Pranksters were in full force this April Fool’s Day, striking fear into the hearts of Calgarians and Albertans, albeit temporarily or maybe naively if you’ve lost track of what day it is. Read More
Plenty of hilarious and creative videos have been posted for the 2025 edition of April Fools’ Day
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Plenty of hilarious and creative videos have been posted for the 2025 edition of April Fools’ Day
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Pranksters were in full force this April Fool’s Day, striking fear into the hearts of Calgarians and Albertans, albeit temporarily or maybe naively if you’ve lost track of what day it is.
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WestJet’s annual April Fools prank poked fun at people’s social media flexing while on vacation. They pitched a program that would allow vacationers to up their flex game to post their pictures on billboards so even ‘vegans’ and ‘geologists’ will know about your fabulous vacation.
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Calgary Flames fan group, FlamesNation, posted on their X account to it’s over 18,000 followers that the new Scotia Place arena will be the shape of a cowboy boot, but was quickly called out as an April Fools’ prank.
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One follower responded, “And post-game coverage will come live from the BarnBurner hot stove,”
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Not to be outdone, the OilersNation posted that the Edmonton Oilers will be charging extra for games that go into overtime, so they can discount games that finish in regular time.
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Blog site YYCNow posted that visitors to Banff National Park will now be charged a fee for posting their photos from the park to Instagram.
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One user response, “I wanna say Happy April Fools, but after the Kananaskis pass, I won’t even be surprised” received 77 likes.
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For those who favour sweet and salty snacks, Tim Hortons put out a new April Fools’ donut selection that includes lobster, ketchup chips and poutine flavours.
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BeaverTails similarly put out a video of their fried dough topped with ketchup chips and ketchup.
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If all that ketchup chip consumption has your stomach on the outs, Cabin Brewing has just the April Fools’ joke to fix it – beer soup. The video shows them brewing up a batch of their chicken noodle beer, called Lumibrothity, made with ‘whole ingredients harvested from local grocery stores.’
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Strides Running Shop in Calgary poked fun at people’s shoe collections, offering a shoe storage service and additional cleaning service (an employee with a bucket of water and scrub brush) for those with loved ones who are sick and tired of their shoes piled up at the front door.
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West Edmonton Mall got in on the action, posting that they would be offering a submarine theme room which would allow guests an underwater stay in the mall’s lagoon.
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