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Ten good news stories from Toronto Star headlines this week

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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.

‘Litany of malfeasance, misdirection, greenwashing’: Collingwood councillors comment on judicial inquiry findings

For the first time since Associate Chief Justice Frank Marrocco issued his report on the Collingwood Judicial Inquiry, members of council had the chance to comment on his findings.

Deputy Mayor Keith Hull was a member of the council from 2010 to 2014 which sold the former Collus utility and built the two recreational facilities that eventually led to the inquiry.

“The council of the day and key senior individuals failed the community,” he said at the Nov. 16 council meeting.

Marrocco made hundreds of recommendations for the town, as well as the province, in hopes of improving transparency for municipal governments.

“I think we know and have known for years that we have operated within a system that has too far great (amount) of latitude to allow for things that have transpired in the town of Collingwood,” he said. 

Since 2013, the OPP have been investigating the issues discussed in the inquiry and Mayor Brian Saunderson said that investigation is ongoing.

Hull said he was interviewed by the OPP in 2013.

“I am hoping for all concerned that at some point the provincial police come forward with a conclusive statement so that we as a community can move over and the cloud and the shadow that still cover this community can finally be lifted and move onward,” he said. 

Perhaps the most passionate member of council was Mariane McLeod, who was working as a journalist at the time of the sale. She said the entire report is a finding of wrongdoing.

“Not just a finding of wrongdoing but a litany of malfeasance, misdirection, greenwashing, greed, enabling, wilful ignorance, a coverup and just general shenanigans,” she said.

McLeod was not pleased with the $7-million cost, but put the blame on those involved and said the town would “still be paying, had we not done this.

“I would beg that we never again let the good old boys prevail,” she said. 

Coun. Steve Berman said the findings send a message to anyone who thought the inquiry wasn’t necessary.

“For anyone who said or maintains that this was nothing but a witch hunt, I think Justice Marrocco’s own words show, that sometimes, there are in fact witches out there,” he said.