After 2018 was finished, I posted a series of pictures from that calendar year that I hadn't posted anywhere else. Some were intended for...

Today will be a day long remembered by Ontario plate geeks. There are a few dozen of us… maybe a couple hundred if you count the lurkers. But today, we all heard the news. The 2019 provincial budget was presented, and just like the media hinted, Ontario’s getting a redesign of its plates. This is the first time they’ve even been tweaked since 1994, and it’s the first major design change in my lifetime. Opponents of the ruling party were strongly critical of various announcem

According to multiple media reports today, the slogan “Open For Business” is under consideration for Ontario’s truck plates. Simon Jefferies (Premier Doug Ford’s media relations director) was quoted in the Toronto Star as saying, “While no decision has been made, that is a slogan the Government for the People is considering for commercial vehicles only.” [1] It has not yet been clarified as to whether that would include only regular truck plates——like the kind that your budd

It's January... a time when very little happens in my collecting world, and usually, I have trouble finding subject material for the next...

When I was an undergrad student in London, I worked for a doctor. He was a dermatologist, and he was involved in clinical research of...

I used to be proud of the way I could keep my ear to the ground and sniff plates out of small-town Ontario. For a long time, I’ve...

One weekend morning, I was having breakfast with my collecting pal and neighbour Dave Grant. Sometimes we bring show-and-tell items, and...

I was flipping through one of my hobby publications—one of the papers that comes to my door about licence plates, old cars, and other...

1938 is on my mind, even though I wasn’t around back then. While I was in Barrie earlier this month, hunting for plates (and not finding...

Well, that didn’t take long. I was in front of my computer on this snowy, Sunday morning, coffee in hand, when I hit my eBay bookmark as...

November 2016 has been a tough month for many members of ALPCA. Long-time member and great guy Dave Kuehn, a guru of all things...

Brrr, it’s cold. The biggest news to come out of the Ontario media about plates, over the past couple of years, is the peeling...

As a collector of plates, I have long been interested in the manufacture of them through the years, from a hundred years ago when they...

Ugh, I despise winter… more and more every year. This weekend marks the halfway point between the fall plate meet in Grimsby and the...

This past summer, when I assembled the display that I brought to the ALPCA Convention in Rochester, I did my best to restore confidence...

There are about 2850 license plate collectors around the world who are current members of the Automobile License Plate Collectors’...