It’s a night when we willfully indulge children in alarming amounts of things we call treats. Halloween is a lot of fun for kids and for adults, too. But otherwise intelligent people are facilitating the celebration of a tradition that has swerved in the wrong direction. What could be a high-quality, entertaining time together for parents, children, and neighbours is instead the occasion for the collection of the lowest-quality chocolate bars, candies, and other tooth-rotting, high-calorie junk. Article content

Halloween has become a hallmark holiday for getting it wrong. We succumb to harmful market forces, misguided commercialized interests, and risky behaviours. We’re not stopping to think. And we’re not finding ways to elevate the voices of those who are putting forward better a

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