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Steve England

A polar bear walks along the shore of Hudson Bay, Canada.

Trick or treat? Not in a northern Canadian town where it’s polar bear season

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It’s the season when kids are planning costumes and parents are stocking up on bags of candy. But in a northern Canadian town, there won’t be trick-or-treating in the streets this Halloween because of the danger of roaming polar bears.

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