CANADIAN SCANDAL UPDATE:

Mr. Justice John Gomery has partially removed a ban on the volatile testimony from ad executive Jean Brault at the sponsorship inquiry.

However, the judge overseeing the sponsorship probe ruled Thursday that certain aspects of testimony provided by ad executive Jean Brault to the sponsorship inquiry can not be reported by the media.

“It is in the public interest that this evidence with few exceptions be made available to the public,” Judge Gomery said.

I think you’ll see some interesting discussion here shortly. I think that the blogosphere — and especially Ed Morrissey, as this NYT story illustrates — deserves some credit for this.

More here. And much more, here.

UPDATE: And Canadian news-blogger Brian Neale is all over this story.