Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 2, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba The nation Winnipeg free press october look for simplicity in Council says testers release report rating playthings Canadian press forget worrying about whether batteries Are the new in toys children will be looking for under the Christmas tree this year dont need simplicity is said Marie Levine of the Canadian toy testing which released its 199293 toy report on toys theres not that much Money in the household in the and people Are yearning for safety and that Means traditional so there looking for traditional these toys have to be durable in simple in simple in Safe and meaning they can be played with alone or added on to other she said in they should really keep a child interested and and that a lot to ask of a toys in that category Are Lego sets and the brio wooden railway Levine Consumers Are also looking for value and doing More research into the manufacturers and Levine there demanding that toys have a Good return some toy manufacturers with 1800 numbers will Send replacement parts free of charge for toys that Levine and parents Are searching the replicator Market to save she for Lego building which come highly recommended by the Are More expensive than Litvik building which Are compatible with Levine parents let popularity be their Levine the most popular is whatever is the most she and that Doest necessarily mean a Good this years popular toy is crash but the Council gives two versions of the toy Low crash dummies and crash Cycle for fourth eight Jearolds Only gets one kids found the thrill of the crash want Worth the efforts needed for the Council a rvs Owci the Canadian toy testing Goun if released its 199293 toy of report on toys among new toys it says offer Good Tay value and Good value for the Money spent Are Woolf to railway by sri of and up ubiquitous various prices for various various Anir Itaf a flubs prices four aft treasure Island four and Stew Bloks Fay Rrt Vlk four and maker by gait 8 and took design a clock by creativity for kids five and gym by Little tikes 25 sem truck by Little tikes 3 and spy science by educational insights 812 Barbie sparkle totally rappin snap by Mattel 3 and hit Bat by Avia 36 among toys the Council gives a poor rating to Are babies doll by playmates three and test dummies by Tyco 48 Tonia Cowan up no need to get frazzled shopping for toys this year now you know what to buy for Christmas by Dianne Rinehart Canadian press scenario 1 aunt or knowing zilch about what children play searches up v and Down aisles in an enormous Christmas toy department crowded i with screaming kids and hours of the Well meaning aunt or Uncle is it be the puzzles pipe cleaner creations or the farm Clay set top rating scenario 2 Wise child free aunt or Uncle turns on sits Back in favorite armchair with Glass of and leisurely flips through the 199293 Canadian toy testing councils toy Wise one discovers puzzles pipe cleaner creations get a top three Star rating from the toy the kids who played with the farm Clay set gets the null it has a major deficiency in play value or durability and cannot be the councils annual toy report initially have been designed to help parents choose creative and Safe toys for their but its of even More assistance to the aunt or grandmother or Friend or who Doest know Crayola from All you need to know is the age of the child and the report takes it from Council spokeswoman Marie Levine for the Crayola coloured at get three stars while at gets the the available in bookstores and on gives the results of tests on its being released a month Early this year because toy purchases represent an investment to the 1990s the Council an earlier release Date will help parents budget for this year the Council celebrated its 40th birthday by including a How to guide for throwing a birthday parents will be relieved to know Shorter is and it has added a new Symbol to the ratings a birthday cake indicates whether a toy is a Good birthday gift or appropriate for loot our Mono is we sell for less More often its working 2 Only hurry w Miner pickup 5 89 9 5 air automatic 14 Only your Choice 92 Topaz is 4 9995 92aemsiabxi with air captains chairs loaded Choice 3 Only your Choice 92 explorer 4x4 a 92 festival 3 Hatchback with a 92f150 automatic overdrive 3 Only one Price 6995 8 Only one Price 92e150vanss 6500 4 Only one Price a 4 with air automatic Only one Price 91 Tempo Tomatis n a 92 Cougar is 2 loaded a i Only one Price 92 Lincoln town car loaded 87 Cougar is fully 89 Olds Delta 88 Rosyle loaded 89arrowstarxlt 89 Honda Accord sex 4 9 89 Topaz 4 with air automatic 5995 90 Cougar is fully like 89fordf150 Alt c Lariat loaded 90mkviilsc loaded 88 firebird c Shoy room 8995 in n my i u m y Lincoln Mercury 2420 Mcphillips 3399251 the guide rates All toys that Are available nationally with a three Star plus descriptions of the toy and its assets and if it is Only available in one locale it int toys get three Star s if they Are excellent in durability and play the Council flaws in any of those categories Call for two or one toys that win no Given the null major deficiencies and Are not recommended by the the toys Are organized into chapters by the age of the child they Are designed and into sections by the Type of activity they play or developmental for toys that Are simply an inexpensive and the councils Best bets from previous Are also added information in addition to rating the guide also lists q and Telephone numbers of toy retailers which Are Canadian toy testing Council q addresses and Telephone numbers of toy manufacturers including 1800 numbers if they q theme As Gideon toys and educational that list toys alphabetically with recommended appropriate the stress is on simple toys this says parents have less to spend in a tight Economy and toys have to in Canada the number of registered marriages was in 1990 compared with in while the number of marriages was considerably higher in 1990 than in the marriage rate was lower marriages per population in 1921 and in 250 thousands of marriages 200 150 100 50 o 4 1921 31 41 51 61 71 81 90 source statistics Canada Andree Lachapelle up canadians wait longer to tie data show second marriages on the Rise Canadian press Ottawa canadians Are marrying later than they did two de Cades statistics Canada re ported in the average age of a Bride marrying for the first time was by the average age was for the average age in 1971 was and by 1990 it was the Agency said both men and women Are most Likely to marry be tween the Ages of 25 and until about women were most Likely to marry Between the Ages of 20 and a generation More than 90 per cent of marriages involved peo ple not previously in per cent of brides had never been married by that figure had dropped to per for grooms in the per cent had never been mar 1 ried before but by Only per cent were marrying for the first the marriage that is the number of marriages for each people in the population has dropped slightly since earlier in the in the rate was marriages for each by the rate was Down to statistics Canada said people mar ried at a higher rate during the Sec Ond world War and just afterwards than they did at any time Over the last 70 in the year after the War the rate was marriages for each in the by the rate sagged to during these when the Fertility rate soared giving Rise to the Well known phenomenon of the postwar baby the marriage rate progressively the Agency Canada at a glance Nickel trove spills on trip Canadian press Kenora a Security guard was called to watch a stretch of Highway yesterday after a transport truck carry ing Worth of mint Grade Nickel crashed and spilled part of its Provin Cial police the Driver of the truck which was transporting the Nickel from a mine in Thomp son to an Ontario Plant for processing into slabs has been charged with careless said Buff Edgar half of Winni Peg was not injured when the truck went into a ditch shortly before six Chadwick the Nickel was to be cleaned up with a Large Magnet being trucked in from Thunder Bay a six hour drive to the court hears Case Ottawa the supreme court of Canada will decide whether prisoners have the right to vote in Federal elec the High court yesterday agreed to hear appeals in two cases involving prisoners Vot ing in both lower courts have said prisoners should be allowed to because of the elections Canada is making arrangements for prisoners to vote in the 26 referee the first time prisoners will take part in a National fraud charges Montreal sixty Mont readers of origin have been charged in what Quebec provincial police say is a million some used As Many As seven different identities to collect welfare said Richard a provincial police up to 600 people have been operating the scheme in que Bec and Ontario for several he but the Princi pal activity has been in Mont Jet setters Ottawa fisheries min ister John Crosbie and three colleagues used a defence department Jet last summer to Fly to Newfoundland for official openings and breakfast with Young to documents on file at the de Fence department show a challenger Jet left Ottawa on june 23 at with the four ministers and returned without passengers from Johns Early the following the pilots Manifest were his external affairs minister Barbara Junior transport minister Shirley Junior finance minis Ter John Mcdermid and three defence estimates the Cost of the including the plane returning empty to Otta at about for each hour of flying one Way airfare from Ottawa to Johns is about Plant layoffs Toronto aircraft maker de Havilland is blam ing slow sales for the layoffs of 400 people just months after the company was snatched from the Brink of bankruptcy by an Ontario governments listed the one of the cites largest Industrial pm is cutting its production Back from three air planes a month to the company said the Lay to begin this month and expected to be completed by will be across the Board and will include the workforce will be reduced to Down from the employed last ;