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From Halloween hijinks to Toronto dedicating a day to one of her native sons, we have compiled some of this week’s best good-news stories from thestar.com.

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We asked and you delivered! The Star put out a call for your photos of your creative costumes as you got ready to do your best to celebrate Halloween in 2020. And, boy, did you send us a pillowcase of fun!

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Dropping candy down a chute for little costumed Baby Sharks, Mulans and Black Panthers. Flinging full-size candybars to them via mini-catapults, “Game of Thrones” style, or with decorated slingshots. A favourite North American festivity is being tested by COVID-19. And people rose to the challenge for trick-or-treating that’s both safe and fun during a pandemic.

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An email from the Queen Mother Cafe proprietor Andre Rosenbaum, not sharing news of an impending closure, but instead its 42nd anniversary on Oct. 26, was comforting. At least for now one of the iconic spots that shaped people’s memories of Queen West is staying put.

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With more than a decade of screenwriting experience under his belt, the Canadian filmmaker behind comedies “This Is the End” and “Pineapple Express” is trying to expose youth from under-represented communities to the industry through Reel Start.

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Olufunke Asemota and her daughter lived in a shelter after arriving in Canada in December 2018. The single mother, originally from Nigeria, said she was a refugee claimant who didn’t know anyone in Canada and had no family to turn to for help.

But amid the “trauma (and) confusion,” she said, she met a friend who would introduce her to a training program that would turn her life around.

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It’s going to be a long winter, so we’re doing whatever it takes to add an extra dose of joy into daily life. Here are more things to make you happy. Hopefully they will bring you some joy too as we head into a week marking the start of daylight saving and the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

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After five years out of the TV spotlight, Jon Stewart will have his own show again.

Stewart, the former anchor of “The Daily Show,” has reached a deal to host a current-affairs series for Apple TV+, the company announced Tuesday.

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With love and pranks, Ian Paget and Chris Olsen are among millions of U.S. newbies looking to soak up social media stardom on TikTok. While they aren’t breakout stars like Nathan Apodaca (the guy with the cranberry juice and long board), they symbolize something else on TikTok. Their care for each other shines through for a range of supporters, from middle-age moms to LGBTQ youth struggling to come out.

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Mayor John Tory declared Saturday as “John Candy Day” to mark what would’ve been the actor’s 70th birthday. The mayor made the announcement on social media, saying, “It’s our way of remembering a beloved actor and comedian with roots in Toronto.”

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White rhinos are the second-largest land mammal and are an endangered species with a near-threatened status. The newborn’s birth on Sunday was a successful product of the Species Survival Plans overseen by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to ensure the responsible breeding of endangered species.