Green Party deputy leader gets jail time for Fairy Creek protests [Video]

A prominent protester and leader during the Fairy Creek old-growth logging protests was sentenced to jail time in Nanaimo, B.C., on Wednesday. 

Angela Davidson, also known as Rainbow Eyes, received 60 days of jail time, after being convicted of seven counts of criminal contempt earlier this year, though she received credit for 12 days of time already served in pretrial detention.

Davidson, who is of the Da’naxda’xw First Nation and a deputy leader of the federal Green Party, was also ordered to do 75 hours of community service for her role in the protests.

She was found to be in breach of an injunction granted to logging company Teal Cedar, obtained after thousands of protesters occupied roads in the company’s logging zone in 2021, in what is regarded as the largest act of civil disobedience in Canada.