Word: crossharbour
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...charges, Black, through his Hollinger empire, controlled one of Canada's two national newspapers, a top newsmagazine and more than 60% of the country's community newspapers. He gave up his Canadian citizenship in 2001 to accept a peerage in the British House of Lords, becoming Lord Black of Crossharbour, but he was already the equivalent of Canadian royalty. More outspoken, more opinionated and certainly far richer than the typical Canuck, he seemed to enjoying being in the newspapers almost as much as he did publishing them...
...Daily Telegraph and more than 140 other newspapers worldwide often writes letters to his own publications taking potshots at opponents. Two years ago, he even renounced his Canadian citizenship in a public battle with Prime Minister Jean Chretien in order to become a British peer, Lord Black of Crossharbour. As biographer Peter C. Newman put it, "He has the body language of a puma in heat...
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