Toy Donation

• Town of Innisfil giving people festive alternatives for paying parking tickets

  For the eighth year in a row, the Town of Innisfil, Ont., is giving residents with parking tickets a chance to pay their fines through toy and food donations instead of cash.

  Canada

  Nov 8, 2022
  
• Ritz-Carlton’s viral donation campaign draws social media backlash

  In an Instagram post, the luxury hotel promised to donate one toy to kids at the CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital for every share.

  Canada

  Dec 8, 2020
  
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• Sarnia, Ont., council approves Toys for Tickets pilot project

  The pilot project will run Dec. 1 to 15 and will let people pay for parking tickets by donating unwrapped toys or gift cards.

  Canada

  Oct 13, 2020
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• Can Man Dan camping in the cold to collect toys for 630 CHED Santas Anonymous

  Dan Johnstone — a.k.a. Can Man Dan — is hoping to collect $100,000 worth of new toys for 630 CHED Santas Anonymous.

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2019
• Toys for Tickets campaign expands province-wide for all AHS parking tickets

  This holiday season, Alberta Health Services is once again accepting toys as payment for parking tickets.

  Crime

  Dec 4, 2019
• Surrey Christmas Bureau appeals for toys for kids in need

  "The saddest thing we can imagine is anyone looking at an almost empty shelf, thinking they have to pick the last toy available.”

  Nov 30, 2019
• Calgary Firefighters Toy Association hosts Christmas party, gives toys to 4,300 kids

  The Christmas party featured a holiday lunch, live entertainment by the Prairie Dogs and a visit from Santa, who arrived in an antique fire truck.

  Canada

  Dec 16, 2018
• 300 toys donated to dogs battling cancer in Calgary

  Kali's Wish Cancer Foundation, a Calgary non-profit that supports families facing pet cancer, delivered 300 KONG toys to the city's two veterinary oncology hospitals.

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2018
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• Toys for Tickets program allows Orillia residents to pay parking fines with toy donations

  Beginning Thursday, residents in Orillia will have an alternative way to pay parking tickets.

  Canada

  Oct 31, 2018
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• Family of Calgary firefighters carries on Christmas tradition for nearly 70 years

  When Doug Robb became a firefighter in 1948, he remembers working at Fire Station #1 downtown. Over the holidays, the crew would deliver refurbished used toys to kids in need.

  Features

  Dec 24, 2017