Exploring Theme: "Media Protests and the Police"

A Mountie deployed to enforce an injunction obtained by timber firm Teal-Jones at Fairy Creek in 2021. Photo: submitted/file  APTN News: The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP (CRCC) says that the RCMP was unreasonable in setting up broad exclusion zones and checkpoints while enforcing a civil injunction covering the Fairy Creek area in British...

When journalists document the efforts of Indigenous land defenders, the RCMP obstructs and arrests them The Tyee: The Breach – When Innu, Inuit and settler Labradorians set up camp at the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in 2016 to stop the flooding of their lands, the historical record held a frightening list of potential scenarios that...

The Narwhal… Many of you may remember the moment: it was a chilly winter day in November 2021 when news broke that photojournalist Amber Bracken had been arrested by the RCMP while reporting for The Narwhal from Wet’suwet’en territory in northwestern B.C. Uproar ensued: international media attention, outrage from press freedom organizations and an all-hands-on-deck legal...