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TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) – On October 5, 1999, police arrested three journalists who were reporting on what a fellow media member characterized as a “controversial story of intense public interest.” Police seized video and still camera film from the press, and criminally charged them.
“Are we in East Timor? Pakistan? China? No, all this took place on an otherwise ho-hum Friday morning right here in Toronto the Good,” Toronto Sun columnist Meed Ward wrote of the incident.
Pro-life activist Linda Gibbons had entered a no-protest zone outside the Scots abortuary in Toronto. Freelance journalist Sue Careless, LifeSite co-founder Steve Jalsevac, on assignment for LifeSite, and Gordon Truscott, who was writing a book on Linda’s life, were all handcuffed and taken into police custody despite repeatedly informing the officers that they were official media.
The charges of obstruction, which at the time were decried by the Canadian Church Press and the Periodical Writers Association of Canada concerned about freedom
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