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TORONTO — Two right-wing media organizations won a legal battle Monday to allow their correspondents to cover this week’s election debates, in a ruling they touted as a victory for freedom of the press.

A federal court judge in Toronto said Rebel Media and the True North Centre for Public Policy successfully established that they would suffer “irreparable harm” if denied access to the English-language leaders’ debate taking place in Gatineau, Que., and its French-language equivalent later this week.

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Justice Russel Zinn ordered the Leaders’ Debates Commission to provide accreditation to the three men the commission had previously rejected, but said he would release his reasons for the ruling at a later date.

Ezra Levant, one of Rebel’s founders and its main personality, celebrated the judgment on Twitter. “We won! We won! Freedom won! Canada won! Journalism won!” he wrote.

The two organizations turned to the court after learning their representatives had been denied access to Monday evening’s debate on grounds that they engaged in advocacy. They are also seeking a judicial review of the decision and the process used by the commission, though that will be dealt with at another time.