INCIDENTS

Incidents

Sitansisk First Nation security interferes with Radio-Canada interview

A Sitansisk First Nation security officer and an unidentified man interrupted a Radio-Canada interview, asking the journalist to leave and telling the interviewee to stop speaking to the journalist. 

Conservative party denies convention accreditation to The Breach

The Conservative Party of Canada denied accreditation to cover its annual convention to independent progressive media outlet The Breach. 

Conservative party denies convention accreditation to Pivot

The Conservative Party of Canada denied accreditation to cover its annual convention to independent progressive media outlet Pivot. 

RCMP officers deny access to Ricochet journalists

An RCMP officer denied access to journalists covering a police raid on an anti-logging protest camp on southern Vancouver Island. 

RCMP officers threaten to arrest Ricochet journalist

An RCMP officer threatened to arrest Ricochet journalist Brandi Morin, who was covering a police raid on an anti-logging protest camp on southern Vancouver Island. 

Chilling statements by HonestReporting Canada in August 2023

In August 2023, HonestReporting Canada published at least one campaign which named individual media workers.

Rama First Nation police officer investigated over alleged threat to APTN journalist

The Rama First Nation police service is investigating an officer for her emails to an APTN journalist who had covered her partner’s alleged assault of a person in custody. 

A history of ‘media exclusion zones’

How injunctions became synonymous with police-driven crackdowns on press freedom in Canada

Chilling statements by HonestReporting Canada in June 2023

In June 2023, HonestReporting Canada published at least three campaigns which named at least two individual media workers.

Chilling statements by HonestReporting Canada in June 2023

In July 2023, HonestReporting Canada published at least nine campaigns which named at least five individual media workers or newsrooms.