A small campaign has blossomed on Facebook over the past few hours as freelance writers press The Globe and Mail to pay the writers of their popular Facts & Arguments essay. In the comments section of a Facebook post celebrating the essay's 25th anniversary writers have been complaining that the paper does not offer any compensation for accepted submissions.

Toronto writer and editor Jaclyn Law started the string of comments, asking simply "Why not pay the writers?"

The post has since had over a dozen more comments, including one from Canadian journalist, journalism instructor, and former Editor-in-Chief of Chatelaine magazine Kim Pittaway, who notes that writers used to be paid for the Facts & Arguments column.

"When F&A launched, I was actually paid $200 or $250 for an essay. Then it dropped to $100. Then it dropped to nothing. Hey Globe and Mail, as Jaclyn Law says, how about paying the writers?" says Pittaway's comment.

When contacted via Facebook for further comment, Law said "writers should be paid for their work, even if they aren't professionals."