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🧵Montreal police want to charge a journalist with criminal mischief for covering a pro-Palestinian sit at a downtown bank. The odds of them convicting a journalist for doing journalism are slim. So why bother charging her?
'Intimidation' says the Canadian Association of Journalists
therover.ca/police-seek-cr…
On Monday, our journalist Savanna was arrested by the Police Montréal while doing her job.
Valérie Plante and @FBonnardelCAQ , it’s time to send a clear message that journalists will not be intimidated or restricted while working in the public interest.
More: cutvmontreal.org/2024/04/17/cut…
Congrats! Natasha O'Neill is heading back to local news and stoked about it. Local news is the heart of our communities.
'The National Defence public affairs branch did not explain why it provided false information to this newspaper.'
This quote from this Ottawa Citizen story is in some ways more important than the story:
Journalists are constantly fighting for basic transparency from government
MediaPolicy.ca Breathtaking hypocrisy.
On the one hand they lobbied for legislation to enforce cancon rules on their competition.
On the other hand they don’t believe in the cause themselves and want to be exempt from those regulations.