The Rebel to Rabble Review: Middle East media biases By iPolitics. Published on May 28, 2021 1:00am Indigenous protesters square off with RCMP officers at a checkpoint in northern B.C. in January 2020. (Jesse Winter/Star Metro) 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 frustrate and restrict media access to enforcement actions in isolated areas.”