By Ashley Joannou A photographer and the news organization that sent her to cover an anti-pipeline protest in British Columbia are suing the RCMP for wrongful arrest in a case they say has implications for media across the country. Amber Bracken and The Narwhal are seeking a declaration that Bracken’s arrest in November 2021 at a tiny cabin at a protest camp against the Coast GasLink pipeline in northwestern B.C. was unlawful. The Narwhal’s acting editor-in-chief Carol Linnitt said in a statement before the trial started in Vancouver on Monday that injunction zones like the one at the protest area allow the RCMP alone to “determine what journalism is, who performs it, where and how.” “Whatever form of freedom of press we can say we have in this country will…
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