Shoppers Drug Mart recently took the extraordinary step of removing Adbusters, one of Canada’s most influential homegrown publications, from all of its 1,300 stores nationwide.

Adbusters accepts no advertising or corporate sponsorships. Relying entirely on newsstand sales and subscriptions to stay afloat, the magazine was dealt a heavy blow — in a time, moreover, of economic beleaguerment and journalistic peril.

We’re calling on Galen Weston, Jr. (exec. chairman of Loblaws, Shoppers’ parent company) to put Adbusters back in Shoppers — and affirm that from now on, his company will stop sanitizing its magazine racks.