American Investigative Reporter Tries and Fails to Get $25,000 Fine for Hiking in Nova Scotia

American Investigative Reporter Tries and Fails to Get $25,000 Fine for Hiking in Nova Scotia

American journalist James O’Keefe travelled to Nova Scotia to attempt to receive a fine for defying the province’s ban on hiking in the woods, but was ultimately not charged. O’Keefe, the founder of O’Keefe Media Group, said in an Aug. 26 video on X that he travelled to Sydney, N.S., to purposely try to receive a $25,000 fine after seeing Canadian Armed Forces veteran Jeff Evely receive a $28,872.50 ticket for hiking in the woods in the Sydney a…