To think they were this close to getting the word “Alberta” scrubbed.
h/t James Mac
16 Replies to “Wild Rose Country”
The plate looks identical to lots of others like Wyoming. They probably paid someone a fortune to steal the design. My favorite license plate slogan is the District of Columbia – “No Taxation Without Representation”. Nothing wrong with “Wild Rose Country” but the Conservatives have never shied away from looking petty. Je me Souvien.
Make your own statement on a custom Alberta plate!
Get ’em while you can! AB Plate Customizer
A frivolous waste of money. We do not ‘need’ a new licence plate, the short pants set that runs our bureaucracy wants one. Plus the cops will get a better look at it because of the new coating.
They tried this a few years ago, including going back to a front plate (for the benefit of guess who?).
And I meant to add, Kate, a pretty cheeky comment. Kudos.
I wouldn’t mind a change from the orange on white plate and some of the pictures I see on plates from other jurisdictions is kinda cool just so long as we can keep the Wild Rose Country slogan.
Paranoia strikes deep.
The peecees are looking foolish which appears to be their default position these days. 30 years ago they thought that ‘wild rose’ was a good slogan on the plates. It was and still is.
Alberta should take a cue from other jurisdictions and allow charities to produce and sell official plates – just assign them a range of plate IDs and allow them to use an approved design. If you drive around Florida (for instance) there are many different official Florida plates advertising the Space Coast, University of Florida, and so on. Alberta already has a second plate style for veterans (with a large wild rose on the left and an ID starting with the letter V – but not VE6, that’s for ham radio operators).
Having alberta.ca on the license plates is ridiculous. If you type Alberta into Google, the first website that comes up is alberta.ca. Why bother? It’s not like you can surf the internet while you’re driving.
Want to make it so that the police don’t have to worry about obscured plates? Insert an RFID tag between layers of the Year sticker that we have to put on the plate every year. Cop aims the RFID reader at the car, that provides RF power to the tag which sends the license number back to the cop. Milliseconds. No RFID tag or a tag that doesn’t match the plate? Same penalty as driving with no registration. It’s easy, it’s inexpensive, and it can be updated every year as a matter of course.
BJ Clinton seriously considered investing in Saskatchewan when the licence plate logo was changed to “Land of Livingskies.” I don’t think this made anyone safer, certainly not the women.
Nevermind, soon enough you will be producing your own fake license plates.
To match your fake insurance papers, registration and that drivers license.
After all when the government does it, a patriotic citizen must follow suit.
How does it go?
“Do not steal, your government hates competition”.
I’d be less worried about what’s ON the plate as opposed to what’s IN it – perhaps Empress Allie will roll out a UN RF vehicle tracking program to aid in carbon taxing – licence plate is the logical place for an RFID chip that can be used for upping speeding revenues, taxing travel or just keeping tabs on the soiled masses. Agenda 21 über alles eh Allie?
RFID on an aluminum plate or steel composite works pretty shit poor.
They should adopt a new slogan. Perhaps “Yours To Discover”
Maybe the PC’s know they will lose the next election, and this is just a poison pill for the Wildrose Party. If Wildrose moves to change it back, even with public demand, the opposition PC’s can quack about Wildrose changing the plates for political reasons.
The plate looks identical to lots of others like Wyoming. They probably paid someone a fortune to steal the design. My favorite license plate slogan is the District of Columbia – “No Taxation Without Representation”. Nothing wrong with “Wild Rose Country” but the Conservatives have never shied away from looking petty. Je me Souvien.
Make your own statement on a custom Alberta plate!
Get ’em while you can!
AB Plate Customizer
A frivolous waste of money. We do not ‘need’ a new licence plate, the short pants set that runs our bureaucracy wants one. Plus the cops will get a better look at it because of the new coating.
They tried this a few years ago, including going back to a front plate (for the benefit of guess who?).
And I meant to add, Kate, a pretty cheeky comment. Kudos.
http://s30.postimg.org/lww4zn2ql/ABPlate.jpg
I wouldn’t mind a change from the orange on white plate and some of the pictures I see on plates from other jurisdictions is kinda cool just so long as we can keep the Wild Rose Country slogan.
Paranoia strikes deep.
The peecees are looking foolish which appears to be their default position these days. 30 years ago they thought that ‘wild rose’ was a good slogan on the plates. It was and still is.
Alberta should take a cue from other jurisdictions and allow charities to produce and sell official plates – just assign them a range of plate IDs and allow them to use an approved design. If you drive around Florida (for instance) there are many different official Florida plates advertising the Space Coast, University of Florida, and so on. Alberta already has a second plate style for veterans (with a large wild rose on the left and an ID starting with the letter V – but not VE6, that’s for ham radio operators).
Having alberta.ca on the license plates is ridiculous. If you type Alberta into Google, the first website that comes up is alberta.ca. Why bother? It’s not like you can surf the internet while you’re driving.
Want to make it so that the police don’t have to worry about obscured plates? Insert an RFID tag between layers of the Year sticker that we have to put on the plate every year. Cop aims the RFID reader at the car, that provides RF power to the tag which sends the license number back to the cop. Milliseconds. No RFID tag or a tag that doesn’t match the plate? Same penalty as driving with no registration. It’s easy, it’s inexpensive, and it can be updated every year as a matter of course.
BJ Clinton seriously considered investing in Saskatchewan when the licence plate logo was changed to “Land of Livingskies.” I don’t think this made anyone safer, certainly not the women.
Nevermind, soon enough you will be producing your own fake license plates.
To match your fake insurance papers, registration and that drivers license.
After all when the government does it, a patriotic citizen must follow suit.
How does it go?
“Do not steal, your government hates competition”.
I’d be less worried about what’s ON the plate as opposed to what’s IN it – perhaps Empress Allie will roll out a UN RF vehicle tracking program to aid in carbon taxing – licence plate is the logical place for an RFID chip that can be used for upping speeding revenues, taxing travel or just keeping tabs on the soiled masses. Agenda 21 über alles eh Allie?
RFID on an aluminum plate or steel composite works pretty shit poor.
They should adopt a new slogan. Perhaps “Yours To Discover”
Maybe the PC’s know they will lose the next election, and this is just a poison pill for the Wildrose Party. If Wildrose moves to change it back, even with public demand, the opposition PC’s can quack about Wildrose changing the plates for political reasons.
How about “(remember to breathe)”?
https://www.youtube.com/user/TravelAlbertaCanada
Gotta love those videos!
I am certain I will be able to have my vanity plate replaced at no charge/sarc off.
Or maybe I’ll order a new one which says “WLDROSE”.