Tue Mar 29, 2022 – 4:22 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Records show that the Canadian Association of Journalists breached its own ethics guidelines while reporting on a 2020 pipeline protest.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) refused to correct misleading statements that accused police responding to the 2020 pipeline protests of illegal conduct.
The CAJ accused police of unlawfully arresting two freelance journalists reporting for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the environmental advocacy site The Narwhal who were covering the 2020 pipeline protest. After the accusation, the Department of Public Safety issued a memo stating that the arrests made by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) were carried out lawfully in accordance with a court order, and the coverage by the media was selective and left out key facts.
“On November 25, a journalist released a video showing the arrests,” said the department’s memo titled Coastal GasLink Pipeline Protests. “However, the video does not show what occurred preceding RCMP members’ breach of the structures.”
“RCMP officers read the injunction at each structure and made several calls over the course of more than an hour for occupants to exit the structure,” staff wrote. “The
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