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The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 8:15 p.m. The B.C. Centre for Disease Control's website says the province is reporting 519 new cases of COVID-19 and 12 deaths.

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — A lawyer for a man convicted of stabbing two high school students in Abbotsford, B.C., said his client didn't have the capacity to understand what he did was wrong because of a mental disorder.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. There are 681,328 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 681,328 confirmed cases (79,293 active, 584,652 resolved, 17,383 deaths).

MONTREAL — A major Montreal synagogue was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti Wednesday afternoon.

VICTORIA — Racist comments directed towards a British Columbia Indigenous community fighting a COVID-19 outbreak were denounced Wednesday by federal Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller.

WASHINGTON D. C., Wash. — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following last week's "day of fire," another historic reckoning arrived Wednesday for Donald Trump as members of the House of Representatives voted to impeach the U.S.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's health minister says it's "very disappointing" that some doctors in the Vancouver region jumped the queue to get a second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

OTTAWA — Alberta Sen. Scott Tannas says he has travelled to Hawaii during the holidays.

MONTREAL — Former Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair was arrested today for the second time and is facing a new charge of sexual assault.

CHARLOTTETOWN — The family of a girl who was sexually abused by a Prince Edward Island actor involved in a theatre production in Charlottetown has filed a civil lawsuit against the perpetrator and two arts organizations on the Island.