{"id":5527,"date":"2025-11-02T04:15:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/treat-count-results-show-that-rain-and-blue-jays-didnt-damper-metro-vancouvers-halloween-spirit\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T04:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:15:43","slug":"treat-count-results-show-that-rain-and-blue-jays-didnt-damper-metro-vancouvers-halloween-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/treat-count-results-show-that-rain-and-blue-jays-didnt-damper-metro-vancouvers-halloween-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Treat count results show that rain and Blue Jays didn\u2019t damper Metro Vancouver\u2019s Halloween spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>British ColumbiaEven through inclement weather and a riveting Toronto Blue Jays game, CBC B.C.\u2019s treat count reveals that the Halloween spirit remained alive and well. Some readers told us they gave out 1,000 pieces of candy or more.CBC B.C.\u2019s annual treat count reveals province\u2019s longstanding trick-or-treating hotspots have persistedAkshay Kulkarni  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Nov 01, 2025 5:53 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesA house decorated for Halloween is pictured in Vancouver, B.C., on October 28, 2025. (Ethan Cairns\/CBC)Even through inclement weather and a riveting Toronto Blue Jays game, CBC B.C.\u2019s annual treat count revealed that the Halloween spirit of trick-or-treating remained alive and well in the province.As part of an annual tradition, in collaboration with Simon Fraser University\u2019s City Program, we  asked readers in B.C. to tell us how much candy they gave out and displayed the results on an interactive map.Longstanding Halloween hotspots \u2014 like Douglas Park in Vancouver and Queens Park in New Westminster \u2014 once again came to the fore. One house in the Douglas Park area recorded 2,500 trick-or-treaters.Andy Yan, director of SFU\u2019s City Program, said a rainfall warning in Metro Vancouver ultimately didn\u2019t do much to quieten the demand for candy.\u201dOverall, the [treat] patterns are pretty much in line with previous years,\u201d he said in an interview.Yan likened the Halloween spirit of giving away treats to potlatch culture, and how one\u2019s neighbours are judged not by what they have, but what they gave away.\u201dThe more important thing is that generosity to strangers,\u201d he said.CBC has run the annual treat counter for years with SFU\u2019s City Program, as part of a way to gauge civic engagement. (Ethan Cairns\/CBC)This year, readers who counted the number of costumed trick-or-treaters at their door were also asked if they made an effort to hand out Canadian candy, in light of a movement to buy Canadian across the country.While the responses to that question were split evenly between yes and no, Yan said he\u2019s interested to see whether specific Canadian candy shows up next year.Blue Jays feverYan said that the Blue Jays\u2019 game against the Los Angeles Dodgers \u2014 which started at 5 p.m. PT \u2014 was also a factor in turnout on Halloween night.But he said he noticed that many houses were celebrating both the baseball game and Halloween, with one in the Trinity Park neighbourhood projecting the game through their windows.This house in the Trinity Park neighbourhood of Vancouver had Halloween decorations up, but also the Toronto Blue Jays game. (Submitted by Andy Yan)Douglas Park resident Bruce Verchere, who has been counting trick-or-treaters at his house for a decade, said he normally projects Thriller or another spooky film through his windows on Halloween.But this year, he was one of many who celebrated the Jays by putting them on one of the screens.\u201dWe had over 1,500 [trick-or-treaters] in 2021 and then it\u2019s gone up every year since then, over 3,000 last year,\u201d he said.\u201dAnd then this year, we just took a dip back to about 2,200 because of the rain.\u201dWhile many CBC readers said that inflation didn\u2019t significantly affect what they gave out, Verchere and his wife spent around $500 on treats this year, which was higher than previous years.\u201dIt\u2019s a lot, but it\u2019s so much fun for us,\u201d he said. \u201cWe really get a lot of pleasure out of sharing the joy with the kids and seeing all the costumes.\u201d ABOUT THE AUTHORAkshay Kulkarni is an award-winning journalist who has worked at CBC British Columbia since 2021. Based in Vancouver, he is most interested in data-driven stories. You can email him at akshay.kulkarni@cbc.ca.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British ColumbiaEven through inclement weather and a riveting Toronto Blue Jays game, CBC B.C.\u2019s treat count reveals that the Halloween spirit remained alive and well. Some readers told us they gave out 1,000 pieces of candy or more.CBC B.C.\u2019s annual treat count reveals province\u2019s longstanding trick-or-treating hotspots have persistedAkshay Kulkarni \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,118,1],"tags":[120,116],"class_list":["post-5527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-british-columbia","category-indigenous","category-uncategorized","tag-british-columbia","tag-indigenous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}