6 April Fool's Day Jokes This Year That Are Trolling Canadians So Hard

Tim Hortons did a reverse joke with huge Timbits.
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You've probably seen a lot of April Fool's Day jokes floating around and some are trolling Canadians so hard. While you might fall for them for a minute, they're pretty hilarious once you figure it out. 

Here are six Canadian pranks that you can laugh at. You might even end up wishing some of them were real.

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McDonald's Canada joked that they were using the metric system and changed the Quarter Pounder to the 1/9th Kilogrammer.

There was also a double whammy Canadian April Fool's Day joke with Roots posting about an individual Timbit holder and a bag that looks like a box of Timbits.

Justin Trudeau had some fun of his own and posted on his Instagram story that he read comments about his beard and shaved it off. He later shared that he still has the beloved beard.

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Kraft Dinner posted that they were releasing an essential oil kit that smells like KD but Narcity Quebec confirmed it was just a joke

Pizza Pizza even joked that they now have chicken-flavoured popcorn in the shape of chicken wings.

Tim Hortons made up for disappointing people with a joke about huge Timbits a few weeks earlier by doing a reverse April Fool's Day and giving out the massive treats.

  • Senior Writer

    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.
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