain in September, 2010.
To stretch his legs with longer pieces, he has had his freelance work published in Maclean’s and Reader’s Digest.
As well as Outdoor Journal Radio, Mark's radio commentaries can be heard weekends on the Haliburton Broadcasting Group network of Moose-FM radio stations north of the 905.
He has also availed himself as an instructor to fourth-year students at Ryerson University's School of Journalism.

Links:
Toronto Sun
Moose Country