After nearly two years of excluding Ricochet reporter Jon Thompson from media communications on the grounds that a national outlet can't do local journalism, Thunder Bay police reversed course following a closed-door oversight meeting and public pressure.
BREAKING: Thunder Bay police retaliate against award-winning journalist, and Canadaland alum, Jon Thompson.
Force refuses to send official communications to journalist who won Canadian Screen Award for exposing misconduct in their department.
“Flies in the face of basic transparency,” says CAJ president.
If you want to help Jon out, please share this widely. I know many of you here are very fond of him. We’ve spent two years trying to fix this quietly. Nothing has worked. We had no choice but to go public.
Frustrations boil over between police chief, First Nations leaders following discovery of four bodies in two weeks.
Jon Thompson reports from Thunder Bay.
Finance minister tells us yes, but our ATI requests show there’s no plan for how to do both — and reveal significant unpublished emissions estimates. Justin Brake reports from St. John’s.
Ethan from Ricochet here. Sharing this story because former Canadaland journalist Jon Thompson worked on the Canadaland coverage of Thunder Bay that led up to this news.
Today in a Thunder Bay court, officer Mike Dimini (featured in the final episode of the Crave Thunder Bay docuseries) was sentenced to three years in prison. It’s rare that a police officer is sentenced to hard time in Canada, but the judge said he wanted the sentence to serve as a ‘deterrent.’
Jon Thompson was there, and filed this report.