Brad Ross, the city’s chief communications officer, said staff regularly check playgrounds to ensure donated items “do not pose any safety hazards.”
loved playing with the buckets and shovels in the sandpit at Cudmore Creek Park in midtown Toronto. Almost every day, Orava would accompany her grandson to the park, near Mt. Pleasant Road and Eglinton Avenue, where they would often be joined by dozens of parents and their toddlers from the nearby daycare.
“It’s rather sad that the city has been a bit overzealous when you know the kids are now trying to get outside and play,” said Orava. “It just does seem a bit Grinch-like to me.” Sara Evans, a mother who frequently brings her two-year-old daughter and six-year-old son to the park, said most of the toys were fully functional and safe: “A lot of the toys were very nice, and they were not broken. So for them to take them and just throw them out kind of sucks.”
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