Five years after being arrested over Fairy Creek protests, the Supreme Court of Canada has said it won’t hear Angela ‘Rainbow Eyes’ Davidson’s case.
Nearly 1,200 arrests were made beginning in 2021, when protestors demonstrated against old-growth forest logging in Fairy Creek. Angela Davidson – also known as Rainbow Eyes and is currently the deputy leader for the federal Green party – was among those arrested.
Davidson was convicted of seven counts of criminal contempt in 2024. The B.C. Supreme Court ruled she violated an injunction when she locked herself to a logging road gate. She also returned to the injunction zone six more times after the first incident.
“I would do it again, yes,” said Davidson in a 2024 CHEK News Interview.
Davidson was sentenced to 60 days in jail, minus 12 da