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Category / Incidents / 2024 / Denial of access in 2024

  • October 3, 2024
    Denial of access

    Canadian Architect journalist denied access to Ontario government press briefing 

    A journalist with Canadian Architect magazine was denied access to an Ontario government technical briefing on a controversial project to redevelop Ontario Place, a waterfront public property in Toronto. 

  • October 3, 2024
    Denial of access

    Spacing journalist denied access to Ontario government press briefing 

    A journalist with Spacing magazine was denied access to an Ontario government technical briefing on a controversial project to redevelop Ontario Place, a waterfront public property in Toronto. 

  • August 16, 2024
    Denial of access

    Media workers denied access to town of Jasper to cover wildfire

    On the day residents were allowed to return to Jasper, Alta. after a wildfire burned part of the town, media workers were again denied access and held at an RCMP checkpoint outside the town.  With a few exceptions, media workers were denied access to Jasper for most of three weeks in July and August 2024. …

  • July 26, 2024
    Denial of access

    Media workers denied access to town of Jasper to cover wildfire

    Media workers were denied access to Jasper, Alta. to cover the aftermath of a wildfire on July 26, 2024, with just two outlets permitted to send journalists on a restricted media tour of the town. Officials with Parks Canada organized a second media tour with more journalists allowed to join on July 28. With a…

  • July 25, 2024
    Denial of access

    Media, including Globe and Mail, denied access to town of Jasper to cover wildfire

    Media workers, including Globe and Mail photojournalist Gavin John, were prevented from accessing Jasper, Alta. to cover a wildfire on July 25, 2024.  With a few exceptions, media workers were denied access to Jasper for most of three weeks in July and August 2024.  The Globe and Mail’s editorial board called the decision to ban…

  • July 25, 2024
    Denial of access

    Media, including CityNews, denied access to town of Jasper to cover wildfire

    Media workers, including CityNews journalist Sean Amato, were prevented from accessing Jasper, Alta. to cover a wildfire on July 25, 2024.  With a few exceptions, media workers were denied access to Jasper for most of three weeks in July and August 2024.  A spokesperson for Parks Canada told J-Source that journalists were initially barred from…

  • July 23, 2024
    Denial of access

    Montreal police threaten to arrest Pivot journalist

    A Montreal police officer threatened to arrest Oona Barrett, a video journalist with Pivot, as she was covering an environmentalist demonstration on a road near the Montreal airport. 

  • January 10, 2024
    Arrest/criminal charge

    Edmonton police arrest Ricochet journalist during encampment eviction

    Edmonton police officers arrested Ricochet journalist Brandi Morin while she was reporting on the forced eviction of people, many of them Indigenous, living in an encampment in a vacant lot east of the city’s downtown. 

  • January 7, 2024
    Denial of access

    Edmonton police deny access to journalists covering encampment eviction

    Edmonton police denied access to journalists covering the forced eviction of people living in an encampment in Dawson Park, near central Edmonton. 

  • January 7, 2024
    Denial of access

    Edmonton police deny access to journalists covering encampment eviction

    Edmonton police denied access to journalists covering the forced eviction of people living in an encampment in Dawson Park, near central Edmonton. 

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