Advance voting underway in provincial byelection in Arthabaska

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Electors in the provincial riding of Arthabaska are taking part in advance polling starting today ahead of a byelection on Aug. 11.
Voters will be able to cast a ballot today and Monday and will have at least 10 candidates from which to chose in the hotly contested riding previously held by the governing Coalition Avenir Québec.
The main fight seems to pit the leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec, Eric Duhaime, and Parti Québécois candidate Alex Boissonneault.
The Coalition is running Keven Brasseur in attempt to hold the riding, while the Opposition Quebec Liberals and Quebec solidaire are also running candidates.
The byelection was triggered after the departure of Eric Lefebvre, who left the Quebec government to run federally and was elected in the April election as an MP for Richmond-Arthabaska with the Conservative Party of Canada.
The riding was easily won by Lefebvre in October 2022, when he captured 51.75 per cent of votes, finishing more than 12,000 votes ahead of his closest rival.

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Victoria police investigating antiisemitic graffiti at 'oldest synagogue in Western Canada'

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Victoria police investigating antiisemitic graffiti at 'oldest synagogue in Western Canada'

Social Sharing Police are investigating an incident involving antisemitic graffiti at a Victoria synagogue that a rabbi says has left the congregation in shock. The incident at Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue, a place of worship that has stood at the corner of Blanshard and Pandora in the city's downtown since 1863, has drawn condemnations from politicians, Jewish groups and the synagogue's rabbi. Photos on social media show a message handwritten in black, capital letters scrawled near an entrance to the synagogue. "It was really a message of real hate," Rabbi Harry Brechner said on Wednesday, recalling what was written. "That they would get their revenge; they were calling us evil and baby killers and all of that kind of stuff. It was pretty harsh." Victoria police say they were called to the synagogue on Saturday. Brechner said a congregant found the message next to a set of doors during a busy day, with worship services and a bar mitzvah. The police department said in a statement said its officers then "documented the graffiti, collected evidence, and then worked with [the] City of Victoria to have it removed." They are encouraging anyone with information about it to contact them. Politicians decry message The graffiti drew rebukes from politicians like Victoria Mayor Marianne Alto, Public Safety Minister Nina Kreiger and Premier David Eby. "I am saddened and disappointed to hear of the racist and antisemitic graffiti that was left on the Congregation Emanu-El building this weekend," Alto's statement read. According to the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, 62 per cent of Jewish British Columbians have experienced at least one antisemitic incident since the Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel. "Even things between the pro-Palestinian demonstrators and the synagogue, they've been really cordial. People have been pretty respectful. So this sort of changed that," he said.