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Category / Incidents / 2022

  • August 15, 2023
    Denial of access

    RCMP officers deny access to Ricochet journalists

    An RCMP officer denied access to journalists covering a police raid on an anti-logging protest camp on southern Vancouver Island. 

  • December 2, 2022
    Denial of access

    New Brunswick RCMP threaten Telegraph-Journal reporter with arrest

    RCMP officers prevented a journalist with the Telegraph-Journal from photographing a house fire on the Kingston Peninsula in N.B and said the journalist could be arrested. 

  • November 28, 2022
    Subpoena/legal order

    Ontario Provincial Police order documentary filmmaker to turn over footage

    Ontario Provincial Police obtained a court order to force filmmaker Jamie Kastner to provide complete raw footage of 17 interviews filmed for a TVO documentary about art forgery.  Police asked Kastner for the footage; when he refused, they obtained a court order in November 2022, and Kastner was forced to hand it over in March…

  • November 2, 2022
    Other

    CBC closes Beijing bureau after Chinese government refuses journalist visa

    CBC/Radio-Canada closed its Beijing bureau after the Chinese government refused to provide a journalist visa for the broadcaster’s new China correspondent. 

  • October 17, 2022

    TVA vehicles damaged in Quebec City

    Seven vehicles owned by TVA were damaged overnight between Oct. 17 and Oct. 18 , 2022. 

  • August 25, 2022
    Intimidation/harassment

    TVA journalist receives harassment after cell number published on Facebook

    TVA journalist Yves Poirier received harassing messages after someone published his cell phone number on Facebook. 

  • August 16, 2022
    Physical attack

    Man threatens to punch CTV Montreal journalist

    A man who was filmed shouting racist insults at a Montreal family threatened to punch CTV Montreal journalist Stéphane Giroux, who was reporting on the story. 

  • August 5, 2022
    Other

    Russia bans more Canadian media workers from the country, following prior sanctions

    Media workers were among 62 Canadians sanctioned by the Russian government and banned indefinitely from entering the country. 

  • July 27, 2022
    Physical attack

    CTV staff attacked outside convoy protest organizer’s bail hearing

    A CTV camera operator and CTV journalist Glen McGregor were shoved in a scrum outside a bail hearing in Ottawa for convoy protest organizer Tamara Lich.

  • July 27, 2022
    Physical attack

    CTV staff attacked outside convoy protest organizer’s bail hearing

    CTV journalist Glen McGregor and a CTV camera operator were shoved in a scrum outside a bail hearing in Ottawa for convoy protest organizer Tamara Lich.

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