Alberta upgrading ID credentials with digital wallet, mobile health card launch
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# Alberta upgrading ID credentials with digital wallet, mobile health card launch
No launch date or explanation in Ontario
Sep 2, 2025, 1:39 pm EDT | Chris Burt
Categories Biometrics News | Civil / National ID | Government Services
The Canadian prairie province of Alberta is embracing digital identity with the launch of a new plastic card, along with a digital wallet and a mobile health credential to go in it.
The optional Alberta Wallet will give residents control over how their personal information is stored and shared, according to the announcement.
The new Mobile Health Card will provide proof of public health insurance coverage as a more secure and durable replacement for the provinces legacy paper health cards. Alberta is the only province left issuing paper health cards, after Manitoba began issuing plastic cards in January, the CBC reports.
The new plastic card is planned for introduction next year, and combines the provinces health-care and driver’s license credentials.
In the future, the government plans to add support for digital birth and marriage certificates, educational credentials and other documents to its digital wallet.
There are already 1.8 million people out of 4.3 million (according to the 2021 census) in the province who have an Alberta.ca Account for public services, and the digital wallet is intended to build on that initiative. The Alberta Wallet is being issued through the government-services portal, which uses ATB Ventures’ Oliu platform for identity verification.
Alberta.ca Accounts were previously known as MyAlberta Digital ID.
“If you choose to use the new Alberta Wallet, you remain in control of your personal information, which will stay private and only accessible to you,” says Premier Danielle Smith.
## Largest province tight-lipped
The country’s most populous province, Ontario, quietly shelved its digital identity program sometime between when its original 2021 launch target was announced and last year, but at least o