‘Flabbergasted’: Six Canadian reporters stunned to learn their phones were tracked by police

‘Canadian police have been tracking the cellphones of six investigative journalists, treating them as suspects, media and police officials said. The scandal comes a day after reports emerged revealing that police had also been spying on another journalist.
Marie-Maude Denis and Isabelle Richer, the hosts of the Enquête (Investigation) program, and the show’s former host, Alain Gravel, all confirmed on Twitter that they had been spied on, claiming that the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), also known as the Quebec Provincial Police, had tracked their phones.
“I’ve just learned that my incoming and outgoing calls have been spied on by the Sûreté du Québec in 2013,” Denis wrote on Twitter, while Gravel tweeted: “My turn to get a confirmation that I was targeted by court mandates to obtain a log of my calls by the SQ.”’
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