Toronto police and City of Toronto security denied journalists access to a public park and forced them to wait outside a fenced area while police and city security guards evicted residents from a homeless encampment.
Jeremy Appel, a reporter with The Sprawl, was denied access to a July 7, 2021 news conference held by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Calgary.
The RCMP arrested and removed a protester during demonstrations against old-growth logging in the forest near Fairy Creek, B.C., after telling journalists to leave the area and that enforcement had ended for the day.
Ricochet Media reporters Jerome Turner and Michael Simkin were denied access to an area where RCMP were conducting enforcement of the Fairy Creek demonstrations on May 27, 2021.
Ricochet Media reporters Michael Simkin and Jerome Turner were denied access to an area where RCMP were conducting enforcement of the Fairy Creek demonstrations on May 27, 2021.
RCMP delayed press entry to a protest site near Port Renfrew, B.C. on May 26, 2021, where media later learned that officers were arresting protesters.
BC RCMP officers threatened to arrest media workers including Global News journalist Paul Johnson, and denied them access to an area where police expected to arrest people protesting old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island.
A last-minute notice from the RCMP on changes to where enforcement of the Fairy Creek protests was being carried out prevented effective media coverage on May 25, 2021.
Ricochet Media journalist Michael Simkin was temporarily denied access to an area where an RCMP raid was taking place at the Caycuse camp near Honeymoon Bay, B.C., on May 25, 2021.
Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper journalist Melissa Renwick was temporarily denied access to an area where an RCMP raid was taking place at the Caycuse camp near Honeymoon Bay, B.C., on May 25, 2021.