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Among the stray thoughts that ran through Conrad Black’s mind this week, I’m certain more than a few were reserved for Rupert...

A game-changing partnership between Cadillac Fairview and the Canadian Olympic Committee

Mayor David Miller has issued a proclamation making today, May 4, 2007, Jane Jacobs Day. Jacobs, author of the seminal work The...

The campaign to have the federal government cough up a share of GST revenues for cities got a shot in the arm yesterday, when the...

Any lingering doubt (and there can’t have been much) that may have plagued Lord Black et al. as to whether they got their...

expense account (x-p’nss a-kown’t) n. A petty cash allocation for office costs, in the amount of $53,000 per city councillor...

The timing is rarely this good, so I might as well take advantage of it. In my last two pieces, I argued, among other things, that...

Just over one month ago, with little fanfare, the Toronto Transit Commission announced that it was launching an international...

With even the odd Brit straggling back to Room 1241 to hear the testimony of Big Jim Thompson (who, if you believe the...

It’s all hands on deck as the prosecution puts the former four-term governor of Illinois, big Jim Thompson, on the stand. Once...

When it comes to the city’s new street furniture contract , you have to take my perspective with a grain of salt. You see, I’m...

After weeks of andante, the case turns lively this week as the prosecution tempo accelerates toward its crescendo and climax. With...

When Barack Obama, presidential hopeful and Men’s Vogue cover boy, was recently on the Late Show With David Letterman , the host...

The prosecution’s version of that other legendary Chicago combination, Tinker to Evers to Chance (Burt to Kravis to...

Perhaps it’s the first sign of trial-induced dementia, but lately I’ve been struck by certain paradoxical parallels between...

Last week, I argued that shareholders are deluded if they think that boards, company auditors, company lawyers and regulators can...

While I’m sure the disinclined will suggest I’m fomenting a tempest in a teapot, this morning’s offerings deliver a plethora...

An excellent story in this morning’s Globe and Mail warns that Toronto’s purchase of the Green Lane landfill near...

What’s past is prologue, and with the arrival of Richard Burt, Shakespeare’s bromide will inform the approach of both sides to...

To update you on yesterday afternoon's post , council passedHoward Moscoe's Tit-for-Tat taxi bylaw forbidding Mississauga taxis...

Some time after nine o’clock yesterday morning, I spied Albert Schultz, who played Conrad Black in the great man’s...

If you’re one of those people who finds themselves sniggering uncontrollably at the following joke: What do you call 10,000...

Just a quick tip for regular readers: watch the local six o’clock news tonight, because what happened today at city...

In a sense, it’s not just Conrad Black who’s on trial but many in a generation of what Peter Newman, in his 1981 second volume...