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OTTAWA — Canada's ban on flights from the United Kingdom is not being extended, replaced by a stringent COVID-19 testing program for air travellers. Canada halted most air travel from the U.K.

EDMONTON — A family member of two Somali women who were attacked in a mall parking lot says they thought they were going to be killed.

AMHERST, N.S. — The RCMP and officials in Nova Scotia are again being accused of failing to properly warn the public about a gunman on the loose.

MONTREAL — A group of seniors at one of the first long-term care homes in Quebec to receive COVID-19 vaccines have threatened to sue the provincial government if they don't receive their second doses in the coming days.

OTTAWA — The Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation is expanding its water system to deliver clean drinking water to hundreds of residents who have been grappling for more than a decade with seven drinking water advisories.

VANCOUVER — Electrical faults in underground utility cables set off a fire and a subsequent electric arc that the fire department says caused a three-metre crater in a new commercial area under Vancouver's Granville Street Bridge.

OTTAWA — The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 7:45 p.m. British Columbia has again extended its state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic nearly 10 months after it was first declared.

OTTAWA — A former Liberal MP facing charges of fraud and breach of trust related to his time in office has had his case adjourned until next month.

Several politicians have admitted to leaving the country over the December holiday period, even as their constituents hunkered down at home, following public health guidance meant to curb the spread of COVID-19.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. There are 618,646 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 618,646 confirmed cases (78,849 active, 523,564 resolved, 16,233 deaths).