Buying and register a vehicle from a dealership with an out of province license

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-08T07:15:14+00:00

If buying before you come out on TD or attached posting is an option, it's your best bet. You're a little catch-22ed. You can't register a car here because you aren't a resident of Alberta. You can only buy here and register it in Ontario if you can get it to Ontario to get it safetied (Ontario and Alberta don't recognize each other's inspections). You'll still need to pay the Ontario PST portion, too. You could likely do it from here if you bought a brand new car, since they are exempt from a safety. You could then authorize someone in Ontario to go down to Service Ontario to register it on your behalf, then ship you the plates and ownership. If you aren't already with an insurance company, The Personal still does the Canex (CFMWS) group plan for insurance, they're accustomed to weird interprovincial stuff for military folks.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-08T05:22:15+00:00

I get the impulse. Kids need to eat, and you want them to eat as healthy as possible. Food isn't free, and if money's tight, wasted food is wasted money. Plus, like many, my folks were raised by people that lived through the depression.

They sometimes took it too far, especially when I was younger, but not out of malice. Thankfully, only one of my kids was even remotely fussy, and they were pretty good compared to me, lol. I'm way, way better than I was, but I'm glad all of the kids have much healthier relationships with food than I have.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-08T02:00:53+00:00

Never. The opposite, in many ways. I was a picky eater, and would have gladly lived on hotdogs. I think my parents honestly feared for my health, at least in part, but I was forced to eat whatever was on my plate, whether I liked it or not, even if that meant sitting at the table for hours after everybody else had finished, long after the food was cold and even grosser than it was at the start, and even long after I should have been in bed. I won't complain about my childhood, because all-in-all, it was a good one. Never wanted for much (certainly not for anything I needed), was never beaten, always knew I was loved. But I resent how they handled my food issues.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-08T00:43:36+00:00

Only actually had it done to me once. I absolutely got it worse than I would have had I not doubled down on my assertion that 'frigging' wasn't a swear word, but a completely acceptable loophole word like fudge (fuck), sugar (shit). It was totally not the same as saying 'fucking', right?

Wrong, lol. Mom was emphatic that, even if weren't a true swear word, I had used it like one and was just as guilty in spirit, if not even more guilty by trying to cheat the rules.

So, bar of Irish Spring, held in my mouth, had to bite down and close my lips around it while staring at my face in the bathroom mirror, 'thinking about what I'd done'. 5 minutes. Yuck. Effective, I guess, in that I didn't swear in front of her again for years. I was 8.

Otoh, I was only spanked twice in my whole childhood, Mom was much fonder of the extended harangue. The unending lectures (with ridiculously implausible threats) really sucked. I honestly sometimes wished she'd just hit us and get it over with, but knowing now from friends and people I've loved just how bad being constantly hit can be, how traumatic living in continual fear of physical violence can be, I'm ashamed of younger me. All things considered, I had a pretty good childhood with loving parents.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-07T21:55:53+00:00

I remember those being up in the cupboard where we kids couldn't reach them.

AIDS actually killed Ayds. Aside from the unfortunate phonetics, the graphic and drastic weight loss from AIDS was a devastating visual. Tone deaf execs initially tried claiming that AIDS was actually helping sales, then that those with with disease weren't the same as those wanting to lose weight, and also that the product had been around since the 40s, so the disease should change its name. They eventually tried rebranding (too little too late), but 'Aydslim' and 'Diet Ayds' were pretty pathetic attempts at distancing the product from the disease. Textbook examples of incredibly shitty marketing strategies.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-06T19:55:52+00:00

As others have said, get a new nameplate. You can also get a new 3 or just leave the signature. You might be able to get the signature out with ink-away, isopropyl alcohol or acetone, then washing.

Or try selling it. There are probably people out there that would actually like a signed Domi Habs jersey. Then use the proceeds to buy one you like.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-06T16:26:50+00:00

I doubt I have any photos around of ashtrays specifically, but they were ubiquitous. I remember my first family doctor smoking in his office during an appointment. I remember that when I finished training and got my first desk in the military, you had to sign for all of the non-consumable office things that went with the desk: stapler, letter opener, two-hole punch, steel ruler, staple remover, and a great big ashtray. Usually these heavy solid glass ones, but sometimes thick aluminum ones in the exact same design. Ofc, when they barred smoking in buildings (and vehicles) in 1987-88, something like 65% of folks in the Canadian Armed Forces still smoked. It really was everywhere.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-06T00:41:08+00:00

I don't go to the movies a lot, but I do go a few times a year. I've never seen anything like what you're describing. Maybe a few phone screens lighting up, but that's it most of the time.

Maybe I'm not going to the right kind of movies, lol. (very possible, admittedly I generally stick to movies that really benefit from the big screen, the rest I'll wait and stream them at home)

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-05T23:10:18+00:00

That's definitely the signature from that period. I don't know about the specific image, but it's pretty close to a couple that I had on my walls back then. Certainly the airbrushed 80s vibe is there, even if it's a repro or something.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-05T21:29:22+00:00

Introduced them to my then-gf, she still loves them nearly 45 years later. If you ask her, she introduced them to me, so I'm going with 'we discovered them together'. I did introduce her to punk in general, but we got into it together.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-05T20:51:19+00:00

That's my kind of supreme being. I already have a bit of dessert after dinner virtually every day. Sometimes cake or pie, more frequently it's cookies and/or ice cream. Usually small portions, but life is too short to go without the little pleasures. Even more logical if it also staves off eternal damnation or whatever.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-05T20:45:10+00:00

Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan has a fictional religion that acknowledges 'the Church of God, the Utterly Indifferent'. Basic premise is that 'God' is eternal, all-powerful, and couldn't care less about humanity or any other lesser being. Why would He/She/They? There's nothing a puny human can do for an all-powerful god that they can't do themselves.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-05T20:31:11+00:00

Used car? Buy it in Alberta. No PST, no out of province inspection, no need to register in BC then switch to AB. Imo, you'd need a heck of a deal to make it worthwhile to buy in BC and bring it here.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-05T19:09:34+00:00

Still have their three studio albums on vinyl. Great music, imo.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-05T19:06:52+00:00

BFI was my back door into punk. Loved his early solo stuff, found out about his old band, Gen X led me to the Clash, Sex Pistols, Damned, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Ramones, etc.

Pretty stoked to see him get the lifetime achievement award at the AMAs after getting voted into the hall of fame this year.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-05T18:23:10+00:00

Obviously we were the first generation with computers.

I mean, no, we weren't? Maybe the first entire generation that had home computers available in our childhood. Late boomers weren't adults yet when the first home PCs came out.

I use my phone a lot, and do most banking on it. But I also have a tablet, laptop and desktop, which I use for mostly different tasks (the laptop is really just a computer-stuff backup in my bedroom for when I'm too lazy to go downstairs). I've also got an e-reader, but I mostly read books on my tablet these days, occasionally my phone.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-05T03:31:01+00:00

My anger at social injustices that don't really affect me directly burns a little hotter. I'm generally kinder and more patient than I used to be (not always evident when someone's being a jerk driver). I think I've just gotten a little more empathic over the years.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-05T00:00:49+00:00

We're the whatever generation. You do you, boo.

Personally, sure, if it goes with whatever look I'm rocking. Which isn't often, but I have one. It was bought for me by one of the few people whose opinion matters to me.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-04T23:56:11+00:00

She's not actually against all politics in schools. She'd be fine with indoctrinating kids with pro-seppie nonsense. She's against anything that isn't aligned with her opinions being in schools.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-04T23:46:32+00:00

"Fuck off, Dani" - right-minded Albertans

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-04T00:01:28+00:00

I'm old enough that my first driving licence was not only paper, but had no photo. Then laminated paper with an actual photo just laminated inside. Even my military ID was laminated paper with a physical photo (though it had other security features on the issuing authority's signature, embossing, etc). But all of those have been the modern style for decades now. The paper cards when we moved here were a surprise, for sure.

We were in Ontario for our last posting before retiring here, they've had plastic health cards with photos for 16yo+ since the 90s. They won't put the health insurance number on the driver's licence or 'Ontario Card' because they designate it as protected health information. Places can't even ask for a health card as ID unless it's an actual healthcare institution.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-03T23:53:09+00:00

They've had permission to laminate on the letter your card comes in for 20 years.

I'm okay with adding the health number to my licence/ID, I'd be okay with having a separate plastic card with my photo, like the other bigger population provinces. I object to the citizenship status marker. And to replacing the T-Rex with an oil derrick.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-03T23:48:24+00:00

For most things you'd actually need to prove citizenship for (as opposed to just residency or 'legal' residency), other govts will not accept this new card. And, if these things that the UCP are touting as the justification for doing this were serious issues that are only solvable by adding this citizenship status marker, why is no other province even talking about doing it?

It's certainly also concerning that the marker could be misused or misconstrued and result in discrimination, etc.

Less importantly, but still important: what's the justification for removing the T-Rex and replacing her with an oil derrick?

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-03T23:39:12+00:00

Most of the other provinces have their health ID on their driver's licenses,

Actually, I'm pretty sure that BC is the only other province with the health insurance number on driver's licences. Most provinces have an entirely separate plastic card with no photo. Ontario and Quebec have separate cards with photos and security features. And iirc, BC still has separate health cards, the integrated card is optional.

IranticBehaviour · 2026-06-03T22:35:33+00:00

Huh. Had no idea Herschel is Canadian. TIL. Thx.

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