New AB drivers license design.

[16hypen3sp]

What do you guys think? Supposed to save the AB gov $1 million annually.

http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/huge-news-alberta-drivers-licences-to-feature-image-of-albertosaurus

[Disoblige]

Cool I suppose, might as well make it fun if we're going to save money regardless.

[Xtrema]

Why 2 pictures?

[Disoblige]

Why 2 pictures?
We have 2 pictures on our current one too though.

[schocker]

I would say more ugly than the proposed licence plate last time. I do like dinosaurs though.

[EK 2.0]

I feel like we just got these current ones recently no??....

[FraserB]

I feel like we just got these current ones recently no??....

2009 apparently.

Hopefully these are out in November when I need to renew mine.

[Thaco]

wonder if i will get the new one, i doubt it, just renewed last week, should be here shortly.

[D'z Nutz]

I still remember the paper driver's licenses so the current ones still seem kinda new and flashy to me :rofl:

[BerserkerCatSplat]

I'm shocked they still haven't integrated the Alberta Health Cards into the ID to save us having to carry around that stupid piece of flimsy, worthless crap.

That being said, fuck yeah dinosaurs. Let me have a license plate with that on it.

[ExtraSlow]

I'm shocked they still haven't integrated the Alberta Health Cards into the ID to save us having to carry around that stupid piece of flimsy, worthless crap.

That being said, fuck yeah dinosaurs. Let me have a license plate with that on it.

+1 and +1.

[03ozwhip]

Are they circulating right now? I have to renew end of this month, I'd like a new one, they're fun lol

[AndyL]

Wtf why don't they incorporate the AHS card like Ontario and BC and... You've got to dig both out at the doctor's anyway, it's ridiculous.

[Crazyjoker77]

Why 2 pictures?

Its hard to tell from the picture but I'm sure its like the federal driver licenses and the one on the right is actually over a clear window. Its a security feature so that the can hold it up over your face and match the basic bio-metric markers up.

[Sugarphreak]

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[Xtrema]

We have 2 pictures on our current one too though.

Did I get a fake one? Only 1 pic on mine.


I'm shocked they still haven't integrated the Alberta Health Cards into the ID to save us having to carry around that stupid piece of flimsy, worthless crap.

That being said, fuck yeah dinosaurs. Let me have a license plate with that on it.


AHS card is for life. DL is 5 years only.

AHS is for everyone. DL is for drivers only.

So unless you want to spend more $ on a provincial ID system, I have no problem with these 2 systems being separate.

If you hate that piece of paper, laminate it. I don't think I had a new AHS card for over a decade or more and I already signed the organ donor portion on it as well. So the DL one is just redundant.

[jwslam]

Did I get a fake one? Only 1 pic on mine.
Hologram on the back

[Xtrema]

Hologram on the back

Well. Never knew.

[Thaco]

Did I get a fake one? Only 1 pic on mine.




AHS card is for life. DL is 5 years only.

AHS is for everyone. DL is for drivers only.

So unless you want to spend more $ on a provincial ID system, I have no problem with these 2 systems being separate.

If you hate that piece of paper, laminate it. I don't think I had a new AHS card for over a decade or more and I already signed the organ donor portion on it as well. So the DL one is just redundant.

i just took a pic with my phone, its always been good enough, one time one lady said they need the actual card *next time*, i have been back to that clinic several times since with my photo and its been fine.

[BerserkerCatSplat]

AHS card is for life. DL is 5 years only.

AHS is for everyone. DL is for drivers only.

So unless you want to spend more $ on a provincial ID system, I have no problem with these 2 systems being separate.

If you hate that piece of paper, laminate it. I don't think I had a new AHS card for over a decade or more and I already signed the organ donor portion on it as well. So the DL one is just redundant.


DL gets renewed every 5 years, yes. Not sure why that makes it less capable for AHS integration (see: other provinces that integrate them with 5-yr DLs)

Alberta ID is for everyone, not just drivers. The province is more than happy to issue you with a photo ID, just without the driving endorsement. (https://www.servicealberta.ca/id-cards.cfm) The provincial ID system is already in place, so no cost concerns there.

[schurchill39]

Am I alone in thinking the proposed new design is ugly as sin? Why the yellow, to represent the prairies?

[EK 2.0]

2009 apparently.

Hopefully these are out in November when I need to renew mine.


Yeah, much longer than I thought haha....

[jwslam]

i just took a pic with my phone, its always been good enough, one time one lady said they need the actual card *next time*, i have been back to that clinic several times since with my photo and its been fine.
I don't even know where my AHS card is. I have the number memorized and I've never been asked to prove that with a card...

[D'z Nutz]

DL gets renewed every 5 years, yes. Not sure why that makes it less capable for AHS integration (see: other provinces that integrate them with 5-yr DLs)

Alberta ID is for everyone, not just drivers. The province is more than happy to issue you with a photo ID, just without the driving endorsement. (https://www.servicealberta.ca/id-cards.cfm) The provincial ID system is already in place, so no cost concerns there.

I think at the end of the day, it's just a matter of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. The topic of moving away from a paper health care card was brought up again earlier in the year but was brushed off as being too expensive to implement at the moment, but they could have totally piggybacked onto the deployment of these new cards.


I don't even know where my AHS card is. I have the number memorized and I've never been asked to prove that with a card...

Yeah I had an accident a couple weeks ago and I don't even carry my AHS card or have my number memorized, but I do have that information uploaded on my website so I was able to retrieve it pretty easily which was more than enough for EMS. Clearly I didn't have a concussion if I was able to pull up the address and enter the password hahaha

[reiRei]

BC doesn't fully integrate them

I was given two ID's....one is a drivers licence, the other is a service card. They look identical to each-other, so much so that I often grab my service card instead of my DL when go to drive somewhere.



I think you have the option to have separate cards or not - my health card is on the back of my driver's license.

[HiTempguy1]

Am I alone in thinking the proposed new design is ugly as sin? Why the yellow, to represent the prairies?

Completely agree, the current cards are A+, the new ones look like embarrassing pieces of garbage. Change for the sake of change, hurray!

[rage2]

Change for the sake of change, hurray!
They’re changing it because it’s more secure. You know, because the current one is so easy to fake.

[jwslam]

I think you have the option to have separate cards or not - my health card is on the back of my driver's license.
I'm assuming then these are printed at the registries and not this ridiculous practise of having people drive around with a paper license for weeks while they mail one from a central facility for "security" reasons.

[Maxx Mazda]

Excited for the tin like sound it makes when dropped on a hard surface.

[300havoc]

I think you have the option to have separate cards or not - my health card is on the back of my driver's license.

When I lived in Vancouver my first licence and Health card was separate, because I had just moved there. I also was only allowed to have a 2 year licence. When I renewed I had the option of getting them integrated, and got a 5 year card. So much better having one card instead of a card and a piece of paper that you aren't even allowed to laminate. I took a picture of mine and had it on my phone, so that when it gets beat up in my wallet I could still show them a picture of what It looked like at the beginning.

[reiRei]

I'm assuming then these are printed at the registries and not this ridiculous practise of having people drive around with a paper license for weeks while they mail one from a central facility for "security" reasons.

Sadly, no.. I still had to cram a stupid yellow piece of paper in my wallet for a couple weeks before I got the new licence.

I will however get to re-experience the joy of having a paper health care card (wtf alberta) in a few weeks when I move back.


When I lived in Vancouver my first licence and Health card was separate, because I had just moved there. I also was only allowed to have a 2 year licence. When I renewed I had the option of getting them integrated, and got a 5 year card. So much better having one card instead of a card and a piece of paper that you aren't even allowed to laminate. I took a picture of mine and had it on my phone, so that when it gets beat up in my wallet I could still show them a picture of what It looked like at the beginning.

I really like how convenient it is to have the cards combined, it just sucks when you get ID'ed because that card only counts as one card - so you're digging for another piece of ID

[sabad66]

I really like how convenient it is to have the cards combined, it just sucks when you get ID'ed because that card only counts as one card - so you're digging for another piece of ID

do you get asked for a second piece of ID often? i can't remember the last time i had to show 2 pieces

[beyond_ban]

Are they circulating right now? I have to renew end of this month, I'd like a new one, they're fun lol

They are. My brother renewed a few weeks back and was surprised when he received a completely different design. At that time, i do not think it was even public knowledge. Pretty cool in person, but at the end of the day it is just a drivers license.

[reiRei]

do you get asked for a second piece of ID often? i can't remember the last time i had to show 2 pieces

I do, I think it's just policy of govt. liquor stores - I honestly don't think I pass for a 20 year old, but they usually ask me for 2 pieces of ID when I buy liquor

[300havoc]

I do, I think it's just policy of govt. liquor stores - I honestly don't think I pass for a 20 year old, but they usually ask me for 2 pieces of ID when I buy liquor

I always got hit with 2 pieces at the weirdest times. A dive pub in Halifax wanted to pieces, so I showed them my Visa and it was ok. I was at a bar bowling in Vancouver and I was asked for a second piece of ID. Didn't have my credit card, but had an expired AB license. Used that as my second piece, along with my BC license. Everyone at the table was laughing because they couldn't believe the guy accepted it.