nono, leave it to a provincial government about to run a referendum re: SEPARATION FROM CANADA to require proof of CANADIAN citizenship to add a MAPLE LEAF citizenship marker to the top right of their drivers licenses
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@Bowreality @Asymmetricblue @robyn Ah yeah! I remember requesting a long form birth certificate for my UK Visa and it came and I was like Jeebus, thing is like a full sheet of 8.5" x 11" out of polymer and hella fancy.
@Javensbukan @Asymmetricblue @robyn Oh I guess my citizenship papers are like that. I need to bring them sometimes too
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@Bowreality @Asymmetricblue @robyn Ah yeah! I remember requesting a long form birth certificate for my UK Visa and it came and I was like Jeebus, thing is like a full sheet of 8.5" x 11" out of polymer and hella fancy.
@Bowreality @Asymmetricblue @robyn The original 'short form' one is card sized and made out of paper and very fragile.
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@Bowreality @Asymmetricblue @robyn The original 'short form' one is card sized and made out of paper and very fragile.
@Javensbukan @Asymmetricblue @robyn Who makes “cards” of our of paper anyways. This has never made sense.
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@Javensbukan @Asymmetricblue @robyn Who makes “cards” of our of paper anyways. This has never made sense.
@Bowreality @Asymmetricblue @robyn Ha truth. Mine looks like it was clearly done on a form printer using a dot Matrix printer or other type of impact printer, circa 1980s, which tracks.
Where I worked we literally *just* got rid of our (newish) Epson Dot Matrix printers which were still used in specific applications where thermal printers couldn't be used because of label incompatibility with the products.
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@Bowreality @Asymmetricblue @robyn Ha truth. Mine looks like it was clearly done on a form printer using a dot Matrix printer or other type of impact printer, circa 1980s, which tracks.
Where I worked we literally *just* got rid of our (newish) Epson Dot Matrix printers which were still used in specific applications where thermal printers couldn't be used because of label incompatibility with the products.
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@Bowreality @Asymmetricblue @robyn They were my favourite printers at work, zero issues with them. They just *worked*.
LOUDLY but, they did the thing.
Meanwhile our other printers:
Mercury is in tomatogate, I'ma eat all your paper and barf toner everywhere k? K.
That will be $600.
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@Bowreality @Asymmetricblue @robyn They were my favourite printers at work, zero issues with them. They just *worked*.
LOUDLY but, they did the thing.
Meanwhile our other printers:
Mercury is in tomatogate, I'ma eat all your paper and barf toner everywhere k? K.
That will be $600.
@Javensbukan @Asymmetricblue @robyn I agree. Endless paper too!
Printers are really overdue for a revolutionary product. They are mostly total garbage. I have a very basic and older Brother laser printer that I hardly ever use. It’s probably the most pain free printer but still it’s not an issue free experience at all. It’s a very “mood teenager” type of equipment. Limited in use too
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@Javensbukan @Asymmetricblue @robyn I agree. Endless paper too!
Printers are really overdue for a revolutionary product. They are mostly total garbage. I have a very basic and older Brother laser printer that I hardly ever use. It’s probably the most pain free printer but still it’s not an issue free experience at all. It’s a very “mood teenager” type of equipment. Limited in use too
@Bowreality @Asymmetricblue @robyn My printer at home is a Value Village special I found for $10, it's USB only and the toner I bought remanufactured for cheap. It's pretty pain free.
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@Bowreality @Asymmetricblue @robyn My printer at home is a Value Village special I found for $10, it's USB only and the toner I bought remanufactured for cheap. It's pretty pain free.
@Javensbukan @Asymmetricblue @robyn Nice! That’s definitely reasonable
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nono, leave it to a provincial government about to run a referendum re: SEPARATION FROM CANADA to require proof of CANADIAN citizenship to add a MAPLE LEAF citizenship marker to the top right of their drivers licenses
️️️️️Is it just me, or does it look like someone in the UCP asked “AI” to redesign our licence card?
imho it’s pretty ugly… and yes: made infinitely worse by the racist, fascist, prejudice-enabling maple leaf in the corner.
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nono, leave it to a provincial government about to run a referendum re: SEPARATION FROM CANADA to require proof of CANADIAN citizenship to add a MAPLE LEAF citizenship marker to the top right of their drivers licenses
️️️️️@robyn "We know that there are hundreds of thousands more health-care cards that are in circulation than there are Albertans, so we know that fraud is rampant* said Nally
Or, wild possibility here, could it be that people keep having to get new health cards because the current ones are made of paper so they disintegrate and need replacing?
Typical UCP mindset - if I got a new card it would be because I was doing fraud, so that *must* be what's going on.
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@robyn "We know that there are hundreds of thousands more health-care cards that are in circulation than there are Albertans, so we know that fraud is rampant* said Nally
Or, wild possibility here, could it be that people keep having to get new health cards because the current ones are made of paper so they disintegrate and need replacing?
Typical UCP mindset - if I got a new card it would be because I was doing fraud, so that *must* be what's going on.
@robyn "Could the extra cards be accounted for by Albertans who have passed on but are still in the system? Nally said the government would need to do more research into why there’s such a large discrepancy"
Oh for fucks sake. We know there's rampant fraud but also we haven't made any effort at all to check.
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@robyn "Could the extra cards be accounted for by Albertans who have passed on but are still in the system? Nally said the government would need to do more research into why there’s such a large discrepancy"
Oh for fucks sake. We know there's rampant fraud but also we haven't made any effort at all to check.
@dragonfrog it is absolutely bizarre. also, when they say "cards," do they mean the flippy floppy paper things that get issued, or do they mean actual distinct health care *numbers*. These are obv very different, and I don't see them make that distinction 🧐
the former is: I changed my name, I get a new set of cards. I moved within AB, same. I lost my wallet, same. etc etc.
I think it's mostly a dogwhistle tbh
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@DavidM_yeg @robyn Ew, I hate it even more now. Ugh. Whyyyyyy.
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@dragonfrog it is absolutely bizarre. also, when they say "cards," do they mean the flippy floppy paper things that get issued, or do they mean actual distinct health care *numbers*. These are obv very different, and I don't see them make that distinction 🧐
the former is: I changed my name, I get a new set of cards. I moved within AB, same. I lost my wallet, same. etc etc.
I think it's mostly a dogwhistle tbh
@robyn I think a whole lot of the time, when people lose their wallet or the card goes through the laundry, they also get a new health number. e.g. If they moved a long time ago and didn't update their address of record, they probably can't show proof of address to correlate with the old record, so a new one gets created.
I bet people who are unhoused for any length of time go through a lot of health numbers - their stuff gets stolen so often.
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Is there a penalty for defacing the card?
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Is there a penalty for defacing the card?
I feel the strong urge for some civil disobedience.It violates the Traffic Safety Act to drive with a cracked, mutilated, altered, or defaced card. Fine is $400+
In general it’s against the law to alter or deface an official document.
Just might be worth it though.
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It violates the Traffic Safety Act to drive with a cracked, mutilated, altered, or defaced card. Fine is $400+
In general it’s against the law to alter or deface an official document.
Just might be worth it though.
Ok. Subtle it is then and no hole punch. Sigh.
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Ok. Subtle it is then and no hole punch. Sigh.
@ScribblersEmporium @DavidM_yeg @robyn An itty bitty rainbow sticker over that corner of the card would probably suffice...
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@ScribblersEmporium @DavidM_yeg @robyn An itty bitty rainbow sticker over that corner of the card would probably suffice...
@AmeliasBrain @ScribblersEmporium @robyn
I love this! As a removable thing it seems easy to defend. I wonder if we can create something easy enough to access and consistent enough to be a real statement instead of a weird ‘personal quirk’?
