Health Canada published a consumer product recall on September 9, 2026 for the Woodure Toddler Kitchen Step Stool, model WD1357 — the plywood tower that lets a two-year-old stand at counter height and help with dinner. Roughly 2,000 of them were sold in Canada. The notice, filed under identification number RA-82602, says the tower can collapse or tip over while in use, and that a child's torso can fit through the openings on the front and back sides.
Here is the part that trips people up. Most recall notices are an instruction to give something back: stop using it, take it to the store, get your money returned. This one is not. There is no refund, no replacement and no return address. The remedy is a free repair kit, which means the tower stays in your house — and stays unusable — until the kit arrives and goes on correctly. A recall you cannot resolve by handing the product over is a recall that requires you to remember it twice: once today, and again when the envelope shows up.
The sales window runs two years, from July 2024 to June 2026, which matters more than it looks. A tower bought as a baby-shower gift in the fall of 2024 is unlikely to be sitting in the kitchen where you would notice a recall notice. It is at a grandparent's house, in a basement, or with the cousins who inherited it when your child outgrew it. This piece covers what the Canadian notice actually says, how to confirm whether your unit is the recalled one, how to get the kit, and why passing the tower along is not one of your options.
