Will the honour staunch the bleeding?

The very story that apparently precipitated the firing of the two top editors at the Canadian Medical Association Journal has resulted in the publication receiving a nomination for the ultra prestigious Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service. The investigative piece was about Canadian pharmacies requiring private and personal information before selling woman the Plan B contraceptive pill. Undercover operatives were sent across the country sampling the use of a screening form created by the Canadian Pharmacists Association. Protests from the Canadian Pharmacists Association in advance of publication resulted in demands for modification of the story and one thing led to another.