Journalists association challenging RCMP in court over media restrictions at Fairy Creek logging blockade
The Canadian Association of Journalists, along with a group of news organizations and press freedom groups, says it plans to take the RCMP to court over its decision to restrict media coverage at the Fairy Creek blockades.
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Posted: May 26, 2021 3:47 PM PT | Last Updated: May 26
Protesters in September 2020 at the so-called River Camp blocking the Granite Main road at kilometre seven north of Port Renfrew, B.C. (Kieran Oudshoorn/CBC)
The Canadian Association of Journalists, along with a group of news organizations and press freedom groups, says it plans to take the RCMP to court over its decision to restrict media coverage at the Fairy Creek blockades.
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Tsk, tsk. Trouble in paradise. Seems golf star Tiger Woods is very sheepish about his, ahem, dial-a-dalliance with a socialite diva. He’s also pretty quiet about his collision with a tree and spiraling fall from grace. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Still, I think Woods has lots of class. Two weeks ago, my colleague Arthur Williams wrote about how hard it is for some of us to wrap our heads around the notion of taking responsibility for our own actions. How true. So it is very refreshing to hear Woods doing just that.
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The Montreal Gazette’s Aaron Derfel has been nominated for yet another award for his investigation into the disaster at the Herron long-term care centre last year.
The Canadian Association of Journalists nominated Derfel for its annual awards that recognize the best in Canadian journalism, in the Written News category.
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Derfel’s work has already been nominated by the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec for its Judith-Jasmin Prize. It’s also up for a National Newspaper Award, a CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism and a Michener Award.
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Two Ottawa Citizen reporters who produced in-depth stories on the COVID-19 crisis have been nominated by the Canadian Association of Journalists for their work in the “written feature” category.
James Bagnall is nominated for his October 2020 report assessing the federal government’s response to the pandemic. “We have consistently remained one or two steps behind in our war to tame the novel coronavirus,” Bagnall concluded.
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“The two stories by James Bagnall and Bruce Deachman are fine examples of what Citizen journalists have tried to do throughout the pandemic: tell Ottawans what happened and why, and show the human faces behind the headlines,” said Nicole MacAdam, editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen.