When I began work at Conrad Black’s National Post in 1998, one of my assigned tasks was to occasionally drive home my boss, editorial-board chief John O’Sullivan, to his Toronto quarters — which happened to be in Conrad Black’s unusually large house. I was then driving a nine-year-old Volkswagen Golf whose fan belt made a high-pitched shrieking noise in cold weather. And the footmen of the Black estate could not usher me off the property fast enough once I’d discharged my passenger.
A man who lives a pampered life never quite knows how he’ll react when he feels himself to be at mortal risk. My own reaction in that moment was to cup one hand under my crotch and the other under my throat. Black, meanwhile, walked toward me and said, in a sort of kindergarten sing-song style directed at the dogs, “Oh look, it’s my friend Jon. Yesssss … my friend. Hello, Jon. Welcome to our home. Jon is our friend. We like Jon.
To someone who lives outside Canada, it is difficult to explain the level of anti-Black hatred that has existed in some quarters of this country. The animus has little to do with the actual criminal case against Black, which was based on white-collar charges that few Canadians ever fully understood.
I might even say, maddeningly. Until late 2014, I served as the editor of Black’s weekly column on the National Post opinion pages, in some cases receiving his articles through the email system run by the U.S. prison system. No matter what the ostensible subject of Black’s column might have been — Quebec separatism, the American Revolutionary War, global warming — he usually would tuck in three or four paragraphs proclaiming his innocence, often under the most absurd editorial pretexts.
The verdict from the court of law was GUILTY! How credible is a pardon received from Trump, ZERO.
Black was convicted. He won nothing.
This is lame. Even for the national Post.
More NP tripe. Won what,a nod from an egotistical narcissistic friend who also believes hes above the law. Thank god Black isnt a Canadian !! Id be really embarrassed!!
Wow, a pardonned convicted criminal! You have a defective sense of justice.
But is no different from when he was convicted
What? ridicule
Jonathan Kay: Conrad Black sucked up to the most corrupt President in the history of North America, got bailed out. Rich people taking care of each other.
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What did he win? Everyone still absolutely loathes him and his legacy is rent.
Says the newspaper he owns.
Still a crook
Who says crime doesn’t pay? Whoever it was, they obviously weren’t rich with powerful friends.
No bias from the National Post eh? What a joke
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