"[3] Before returning to newspapers, he was a senior communications advisor and speechwriter for former federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt.
[4] His father was originally from rural Saskatchewan and served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
He worked as a general assignment reporter with the Calgary Herald and then the Windsor Star before joining the Toronto Sun in 1974.
[8] In a round of layoffs at Sun Media, Bonokoski's contract was terminated and his final column appeared July 20, 2013.
He also provided weekly commentaries to the Haliburton Broadcasting Group network of Moose-FM radio stations in Ontario's cottage country under their sale to a Western Canadian chain.
In 2013, he was appointed Director of Communications for Tim Hudak, who was Leader of the Opposition Progressive Conservatives in Ontario until the party's defeat in the 2014 provincial election.