Members of British Columbia's Liberal party are set to gather at a convention in Penticton this weekend to welcome new leader Kevin Falcon and map strategy ahead of the next election, possibly under a new party name. About 800 delegates are registered to attend and launch a process that could result in a name change. Kevin Falcon, who won the leadership race earlier this year, promised to renew and rebuild the party in consultation with members. The B.C. Liberals are not affiliated with the federal Liberal party and have described themselves as ``a made-in-B.C. free enterprise coalition.'' Th

The Canadian men's soccer team put a dramatic week behind them with a decisive 4-0 win over Curacao to open their CONCACAF Nations League campaign on Thursday. The victory followed a week that saw the Canadian players miss two training sessions and refuse to play a friendly game against Panama in Vancouver due to an ongoing contract dispute. Canada, ranked 38th in the world, didn't appear to have much rust to shake off on Thursday, however, pressuring No. 79 Curacao just two minutes into the game. Alphonso Davies scored twice, including on a first-half penalty kick, while Steven Vitoria and L

Canada's chief public health officer says there are now 112 cases of monkeypox across Canada and all of those infected are male. Dr. Theresa Tam told a briefing today that there are 98 cases in Quebec, 9 in Ontario, 4 in Alberta and one in British Columbia, with other suspected cases being investigated. She says the National Advisory Committee on Immunization is recommending that people who may be at high risk of exposure have a vaccine. But she says a mass vaccination campaign against the virus is not currently necessary. Dr. Tam says the disease mainly spreads from close physical contact, i

Canada is poised to become the first country in the world to require that a warning be printed on every cigarette. Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett says the measure is meant to reach more people, including youth who often share cigarettes and don't encounter the packaging. A 75 day consultation period is to begin tomorrow. Bennett also revealed expanded warnings for cigarette packages that include a longer list of smoking's health effects. Canada has required the photo warnings since the turn of the millennium, but the images haven't been updated in a decade. Rob Cunningham, senior policy a

The White House has released details of Canada's contribution to an international effort to ease the pressure caused by irregular migration. The US says Canada has agreed to welcome four-thousand additional migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean by 2028. It's part of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, which is being announced at the Summit of the Americas. The agreement will also see Canada accept an additional 50-thousand agricultural workers this year from Mexico, Guatemala and the Caribbean.

A full scale search for a boater missing in the waters off Vancouver has been scaled back and turned over to police as a missing persons file. Vancouver police confirm a 46 year old Surrey, B.C., man has not been seen since renting a motorboat from Granville Island on Wednesday. Police say he was planning to cross English Bay heading toward Bowen Island. A search was launched later that day when an empty and drifting five metre boat was spotted in the bay. An air and water search continued Wednesday and resumed Thursday but police say no sign of the lone boater has been found. They say they a

India reported 7,584 new COVID cases in the last 24 hours, more than 300 cases than yesterday, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday. The active cases in the country rose to 36,267 which stood at 32,498 yesterday. The active cases are 0.08 per cent of the total caseload in the country. With 3,35,050 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, the daily positivity rate was observed to be 2.26 per cent. The weekly positivity rate was recorded to be 1.50 per cent. According to the health ministry, 3,791 COVID patients recovered in the last 24 hours taking the total number o

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday issued fresh summons to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi to appear before it on June 23 in the National Herald case. The agency issued the fresh summons as Gandhi did not appear before the investigators on June 8 due to Covid-19. The Congress leader had developed a mild fever on June 1 evening and was found Covid positive, the next morning. Earlier on June 1, the ED summoned Gandhi to appear before its investigators on June 8 in the case, while her son and former party chief, Rahul Gandhi, is to appear before the agency on June 13 in connecti

The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights, easing one of the last remaining government mandates meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus. A senior administration official said the mandate expires Sunday at 12:01 a.m. ET, saying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined that it's no longer necessary. The official, speaking Friday on the condition of anonymity to preview the formal announcement, said that the agency would reevaluate the need for the te