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Friday, May 4, 2012

Thomas Walkom: Welcome back Conrad Black. Surely we don’t deserve you (in The Toronto Star)

Full article: Canada News: Walkom: Welcome back Conrad Black. Surely we don’t deserve you.

The Star's Thomas Walkom compares the treatment of Lord Black of Crossharbour, who renounced his Canadian citizenship to become a British lord, and was given a Temporary Residence Permit before he was even out of prison, with that of Gary Freeman, who is not allowed back into Canada to see his wife and family, supposedly because he "served 30 days in jail in the U.S. four years ago for wounding a Chicago police officer under disputed circumstances in the ’60s."

FYI, Crossharbour is a Docklands Light Railway station, west of Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs in east London. It is between Mudchute and South Quay stations - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossharbour_DLR_station.