Our journalists are facing more harassment, threats for doing their jobs

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As vaccine-mandate protests rolled into Ottawa (and later other cities this past weekend), CBC took extra measures to ensure the safety of our journalists covering these events. 

We reduced our visibility and hired extra security. We identified fallback positions for our reporters and field crews. We conducted risk assessments for each deployment.

These precautions were warranted. We’ve seen multiple examples over the last several weeks of our teams and other Canadian media being verbally harassed, threatened and intimidated simply for