Society gossip columnist Gillian Cosgrove has been dropped by the National Post after a Nov. 22 column on Gov.-Gen. Adrienne Clarkson.

Since I don't wish to repeat potentially libelous statements, I won't say what that column was about.

Here is the Globe and Mail's take:

The National Post has dropped columnist Gillian Cosgrove after she wrote a controversial article containing, in the paper's own words, "a number of fundamental errors and intentional misrepresentations," according to people familiar with the matter.

Sources said the newspaper decided this week to end its relationship with Ms. Cosgrove, who had been writing a regular society-gossip column on a freelance basis.

The item in question, published Nov. 22, contained allegations regarding Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson.

The paper issued a full-on apology two days later. It has stripped the offending article from its databases.

Interestingly, it seems to have been pulled from CBC's database too.

A story about l'affaire Cosgrove was posted to the CBC Arts site and the URL was circulated on CAJ-L on Nov. 24. Here it is:

Click on it. Let me know what happens.

But it appears to me that CBC hustled that libelous little yarn out of its own archive.