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Conrad Black: Prison

Canada Dept: MIAMI - Much has changed since the day he went to prison in 2008, but one thing has stayed the same: the name Conrad Black still elicits a strong reaction in Canada, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "In 2001, Canada wasn't good enough for Conrad Black," Calgary resident Paul Hanson wrote in a recent letter to the Globe and Mail and much has changed since the day he went to prison in 2008, but one thing has stayed the same: the name Conrad Black still elicits a strong reaction in Canada. Black is shown arriving at federal court in Chicago, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Charles Rex Arobasgt Today, as the disgraced former media baron permanently reclaims his freedom from a south Florida prison, the country whose citizenship Black famously renounced more than a decade ago in order to accept a British peerage appears divided over his anticipated return. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.