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OTTAWA — A few dozen Canadian Armed Forces members have been deployed to Jamaica to train Caribbean Community troops for a mission intended to restore order in Haiti.

MATANE, Que. — Quebec provincial police have taken over an investigation into an overnight fire at a shrimp processing plant in the town of Matane, roughly 350 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.

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.

When you're looking directly at the sun, intense visible light and infrared radiation are focused on the centre of the retina in the back of the eye.