While Canada continues to demonstrate a strong commitment to international press freedom protections and practices, there is more room for progress, particularly with regards to press coverage involving the rights of Indigenous peoples and land disputes.

So Canada has a lower index because indigenous people aren’t getting coverage? Unless the government is putting pressure on journalists to avoid covering those topics, I do not see how that hurts the freedom of press.

Also, no surprise that the US has dropped.

$10k bond for pooping on a car? That seems way too high.