Canadians, prepare to wipe away the tears of nostalgia – the maker of Kleenex told Global News Friday it has made the decision to pull its tissues from the Canadian market.

After the province's justice minister denied reports witnesses would no longer be supplied with tissues in Alberta courtrooms, a woman told Global News she was told just the opposite in a courtroom earlier this week.

Marine biologists are hoping they can free one of the few remaining female North Atlantic right whales from a length of thick fishing rope that has become wrapped around its upper jaw.