Lawyers for the RCMP and logging company Teal-Jones were at the hearing, arguing the media restriction during Fairy Creek arrests was fair. Photo by Will O Connell
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After a two-day hearing outlining the ways RCMP have restricted media access at Vancouver Island’s Fairy Creek blockades, a B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of journalists.
The case was brought forward by a coalition of journalism organizations, including
Canada’s National Observer. The coalition’s lawyer on the case, Sean Hern, successfully argued for a clause to be inserted in April’s B.C. Supreme Court injunction barring the RCMP from interfering with media access at Fairy Creek. The area, around Port Renfrew, B.C., has been sprinkled with blockades set up to oppose old-growth logging since August 2020, in the traditional territory of the Ditidaht and Pacheedaht First Nations.
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Amid ongoing protests of an old-growth logging operation on Vancouver Island,
Ricochet Mediahas joined a new legal push to have the British Columbia Supreme Court force the RCMP to “provide journalists with reasonable access” to the police pushback outside Port Renfrew.
“Parties to the application include the Canadian Association of Journalists, Ricochet Media, Capital Daily Victoria, The Narwhal, Canada’s National Observer, APTN, The Discourse, IndigiNews, and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression,” the Montreal outlet notes. It’s an “unprecedented collective action on behalf of the Canadian news industry,“ which, they contend, “is the culmination of eight years of the national police force using the same playbook to frus