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.
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.
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.
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.
RCMP held Ricochet Media reporter Kyle Darling at a checkpoint on May 22, 2021, “preventing him from covering events,” tweeted Ricochet Media.
Ricochet Media journalist Michael Simkin was denied access to the site of an RCMP raid on May 21, 2021, at Braden Main and 2000 Road, near Fairy Creek.
Capital Daily managing editor Jimmy Thomson was denied access to the Caycuse protest camp at the site of an imminent police raid on May 17, 2021.
While reporting for Ricochet Media, Kyle Darling and Michael Simkin were denied access to the Caycuse protest camp in old-growth forest on southern Vancouver Island, at the site of an imminent police raid on May 17, 2021.
While reporting for Ricochet Media, Michael Simkin and Kyle Darling were denied access to the Caycuse protest camp in old-growth forest on southern Vancouver Island, at the site of an imminent police raid on May 17, 2021.
Global News consumer affairs and investigative reporter Seán O’Shea was harassed while covering an April 16, 2021 demonstration at Huf Gym, a Mississauga business that frequently violated COVID-19 safety protocols.