Toronto Life to put up special Conrad Black trial site

We are awaiting the launch of the special Toronto Life website about Conrad Black's trial in Chicago (jury selection has started; the expected three-month trial kicks off next week). The magazine has commissioned Douglas Bell to sort through all the coverage and provide the nuggets and apparently readers will be able to access a blow-by-blow (some of it with a tongue-in-cheek lightheartedness) of the trial and will even have the ability, based on their reading, to vote on their perception of how it will all end (guilty or not). There will be guest columnists like pre-eminent spin doctor Patrick Gossage and lawyer Alan Gold. Editor John Macfarlane told Masthead magazine (sub req'd) that putting up the site was a natural:

I find him probably the most fascinating person I’ve ever known in this jurisdiction, in this country, in this city…

“The arc of his career is like nothing that any of us has ever seen before, and are unlikely to see it again. Because he’s such a Shakespearean figure, he’s so larger than life, because of what he’s aspired to do, because of the way he’s aspired to live, because of the way he comports himself. I mean, he’s like something out of the pages of fiction, and now he’s at this most dramatic juncture of his life, how could we not be interested? You’d have to be emotionally dead not to find this compelling.”