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A Toronto anti-Israel demonstration can go ahead on Saturday as planned. An Ontario judge denied the provincial government’s attempt to obtain a court injunction to shut it down. The dismissal of the request arrived less than an hour before the Al-Quds Day rally in downtown Toronto was scheduled to begin. Similar rallies are planned for other Canadian cities. Ontario’s lawyers were grilled during the Saturday afternoon hearing as they argued the protest was a forum for antisemitism and should be shut down given heightened tensions that have arisen around the U.S.-Israeli war in...