CORRECTION: My 81-year-old mom, who's a widow and has no photo ID was rejected today when we tried to get her a photo ID card.
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CORRECTION: My 81-year-old mom, who's a widow and has no photo ID was rejected today when we tried to get her a photo ID card. She's been living in Alberta since 1978 and has no current passport.
She had her birth certificate but because she changed her last name when she married in 1964, they could not issue her an ID card without her marriage certificate.
We did not know where she stashed her marriage certificate since she moved into a senior's home 3 years ago.
These new rules are going to confuse a lot of people. She needs photo ID to access her online healthcare info. If you are contacting another province for birth or marriage certificates, that will take time.
*Voting in the upcoming referendum does not require a govt-issued ID. There are other options. Phew!
Luckily for my mom, after searching through an old trunk, we found the original marriage certificate.
This UCP government is pure evil. *I stand by this statement.
@JEmphatically The same thing happened to me in the US when I tried to get my Real ID. They wanted my marriage certificate. It made no sense to me when a real ID is nothing but a drivers license which I have been carrying in the state for 30 years and in another state for 23 years. I can order the marriage license from the courthouse for a fee. I have Military ID so I decided it wasn’t worth the fee to fly domestically. Good luck. Maybe there’s another government agency that can help?
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CORRECTION: My 81-year-old mom, who's a widow and has no photo ID was rejected today when we tried to get her a photo ID card. She's been living in Alberta since 1978 and has no current passport.
She had her birth certificate but because she changed her last name when she married in 1964, they could not issue her an ID card without her marriage certificate.
We did not know where she stashed her marriage certificate since she moved into a senior's home 3 years ago.
These new rules are going to confuse a lot of people. She needs photo ID to access her online healthcare info. If you are contacting another province for birth or marriage certificates, that will take time.
*Voting in the upcoming referendum does not require a govt-issued ID. There are other options. Phew!
Luckily for my mom, after searching through an old trunk, we found the original marriage certificate.
This UCP government is pure evil. *I stand by this statement.
@JEmphatically Identification systems as a whole are messy because a few people abusing it have given those in power the excuse to implement versions that punish very specific people, women being the main people punished. That's why the tradition was to take the man's name instead of the reverse, to trap women.
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CORRECTION: My 81-year-old mom, who's a widow and has no photo ID was rejected today when we tried to get her a photo ID card. She's been living in Alberta since 1978 and has no current passport.
She had her birth certificate but because she changed her last name when she married in 1964, they could not issue her an ID card without her marriage certificate.
We did not know where she stashed her marriage certificate since she moved into a senior's home 3 years ago.
These new rules are going to confuse a lot of people. She needs photo ID to access her online healthcare info. If you are contacting another province for birth or marriage certificates, that will take time.
*Voting in the upcoming referendum does not require a govt-issued ID. There are other options. Phew!
Luckily for my mom, after searching through an old trunk, we found the original marriage certificate.
This UCP government is pure evil. *I stand by this statement.
@JEmphatically About 20 odd years ago all my ID docs, book etc were stolen. I never liked this been a number so CHOOSE to live with out it. A sim card was my biggest problem, only later would the Nigerias arrive and bring them and phones in, under the table. Bank account, opened one, with no hard copy of ID. Don't ask how, ha ha. Then 3 years ago needed one, to go see the Penguins on the famous Boulders beach. South Africans get a better price, I cannot afford the $ price for tourists.
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I mean, in the US, they're hoping to strip us of all rights to make choices like that. Probably the same there because patriarchy is at the root of it.
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@TrueNorthSpice Oh, and I hear you about not changing your name. I never did and don't regret it, but for those women who choose to do so, it shouldn't put their democratic rights at risk.
@JEmphatically @TrueNorthSpice What if you changed your name just because? Without a marriage. Do you know what they do then?
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@samk @JEmphatically Alberta is in Canada…
@josh0
Except Alberta govt would lice to be in the US. I figure the accusation of American style aspirations holds (even if accidental).
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CORRECTION: My 81-year-old mom, who's a widow and has no photo ID was rejected today when we tried to get her a photo ID card. She's been living in Alberta since 1978 and has no current passport.
She had her birth certificate but because she changed her last name when she married in 1964, they could not issue her an ID card without her marriage certificate.
We did not know where she stashed her marriage certificate since she moved into a senior's home 3 years ago.
These new rules are going to confuse a lot of people. She needs photo ID to access her online healthcare info. If you are contacting another province for birth or marriage certificates, that will take time.
*Voting in the upcoming referendum does not require a govt-issued ID. There are other options. Phew!
Luckily for my mom, after searching through an old trunk, we found the original marriage certificate.
This UCP government is pure evil. *I stand by this statement.
Sadly this bullshit is exactly the point. These assholes hate anyone who isn't a cisgender white man and they will do anything they can to stifle voices.
Cannot overemphasise how important it is that you're helping your Mum vote. Keep it up
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ID requirements target women, immigrants, & the poor deliberately.
Alberta's oligarchs fight climate action by kneecapping voting.
People like tax evader N. Murray Edwards who profit from oil wars in Iran & high gas prices
https://dailyhive.com/calgary/murray-edwards-forbes-billonaires-flameshttps://environmentaldefence.ca/2024/10/31/murray-edwards-the-fossil-fuel-fanatic/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Murray_Edwards
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/murray-edwards-cnrl-alberta-taxes-1.3568199
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/07/04/My-Strange-Canada-Day-Alberta-Separatists/
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@Npars01 @JEmphatically Of course they target women and minorities. Creeps like that always do.
While my country the Netherlands is not perfect they actually can never get in this situation. Your id, drivers license, etc are all linked to a unique government number that gets assigned at birth.
Even if you change your legal name (marriage does not change it), that number will stay the same.And every adult will get a (person bound) voting card sent home for elections.
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CORRECTION: My 81-year-old mom, who's a widow and has no photo ID was rejected today when we tried to get her a photo ID card. She's been living in Alberta since 1978 and has no current passport.
She had her birth certificate but because she changed her last name when she married in 1964, they could not issue her an ID card without her marriage certificate.
We did not know where she stashed her marriage certificate since she moved into a senior's home 3 years ago.
These new rules are going to confuse a lot of people. She needs photo ID to access her online healthcare info. If you are contacting another province for birth or marriage certificates, that will take time.
*Voting in the upcoming referendum does not require a govt-issued ID. There are other options. Phew!
Luckily for my mom, after searching through an old trunk, we found the original marriage certificate.
This UCP government is pure evil. *I stand by this statement.
@JEmphatically this really sucks but as a naïve New Zealander are there not government records of these documents?!
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CORRECTION: My 81-year-old mom, who's a widow and has no photo ID was rejected today when we tried to get her a photo ID card. She's been living in Alberta since 1978 and has no current passport.
She had her birth certificate but because she changed her last name when she married in 1964, they could not issue her an ID card without her marriage certificate.
We did not know where she stashed her marriage certificate since she moved into a senior's home 3 years ago.
These new rules are going to confuse a lot of people. She needs photo ID to access her online healthcare info. If you are contacting another province for birth or marriage certificates, that will take time.
*Voting in the upcoming referendum does not require a govt-issued ID. There are other options. Phew!
Luckily for my mom, after searching through an old trunk, we found the original marriage certificate.
This UCP government is pure evil. *I stand by this statement.
@JEmphatically Conservatives. The scrum of the Earth.
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@JEmphatically this really sucks but as a naïve New Zealander are there not government records of these documents?!
@bevan When you live in a place that keeps tracks of these kinda records, it is hard to image it being done any other way. When my love moved from the US to be with me in Norway, it became a bit of a lesson in "a different way of doing stuff".
Her surname-change when she married me, is recorded... In Norway.... There is apparently no recording of this in the US. We asked the embassy. They told us "just include the Norwegian name change papers when applying for a new passport..."
The idea that "the evil state should keep records of you!" is such a terrifying one, they appear to rather want to deal with all the more terrifying consequences of not having it.
Our marriage license, her name change, all such is recorded here, and will be of vital importance should she ever need to prove anything to the US authorities for a new ID.
Every 4 years, she gets a "voters card" in mail. No registration. Despite not being a citizen, she can vote in local elections.
Without any extra registration.
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CORRECTION: My 81-year-old mom, who's a widow and has no photo ID was rejected today when we tried to get her a photo ID card. She's been living in Alberta since 1978 and has no current passport.
She had her birth certificate but because she changed her last name when she married in 1964, they could not issue her an ID card without her marriage certificate.
We did not know where she stashed her marriage certificate since she moved into a senior's home 3 years ago.
These new rules are going to confuse a lot of people. She needs photo ID to access her online healthcare info. If you are contacting another province for birth or marriage certificates, that will take time.
*Voting in the upcoming referendum does not require a govt-issued ID. There are other options. Phew!
Luckily for my mom, after searching through an old trunk, we found the original marriage certificate.
This UCP government is pure evil. *I stand by this statement.
@JEmphatically
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@tectonic @blogdiva @JEmphatically Don’t give them the credit. It’s the Nazi’s who used similar methods to push the populace towards fascism.
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@connynasch @tectonic @blogdiva @JEmphatically Oh, it’s not just that…. If you really need another confirmation — there are German words that equate directly to what #PresidentTACO is doing. #Lugenpresse #Sturmabteilung
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CORRECTION: My 81-year-old mom, who's a widow and has no photo ID was rejected today when we tried to get her a photo ID card. She's been living in Alberta since 1978 and has no current passport.
She had her birth certificate but because she changed her last name when she married in 1964, they could not issue her an ID card without her marriage certificate.
We did not know where she stashed her marriage certificate since she moved into a senior's home 3 years ago.
These new rules are going to confuse a lot of people. She needs photo ID to access her online healthcare info. If you are contacting another province for birth or marriage certificates, that will take time.
*Voting in the upcoming referendum does not require a govt-issued ID. There are other options. Phew!
Luckily for my mom, after searching through an old trunk, we found the original marriage certificate.
This UCP government is pure evil. *I stand by this statement.
@JEmphatically do you guys not have a civil register/register of residents? How does your government even know which people exist within its borders?
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@elronxenu @samk @jamesh @JEmphatically good to know! I’ll try and time my next visit around an election, and demand one of my friends get me a sausage!
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@JEmphatically do you guys not have a civil register/register of residents? How does your government even know which people exist within its borders?
@nitrml Yes, of course they do. This is politically-driven, ahead of a referendum to separate from Canada. The provincial govt (a sub--national govt) is controlled by the separatists and they are trying to confuse us ahead of the vote. *I corrected this just now.
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@nitrml Yes, of course they do. This is politically-driven, ahead of a referendum to separate from Canada. The provincial govt (a sub--national govt) is controlled by the separatists and they are trying to confuse us ahead of the vote. *I corrected this just now.
@JEmphatically oof, that's bad. Here in Austria every citizen who has their current residence recorded in the register of residents automatically is included in the voter lists and could vote, no matter whether they actually do or not.
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@JEmphatically oof, that's bad. Here in Austria every citizen who has their current residence recorded in the register of residents automatically is included in the voter lists and could vote, no matter whether they actually do or not.
@nitrml My mom has lived in Alberta since 1978, pays her taxes, and has voted in every election - now the rules have changed to add this new ID requirement! Many are not aware of it. I wish we had the attitude of many other countries (besides the US) where voting is encouraged and even mandatory. * corrected - see my note about voting ID requirements.
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@lrt_writes That's a big "if" - there are many, many societal pressures on women to change their last name. It would take a while to shift that and in the meantime, who know what other rights would be eroded.* Sure, women can change their behaviour, but we still need to fight any patriarchal decisions that fail to acknowledge the reality of women's lives. *corrected - see my note about voting ID requirements
