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Rebranding as “Voltswagen.” Shutting down Trader Joe’s. Emailing confirmation of a $750 food delivery. The range of April Fools’ Day marketing pranks gone awry is as varied as their reception.

Halifax Regional Police are investigating a robbery that happened Friday night at the Shoppers Drug Mart in the city's Fairview neighbourhood.

ZEBALLOS, B.C. — Efforts to coax an orphaned whale calf out of a lagoon off Vancouver Island have been paused and fisheries officials are now monitoring the animal from afar until the tidal situation improves, Fisheries and Oceans Canada says.

MONTREAL — With one week left before her family's scheduled deportation from Canada, Deborah Adegboye stood outside of the federal immigration minister's Montreal office on Friday pleading for a chance to stay.

FREDERICTON — An international environmental organization is calling on the federal government to step up protections for endangered North Atlantic right whales beyond the 2023 measures it's opting to repeat this year, noting birth rates are already

OTTAWA — Canadian exports of thermal coal increased another seven per cent last year, reaching the highest level in almost a decade.

OTTAWA — Ontario's Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it prepares to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse in early April.

Millions of people in parts of Eastern and Atlantic Canada will be able to see the rare solar eclipse happening on April 8. But they should only look up if they have proper eye protection, experts say.

OTTAWA — A new poll indicates 51 per cent of Canadians support banning the social media app TikTok, after a U.S. bill aiming to do just that passed in the House of Representatives.

MONTREAL — Almost a year after smog from wildfires led officials in Montreal to cancel two major fireworks shows, groups representing pyrotechnics companies have released a study that concludes the displays have a small effect on air quality.