Police are banning pro-Palestine protesters from residential streets in this Toronto neighbourhood

I won’t ever love the idea of the government telling people when, where, or how they’re allowed to protest but there definitely has to be a line somewhere and I’d imagine most Canadians would believe it’s been crossed.

I do wonder why if this was an option why Ford pursued a court injunction to prevent the recent Al-Quds day protest rather than just having the police stop it. In that case i think the end result of allowing protests and counter-protests to go ahead and charging people who broke the law (and investigating them as possible hate crimes) was preferable. If anyone is more familiar with Ontario law is there a legal reason to be handling these differently? Or is it more that it’s easier politically to shut down something that’s been happening for a while than doing it preemptively?