From the Vault
Toronto Life has kept a keen eye on the triumphs and travails of Conrad Black. Here, a selection of articles from over the years
Love Story by Patricia Best (January, 1993)
Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel, the media tycoon and the right-wing columnist, seem made for each other. Can any marriage tolerate two such outsize personalities?
From the diary of Conrad Moffat Black (as imagined by Michael Posner) by Michael Posner (January, 1999)
Black and Whyte and Read All Over by David Hayes (December, 1999)
With close to 300,000 readers across the country, the loud, opinionated, irreverent National Post has outperformed all expectations. But is there enough subsance underneath all that style to sustain its success?
Praise the Lord by Gillian Grace (January, 2007)
Black raves about his controversial biography
Criminal Minds by Jack Batten (April, 2007)
The rich and powerful know what to do when they get into trouble with the law: hire a Greenspan. Brian made his name defending Alan Eagleson. His older brother, Eddie—counsel to Gerald Regan, Karlheinz Schreiber and Garth Drabinsky— this month defends Conrad Black in the biggest case of his career. A portrait of the city’s most sought-after attorneys
House of Lord by Mike Miner (April, 2007)
Even before Conrad Moffat Black got his well-manicured hands on it, 10 Toronto Street was a monument to patrician money and prestige
Sideshow Barb by Douglas Bell (April, 2007)
Barbara Amiel’s journalism is rife with veiled references to her husband’s plight, so much so that reading her has become something of a spectator sport. It’s a win-win situation for Maclean’s. The columnist as curiosity
