INCIDENTS

Incidents

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. 

RCMP delay media entry to raid site at Fairy Creek protests

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. 

B.C. RCMP deny access to journalists at Fairy Creek

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.

RCMP temporarily deny Ha-Shilth-Sa journalist access to cover a raid at Fairy Creek

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. 

Last-minute RCMP notice on changes to enforcement area prevents media coverage at Fairy Creek demonstrations

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 temporarily deny Ricochet Media journalist access to cover a raid at Fairy Creek

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. 

Ricochet Media journalist held at RCMP checkpoint

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 denied access to an RCMP raid site

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 editor refused access to exclusion zone at Fairy Creek protests

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. 

Ricochet Media reporters denied entry to exclusion zone at Fairy Creek protests

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.