There is possibly no single body worse suited to deciding who is and is not a journalist than the RCMP. I would trust nine strangers at a bar to know what a journalist does, and why, before I trusted the RCMP with its long track record of interfering with us.
No better group to entrust a journalists credibility than a large community of independent group of trained, experienced and accredited journalists.
Police are basically just bull dogs with blinders that only see threats and their only response to threats is to attack or kill.
Hammer, nail.
I have one friend who is a doctor and he often reminded me that if I don’t need to go to a hospital … don’t
One of the reasons he said this was to tell me that if anyone ever asks a surgeon how to solve a medical problem … they’d recommend surgery
and like your comment suggests … if you ask the police to solve a problem, they’ll arrest people first and probably shoot or beat people in order to solve a problem.