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Category / Incidents / Equipment search/seizure/damage

  • December 20, 2023
    Arrest/criminal charge

    OPP detain and seize equipment from Guelph journalist

    An OPP officer detained GuelphToday journalist Richard Vivian and seized his equipment while Vivian was reporting on a vehicle collision in Guelph, Ontario.

  • November 5, 2023

    Radio-Canada building vandalized

    During a demonstration against the conflict in Gaza, protesters splashed red paint and wrote graffiti on the Radio-Canada building in Montreal. 

  • October 17, 2022

    TVA vehicles damaged in Quebec City

    Seven vehicles owned by TVA were damaged overnight between Oct. 17 and Oct. 18 , 2022. 

  • November 19, 2021
    Arrest/criminal charge

    RCMP arrest and detain photojournalist and documentary filmmaker during pipeline protest on Wet’suwet’en territory

    RCMP officers arrested and detained photojournalist Amber Bracken and documentary filmmaker Michael Toledano during a land rights protest on Wet’suwet’en territory.

  • November 19, 2021
    Arrest/criminal charge

    RCMP arrest and detain documentary filmmaker and photojournalist during pipeline protest on Wet’suwet’en territory

    RCMP officers arrested and detained documentary filmmaker Michael Toledano and photojournalist Amber Bracken during a land rights protest on Wet’suwet’en territory.

  • August 10, 2021
    Arrest/criminal charge

    Victoria Buzz photographer arrested at Fairy Creek blockades

    RCMP officers arrested photojournalist Colin Smith, who was on assignment for Victoria Buzz covering protests against old-growth logging near Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island on Aug. 10, 2021.

  • June 22, 2021
    Arrest/criminal charge

    Photojournalist detained while covering police clearing encampments in Toronto park Trinity Bellwoods

    Toronto Police detained and confiscated the equipment of photojournalist Ian Willms while he was covering the eviction of people living in an encampment in Trinity Bellwoods Park.

  • January 6, 2021

    TVA vehicles damaged in Quebec City

    The windows of four marked TVA vehicles parked at the station’s Sherbrooke newsroom were smashed overnight between Jan. 6 and Jan. 7 2021, reported Radio-Canada. 

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