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Conrad Black

Barbara Amiel gains a bleeding heart

Barbara Amiel, the wife of the disgraced Canadian tycoon (Lord) Conrad Black, currently serving a six-and-a-half year sentence in the US for fraudseems to have developed a social conscience. Writing in the latest edition of...

Top court rejects Black bid to keep documents secret

Janice Tibbetts , Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, October 09, 2008 OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada refused Thursday to consider an appeal from former media baron Conrad Black in his bid to keep court documents...

Arts and Culture Rally Says Industry Worth Billions

Arts and culture workers joined together to condemn cuts to arts funding and to criticize attempts to censor film and TV productions at a rally held outside the headquarters of the CBC in Toronto. Organized by ACTRA and the...

18 years jail for tax shelter guru

More evidence that the US Government is cracking down on tax evasion. In April, actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years jail for tax evasion. As expected, he is appealing that sentence.Then last month, his tax guru...

Could Obama be the new Roosevelt? [Barf Alert!]

No one can yet know when the world economy will reach its low point and begin what may be a long climb to recovery. In the past week we have seen a couple of political events that have already proved not to be turning points:...

Could Obama be the new Roosevelt?

The world is facing another crisis of financial confidence - we need an exceptional American president to deal with it No one can yet know when the world economy will reach its low point and begin what may be a long climb to...

Credit crisis soups up Campbell's profits

New Jersey-based company posted 46% rise in quarterly profits last month Global financial collapse isn't necessarily bad news for everybody in the business world. A solitary US company, Campbell's Soup, has been standing ever...

Lawmakers Look to Tax Code to Expedite Donation of FDR Papers (CQPolitics.com)

CQPolitics.com - Here's a recipe for a tasty tax write-off: two lawmakers from New York, one collection of valuable papers from Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, and a dash of the National Archives and Records...

Virgin rebirth

He has just said that he would like to buy London’s Gatwick Airport when it comes on the market next year, and by the end of October he aims to break the transatlantic monohull sailing record. There is no escaping Sir Richard...

STRUGGLING NY SUN GOES DARK

After burning through an estimated $80 million in its six and a half years of operation, the New York Sun is officially closing with today's issue. The sinking stock market torpedoed whatever slim chance the daily paper...

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