The editors who were fired or resigned from the Canadian 
Medical Association Journal are starting their own free, 
online medical journal, Open Medicine. 
Open Medicine will be a peer-reviewed, independent open-
access journal and will not accept advertising from 
pharmaceutical or medical-device companies. The first issue 
is April 17. 
The CMAJ's former editor, Dr. John Hoey, and senior deputy 
editor, Anne Marie Todkill, were fired in  2006.
Academic freedom and independence from a professional 
organization like the Canadian Medical Association and 
freedom from advertising dollars from drug companies 
inspired the new jounral.