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…
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.
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.
Edmonton police denied access to journalists covering the forced eviction of people living in an encampment in Dawson Park, near central Edmonton.
Edmonton police denied access to journalists covering the forced eviction of people living in an encampment in Dawson Park, near central Edmonton.
An OPP officer detained GuelphToday journalist Richard Vivian and seized his equipment while Vivian was reporting on a vehicle collision in Guelph, Ontario.
An Edmonton Transit Service policy requires media workers to ask permission before “reporting, filming or conducting business” on transit property.
The Israeli government denied media accreditation to Jesse Rosenfeld, a Canadian journalist working with Rolling Stone.
The Liberal Party of Canada denied Andrew Lawton, managing editor of far-right website True North, accreditation to cover its 2023 caucus retreat in London, Ont.
The Conservative Party of Canada denied accreditation to cover its annual convention to Nora Loreto, a journalist covering the convention for independent progressive media outlets The Maple and The Real News Network.