RCMP prevented journalists, including freelance photographer Chad Hipolito on assignment for the Globe and Mail, from approaching a protest camp in the Fairy Creek old-growth forest on Vancouver Island as officers arrested protesters on Sept. 9, 2021. 

RCMP officers refused to allow a CBC vehicle through a checkpoint on a road leading to a protest site near Fairy Creek, forcing the crew to make a 14-kilometre round-trip hike to access the area. 

Halifax Regional Police threatened to arrest journalists and pushed a CTV video journalist covering the eviction of a homeless encampment. 

Halifax Regional Police threatened to arrest journalists and pushed a CTV video journalist covering the eviction of a homeless encampment. 

Halifax Regional Police threatened to arrest reporters and pushed a CTV video journalist covering the eviction of a homeless encampment. 

RCMP officers threatened to arrest and denied access to journalists Clay Nikiforuk and Aleisha Langmann, who were on assignment for Ricochet Media covering logging protests in Fairy Creek.

RCMP officers threatened to arrest and denied access to journalists Aleisha Langmann and Clay Nikiforuk, who were on assignment for Ricochet Media covering logging protests in Fairy Creek.

Toronto police and security denied access to reporters and threatened to arrest them if they didn’t leave the area during the eviction of a homeless encampment on July 21, 2021. 

City of Toronto corporate security arrested Chris Young, a photojournalist on assignment for the Canadian Press, on July 20, 2021.

Toronto police and City of Toronto security denied journalists access to a public park and forced them to wait outside a fenced area while police and city security guards evicted residents from a homeless encampment.