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Ken Whyte, Conrad Black and a conflict of interest
On a day when the Hollinger three filed joint papers with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in a final effort to delay their...
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William F. Buckley vs. Conrad M. Black
On a day when a repentant David Radler probably got what he deserved (which, as it turns out, is less than half the sentence doled...
City News
Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
Smatterings of Conrad Black in the news today as his portrait by Andy Warhol sells at Sotheby’s for more than expected ($240,000...
City News
Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
The idea that Conrad Black might have his house seized by the American government to pay off his forfeiture is just the chum in...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
However optimistic Lord Black may feel now that he’s settled on A-list appellate lawyer Andrew Frey to carry on his fight at the...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
If there’s one thing that distinguishes British journalists, it’s their willingness—hell, their eagerness—to gouge out a...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
A couple more thoughts on the weekend’s coverage before I turn my attention to today and the run-up to the bail hearing on...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
As the trial rattles toward its denouement sometime on Tuesday of next week and the fate of Black et al. falls into the laps of 12...
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Ken and Barbie
Yesterday morning, The New York Times ran one of those on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand articles meant to reinforce the idea that...
City News
Writerly news
Two things. First, a quick reminder about a previous post : Write Aid, the fundraiser in support of Derek Finkle’s battle to...
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Trial Style
Fashions for the penitent come down to a few options. There are the classics: the hair shirt, in bristly goat, or anything in...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
David Radler is turning out to be a veritable gusher for the defence. Since Monday, his stumblings and “clarifications” have...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
With Radler’s cross-examination set to finish today and the defence contemplating the possibility of a rebuttal from Black, we...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
The laptopped elites from three continents having descended once again on Room 1241, the mighty wattage of their hived mind was...
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Hard Knock Life
In case you were wondering what everybody’s favourite hip hop star’s been up to lately, submerged as I am in the minutiae of...
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Murdoch Most Foul
Among the stray thoughts that ran through Conrad Black’s mind this week, I’m certain more than a few were reserved for Rupert...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
It’s all hands on deck as the prosecution puts the former four-term governor of Illinois, big Jim Thompson, on the stand. Once...
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Only Her Hairdresser Knows
When Barack Obama, presidential hopeful and Men’s Vogue cover boy, was recently on the Late Show With David Letterman , the host...
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Double Standards
Perhaps it’s the first sign of trial-induced dementia, but lately I’ve been struck by certain paradoxical parallels between...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
Many years ago, I was one of those “accident victims” swatted off the back of my bike by a truck. Decades later, I read the...
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The Odd Couple
It’s a cheeky question, I know, but is Conrad Black to American commerce what Sanjaya Malakar is to American entertainment? The...
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Slow News Day
Court having been adjourned until Monday, this seems as good a time as any to assess the press. Observing the varying degrees and...
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Spin Report: Should Babs have stayed home?
The composite character of Conrad and Barbara Black, which is really what is on trial in Chicago, poses immense problems for their...
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Style Watch: Black in Blue
If you were a factory worker and showed up at the warehouse in a suit and tie, teasing colleagues might guess that you were...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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