Category: Toys

Alberta Health Services Accepts Toys as Payment for Parking Tickets

People who have recently received a parking ticket at the Alberta Health Services (AHS) lots may not have to feel so bad after all. In a news release on Nov. 24, the AHS announced it has brought back its Toys for Tickets program, giving people a chance to donate a new, unwrapped toy rather than…


Alberta Health Services Accepts Toys as Payment for Parking Tickets During Holiday Season

People who have recently received a parking ticket at Alberta Health Services (AHS) lots may not have to feel so bad after all. AHS announced on Nov. 24 that it has brought back its Toys for Tickets program, giving people a chance to donate a new, unwrapped toy rather than paying their fine. “We paused the…


Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936)

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received broken toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films *…


California to Require Gender-Neutral Toy Aisles

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Oct. 9 requiring large department stores that sell kid’s products to maintain a gender-neutral section for toys and child care items. Assembly Bill 1084 was introduced by Assemblymember Evan Low (D-Silicon Valley) and Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) in February with an aim to create an equal and free setting in…


Shipping Snags Prompt US Firms to Mull Retreat From China

WASHINGTON—Toy maker Eric Poses created a card game last year he called The Worst-Case Scenario, a wry reference to the way the coronavirus had upended normal life. He had no idea. In a twist that Poses never could have predicted, his game itself would become caught up in the latest fallout from the health crisis:…


Wild Bird ‘Toys’ That Keep Birds Coming Back

A dome-shaped, UFO-look-alike object sends gentle ripples through the water in a birdbath located on the side yard of the nature shop Wild Birds Unlimited at busy MacArthur Boulevard in Springfield, Illinois. The solar powered “water wiggler,” as the water feature in the middle of the birdbath is called, aims to agitate the water just…