Conrad Black

Editorial: Judicious use of power to pardon

Presidential pardons, despite their regretful reputation, serve an important function. It's become a favorite guessing game: Who will President Bush forgive at the end of his term? Judging from his history on the issue, Bush...

Judicious use of power to pardon

Presidential pardons, despite their regretful reputation, serve an important function. It's become a favorite guessing game: Who will President Bush forgive at the end of his term? Judging from his history on the issue, Bush...

Conrad Black asks Bush for pardon

People who read this also read ... WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Disgraced former media tycoon Conrad Black is asking U.S. President George Bush for clemency from his 6 and a-half year prison sentence, officials said. Black, 64,...

Federal lawyer questions reliability of accused synagogue bomber's testimony

OTTAWA - A federal lawyer accused university professor Hassan Diab of giving unreliable testimony Friday as he argued a Superior Court judge should deny him bail on charges of murder laid in France in...

People inclined to steal if others breaking rules

Sun If you saw $10 in an envelope sticking out of a mailbox, would you steal the money, or pop the envelope in the mail? If there is graffiti all over the mailbox or lots of litter on the ground, you’d be twice as likely to...

Friday Bullets For The End of All Things Of Value

What happens if all value becomes valueless. If the stock market goes to zero. So far this year the S+P and the Dow Jones is about half way there. It is so important it is meaningless. Will there be an abstration? A separation...

Sun-Times pinching pennies, slicing board

The Sun-Times Media Group has moved to lighten its load—in the board room and on its ledgers—in the face of pressure from top shareholders agitating for change as their investments dwindled to pennies per share.

Former PM with manners of steel

Tom Switzer | November 20, 2008 Article from: The Australian WITH John Howard back in the public spotlight this week, the question arises: what kind of former prime minister will he be? Or will he miss the limelight, emulate...

Canwest's Bad Earnings News, Write-Downs

The Ten Network's major shareholder, Canwest Global Communications Corp has reported a fourth-quarter loss of & #36;C1.02 billion ( & #36;US834 million) after taking write-downs on its television business.The written-down was &...

Setting the record straight on Hearst

Kenneth Whyte's book on William Randolph Hearst's early years redeems the publishing magnate's reputation. Bruce DeMara Entertainment Reporter You might call Kenneth Whyte's book chronicling the early years of media tycoon...