For many, Halloween ended with a huge leftover tub of candy, the result of few kids actually going out and knocking on doors. Not because of some stupid idea about leaching off people in one part of the city for their good candy, as an ill-fated letter writer to Slate advice columnist Dear Prudence said in 2014. Maybe helicopter-parenting or whatever’s in vogue now means kids don’t get to sprint through the neighbourhood dragging pillowcases behind them. Parents chatting, kids running around, you know, that whole block party phenomenon that maybe never really existed, but feels like it did in the immediate past. In other words, Halloween is one night of many, but it’s a night that’s good for the health of a neighbourhood, of a city.

Source: National Post November 04, 2019 14:37 UTC