CAJ going to court to defend principle of journalistic independence at risk in Morrisseau art fraud case
Monique Durette2023-04-27T15:39:04-04:00TORONTO, ON., Apr. 27, 2023 /CNW/ - The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) is going to court to oppose an unreasonable police attempt to force a Toronto filmmaker to turn over his interviews and source material. In March, the CAJ publicly condemned the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)’s demand that Jamie Kastner hand over the raw footage of 17 interviews he conducted while preparing his TVO documentary “There Are No Fakes.” “In democracies like Canada, journalists don’t work for the police,” said CAJ president Brent Jolly. “If the OPP succeeds in getting this raw footage, it will make it harder for [...]