Always enjoyed Lord Black on Oakley's show, until he was dumped, to be replaced by the babbling billionaire, Frank Stronach.  Mercifully, he is long gone, as well.  Even old regular Ernie Eves seems to have been taken to the train station.  Tom's still around, but he pays his way.

Asking Lord tubby to speak at a conference about his successes and failures in the newspaper industry would have been like asking the late William Pickton to give a talk about his successes and failures as a pig farmer.

 

Any day is enriched when one is not subjected to a Conrad Black bloviation ..

One thing to keep in mind about Black.  Although he is, I believe, an inherently evil person he also suffers from mental illness.
He has admitted to being clinically depressive, and once told his good friend, CBC reporter Brian Stewart, that he had contemplated suicide.
So you are not dealing with a healthy-minded person with Black.
This is not to disparage anyone who suffers mental illness.
But you can be mentally ill, and not a bad person.
Black's an a@##@$hole.

 
 

Herr Black's philosophy with the National Post was not to dictate ideology directly to the writers on his paper, but to delegate his wishes to like-minded editors who hired uneducated muckrakers and goose-stepping columnists. There were shiny metal newspaper boxes everywhere, and they saw business for a while.

After that while the pulp wouldn't move. Stores stopped carrying it because no sales because it was a mouldering pile of boozy dogshit. He observed the results and weeded out those he thought were the undesirables.

Then he sold it off because his judgement was just as much a mouldering pile of boozy dogshit as his creation. That was a dickpunch (though if it was clinically examined it was probably milder than a lady's monthly shedding of uterine lining). The criminal stuff he was dinged with likely didn't help. Ballpunch. Wah.

Then he returned to it cap in hand begging for a column. And they gave it to him because dogshit knows dogshit. 

No mercy. As the Lord would appreciate.

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Cripes. What were they thinking? What could he possibly bring to their little event that could be the least bit thoughtful and relevant?   

C. Black frequently points out, thoughtfully and relevantly, in his regular column in the Saturday National Post that if there are bodies, there is no evidence that they were murder victims.   This appears to be a cheap stunt, staged & scripted by certain broadcasters
 

Originally there was no mention of mass graves, just unmarked graves.   The term mass graves came from sloppy reporting and the media allowed it to get out of control, feeding a conspiracy echo chamber.     Black is tilting at windmills as are most who make those comments.

Give this a read.     

We fact-checked residential school denialists and debunked their ‘mass grave hoax’ theory

Lol