A city councillor is calling on the Toronto Public Library to cancel a speaking invitation extended to an author who he says “spreads disinformation and conspiracy theories about Jews and the Holocaust.” An event set to take place Tuesday at the Toronto Reference Library features Norman Finkelstein as one of three guests as part of a new series on “intellectual freedom,” along with Christian Parenti, an economics professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, and activist and former journalist Jeanne McGuire. Finkelstein previously authored a controversial book accusing the Jewish community and Israel of exploiting and...