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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.
Canada’s National Observer, along with several other news organizations, is planning to file a legal application requesting the RCMP allow journalists fair access to cover the Fairy Creek blockades happening on Vancouver Island.
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Canada’s National Observer’s next Conversations event this afternoon, Earth Day with
Elizabeth May, is one of the most hotly anticipated episodes yet.
But we have some more exciting news: after the interview with host and Observer founder and editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood, May will spend 15 minutes answering pre-recorded video questions from selected National Observer subscribers.
April 22nd 2021