A B.C. man who says he is still recovering from an attempt to change his sexual orientation through a practice known as conversion therapy is applauding a federal commitment to ban it in Canada.

Show producers also mistakenly used an image of Lake Louise to market the northern B.C. city, fueling social media mockery of the prize destination.

Patti Phillips is blown away by the response to her annual campaign to collect purses filled with supplies for women in a Kamloops shelter. "The community of women and business women, oh my gosh, they just came in in droves," she said.