INCIDENTS

Incidents

RCMP restrict media workers’ access as arrests made at Fairy Creek

RCMP prevented journalists, including freelance photographer Chad Hipolito on assignment for the Globe and Mail, from approaching a protest camp in the Fairy Creek old-growth forest on Vancouver Island as officers arrested protesters on Sept. 9, 2021. 

RCMP deny CBC crew vehicle access to Fairy Creek protest site

RCMP officers refused to allow a CBC vehicle through a checkpoint on a road leading to a protest site near Fairy Creek, forcing the crew to make a 14-kilometre round-trip hike to access the area. 

RCMP deny access, threaten to arrest Ricochet journalists

RCMP officers threatened to arrest and denied access to journalists Aleisha Langmann and Clay Nikiforuk, who were on assignment for Ricochet Media covering logging protests in Fairy Creek.

RCMP deny access, threaten to arrest Ricochet journalists 

RCMP officers threatened to arrest and denied access to journalists Clay Nikiforuk and Aleisha Langmann, who were on assignment for Ricochet Media covering logging protests in Fairy Creek.

Photojournalist detained while covering encampment clearing in Toronto’s Alexandra Park

City of Toronto corporate security arrested Chris Young, a photojournalist on assignment for the Canadian Press, on July 20, 2021.

Toronto Police and City of Toronto security deny access to journalists covering Alexandra Park encampment eviction

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. 

RCMP officer falsely claims journalist Brandi Morin lied to police

An RCMP officer falsely claimed in an affidavit that journalist Brandi Morin had lied to police while on assignment covering protests at Fairy Creek.

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.

RCMP makes arrests at Fairy Creek after telling media enforcement was over for the day

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 denied access to RCMP enforcement site at Fairy Creek protests

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.