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Category / Incidents / 2022 / Chilling statement in 2022

  • 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. 

  • July 7, 2022
    Chilling statement

    MP Pierre Poilievre posts tweet calling Global News a “Liberal mouthpiece” 

    Pierre Poilievre, then a federal Conservative Party leadership candidate, tweeted a statement describing Global News as a “Liberal mouthpiece,” in response to questions from Global News journalist Rachel Gilmore. 

  • May 11, 2022
    Denial of access

    Vancouver School Board restricts student journalism

    A Vancouver School Board policy adopted in May 2022 appears to restrict some of the activities of student newspapers in the district. 

  • March 4, 2022
    Chilling statement

    Russian ‘fake news’ law forces international media organizations to stop reporting

    Media organizations including the CBC, BBC, CNN and Bloomberg were forced to pause reporting in Russia after a new law threatened to jail anyone publishing what the government described as “false information” about the war in Ukraine. 

  • February 24, 2022
    Denial of access

    Edmonton police revoke press credentials of The Progress Report

    The Edmonton Police Service refused to give The Progress Report access to an online press conference on Feb. 24, 2022 and later revoked the publication’s press credentials. 

  • February 19, 2022
    Chilling statement

    Police threaten to arrest Global News journalist

    Police officers in Ottawa told Global News journalist Mercedes Stephenson to leave an area near Parliament Hill and threatened to arrest her. 

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