Vancouver police denied access to journalists covering the eviction of people living in an encampment at Hastings St. and Main St.

Vancouver police denied access to journalists covering the eviction of people living in an encampment at Hastings St. and Main St.

A Montreal police officer grabbed and dragged Ricochet Media’sjournalist Ethan Cox while denying him access to a designated media area near a building fire, the publication editor and journalist said. 

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. 

A Montreal police media relations officer refused to answer an emailed request from journalist Christopher Curtis, because the officer didn’t consider his outlet The Rover to be a “professional” media organization. 

Canadaland news editor Jonathan Goldsbie was denied accreditation to an Ontario Progressive Conservative party election night event.

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

The Vancouver School Board denied a journalist from student newspaper The Griffins’ Nest access to a public meeting.

Humber journalism students Kyshia Osei and Makayla Verbruggen were confronted by campus security after a Starbucks employee reported that the two were filming in a public lobby, reported Humber News on April 14, 2022. 

Humber journalism students Makayla Verbruggen and Kyshia Osei were confronted by campus security after a Starbucks employee reported that the two were filming in a public lobby, reported Humber News on April 14, 2022.