Why does nobody talk about Canada's secret news blackout on pipeline protests?

I spent 3 weeks trying to find any Canadian news coverage about the 2023 pipeline standoff in northern BC. Every major outlet just had brief mentions buried on page 12. Turns out the government quietly asked editors to downplay it to avoid 'civil unrest.' I eventually found one blog from a retired journalist in Vancouver that laid it all out. The mainstream silence was loud - it took 22 days and 5 different search engines to piece together what really happened there. Has anyone else run into this kind of media wall in other countries?

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blair_allen27d ago

lol sounds about right for canada honestly. they love pretending everything is polite and peaceful while quietly sweeping stuff under the rug. guess free press has limits when it makes the government look bad.

riverg7527d ago

My buddy moved up there for work a few years back and he got a speeding ticket in some tiny town in Ontario. Nothing crazy, just a few over. He tried to talk to the cop about it and the guy just shrugged and wrote him up anyway. Later he found out the town basically lives off those tickets, like it's their main source of income. So much for that polite stereotype, huh.