What’s so interesting about Oct. 19? It’s the anniversary of Maurice Richard becoming the first NHLer to score 500 goals, back in 1957. It’s also the anniversary of the Beatles’ 1963 record, I Want to Hold Your Hand.

And, most important, it’s Election Day in Canada.

As you head to the polls (perhaps thinking about the hockey season or even humming 1960s’ Mop Top melodies), here’s what you need to know:

Q. When are the polls open?

A. In Ontario and Quebec, you can vote from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET. (Note: the Blue Jays play at 8 p.m. so you could run into bottlenecks around the dinner hour as people try to cast their ballots and rush home in time for the action.)

Q. Remind me about the ID again?

A. To vote, you need to show one piece of government-issued ID, such as a driver’s licence, that bears your photo, name and current address.

Voter-information cards can’t be used anymore as supporting ID.

People who only have a piece of ID that shows a name, such as a passport or health card, will also have to provide other ID, such as a piece of mail showing their address. For a full list of acceptable proofs of identity, see: http://bit.ly/1Dn1CdR.

Q. Where do I vote?

A. The name of your polling station should be clearly indicated on your voter registration card, which should have come in the mail around the end of September.

If you did not receive a registration card, you can go to this site and  enter your postal code to determine where you should go on election day: http://bit.ly/1PpFam8 or call 1-800-463-6868.

Elections Canada also has a section on its website where you can check if you’re on the official voter’s list: http://bit.ly/1nWfP9G.

Q. What if I am not on the voters’ list?

A. If you’re not on the list but still want to vote, you can register at your polling station just before you cast a ballot. Just make sure you have the necessary ID.

You can, if you want, print out a registration form from the above link, fill it out and bring it with you to save time at the polling station.

Q. Will there be long lineups?

A. Although a record 3.6 million Canadians turned out at advance polls Thanksgiving weekend, Elections Canada says there’s no historical correlation between turnouts on advance voting days and on election day itself.

“We’re ready for a lot of turnout but the advance polls are no indicator,” spokesman David Rutherford said Sunday. “We have a mechanism whereby if more staff are needed, they can be moved to where they’re needed.”

Q. Anything else I should know?

A. Political parties will often help you get to your polling station if you’re a supporter. As well, Uber says it is offering new users free rides to and from polling stations on Election Day in the cities where it operates.

Q. Who should I vote for?

A. That’s up to you. But if you want a quick guide to how the main parties differ on some key issues, go to the Ottawa Citizen’s voter guide:

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/voter-guide-how-the-parties-differ-on-the-big-issues

– Ian MacLeod, Ottawa Citizen and The Canadian Press

Conservative ads appearing in Chinese and Punjabi newspapers in the Vancouver and Toronto area are accusing Liberal leader Justin Trudeau of making marijuana accessible to kids, supporting drug injection sites and suggesting the Liberals would allow brothels to open in neighbourhoods.

The Province, alerted to the ads by a tweet from Vancouver’s CKNW’s news director, asked a volunteer to translate.

Here it is, compared with the relevant parts of the Liberal’s party platform:

“Liberals want to legalize marijuana, would allow children easier access”

According to Liberal.ca, the party’s stance on marijuana is that it plans to “legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana,” which it also describes as a way to “ensure that we keep marijuana out of the hands of children.”

The platform goes on to state: “We will remove marijuana consumption and incidental possession from the Criminal Code, and create new, stronger laws to punish more severely those who provide it to minors, those who operate a motor vehicle while under its influence, and those who sell it outside of the new regulatory framework.”

So while the Liberals would like to legalize marijuana, they still plan to regulate and restrict its access, especially to minors.

“Liberals want to install illegal drug injection sites in your neighbourhoods.”

While we couldn’t find anything on Liberal.ca covering the party’s stance on safe injection sites, Justin Trudeau has previously said that, yes, he is in favour of safe injection sites — along with the New Democrats and a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that said Insite saves lives, according to an article published in the Globe and Mail in Aug. 2015.

Located in Vancouver, Insite is the only legal supervised drug injection site in Canada where visitors can inject themselves with heroin, cocaine, and morphine.

And according to an article published in The Georgia Straight earlier this year, Trudeau also addressed the topic during a visit to UBC in March:

“I disagree with loosening any of the prohibition on harder drugs,” Trudeau said. “I think that there is much that we can and should be doing around harm reduction. Insite is a great model of that, and I certainly want to see more safe injection sites opened around the country. And I am firm on the fact marijuana needs to be controlled and regulated and that prohibition isn’t working. But I’m not in favour of loosening restrictions on harder drugs.”

So while Trudeau doesn’t appear to have concrete plans to open another safe injection site “in your neighbourhoods,” he does openly support Insite.

The office of Prime Minister Stephen Harper weighed in on the ad Tuesday evening, saying “Justin refuses to acknowledge the damage that drugs do to families and communities. He wants to allow the sale of marijuana in corner stores and increase the number of heroin injection sites, dangerously misguided policies that would only make drugs more accessible to our children.”

“Liberals want to legalize prostitution, have them open brothels in your neighbourhoods.”

The CBC reports that the Tories are defending the brothel claims with Trudeau’s vote against anti-prostitution Bill C-36.

The Liberals do not have a policy calling for the legalization of prostitution.

With files from National Post Staff and The Canadian Press