CMA Journal editors fired

Canada doesn't get noticed much by the New York Times, but oh boy did it catch their attention with the firing of the two top editors of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. On Monday, the CMA dismissed Dr. John Hoey, the editor and Anne Marie Todkill, its senior deputy editor.

Graham Morris, the president of CMA Media, denied that the firings had anything to do with a dispute late last year surrounding an article about difficulties that Canadian women experienced in purchasing Plan B, a nonprescription morning-after birth control pill. But a couple of highly placed members of the editorial board said there was no other conclusion to be reached.

Here is the story as it appears in today's Globe and Mail.