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

A boy plays with Playmobil Dinosaurs during the Canadian Toy Testing Council's 2009 award-winning toy press conference in Ottawa on Nov. 14, 2008. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press

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.