Ravelston Corporation
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Ravelston Corporation was once the power base of Conrad Black's and through this company controlling a media empire in the 1980s and 1990s. The Toronto-based private company had owned the British Daily Telegraph and Toronto's National Post newspapers. These papers were sold, mostly to Canwest Global and Ravelston has since filed for bankruptcy.
At one time Ravelston controlled 78 per cent of Hollinger Incorporated's stock with Black as CEO and chairman and David Radler as president.