‘Absolutely shameful’: RCMP conduct, arrest of journalists in spotlight as Wet’suwet’en opposition to pipeline flares up

The Canadian Association of Journalists and 40 other news organizations and press freedom groups have written to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino asking for him to drop the charges against two journalists arrested and subsequently released following a raid on an anti-pipeline camp earlier this month in B.C.

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, left, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller, and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino. According to a B.C. RCMP spokesperson, safety was a primary focus prompting the RCMP action, including the camp workers who were nearing the end of their essential supplies.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE AND MATT HORWOOD

November 29, 2021

The executive editor of one media organization that has been covering the RCMP’s raid of a pipeline opposition site in northwestern B.C. says charges should not have been brought against two journalists who were incarcerated while reporting on the Indigenous land defen...

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