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Last week, we reported on a column in The Times of London comparing the plight of Lord Black to that of former English Tory...

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

¡Ola! Glad to be home. I notice that City Hall was busy with announcements while I was away. Among them: David Miller wants to...

The abstruse litany on non-competes having reduced journalists to glazy-eyed indifference (or maybe that’s just me), the...

Anyone reading the press reports of the evidence at the Conrad Black trial could be forgiven for not knowing who is winning. Both...

Beyond some late reporting on the Blacks’ party doings in the New York Post and the Daily Mail , today’s offerings are mostly...

In a riveting if slightly creepy aside in her column in this morning’s Times of London , Mary Ann Sieghart reports: “After a...

Scads of breathless gossip in the Star and Sun as (gasp!) Conrad Black attends a book launch at Massey College for Amiel’s...

Court having been adjourned until Monday, this seems as good a time as any to assess the press. Observing the varying degrees and...

The prosecution continues to grind at the idea that, despite the black letter legality of the non-compete agreements, purchasers...

The composite character of Conrad and Barbara Black, which is really what is on trial in Chicago, poses immense problems for their...

There’s a story from AP on the International Herald Tribune Web site stating that, “The University of Haifa announced on...

On first glance, the prosecution’s strategy—blowing up private e-mails that demonstrate Conrad Black at his most...

Non-competes are at the heart of today’s reporting. Michael Reed, an executive from Alabama-based media company Community...

Substantive issues this week include a ruling on whether the identities of the jurors in the case should remain sealed. The...

For several reasons, major fraud trials in Canada are tried without a jury, by a judge alone. One of them is that jury trials are...

Following the lead of Max Ehrmann, a Midwestern sage from another era, Barbara Amiel sought in her latest column published today...

After the first five days, looking at the Conrad Black trial through awards-show glasses becomes difficult. I simply can’t read...

In Chicago, the trial of Conrad Black will turn on whether the jurors blame the context or the man. The numbers are, of...

It’s all starting to run together. Either Eddie Greenspan shone yesterday (the Sun ) or he was a dud (the Star , The Daily Mail...

Budget day (bud’jet daë) n 1. The day of the year when a government discloses how it spends its money, following which, for the...

This weblog goes on vacation all next week. Back again first week of April. Then we get to tackle yet another budget — the...

While the lawyers for the alleged co-conspiring defendants argue which of their clients is the wider-eyed innocent seduced and...

Even though the trial is actually starting to have some content for media beyond Conrad’s moods and Barbara’s outfits, the...