Addresses won't be on Sask. vehicle registrations

As a move to foil thieves, Saskatchewan Government Insurance is taking people's addresses off vehicle registrations.

That's happening after SGI did a survey and found that 61 per cent of those responding leave their registration certificates in the glove boxes of their cars.

The concern is that if somebody's vehicle is broken into while they're away from their residence, the crook can use the address — and sometimes a garage door opener, another common glove box item — to raid the home.

And so, as a deterrent against potential criminal activity, the addresses won't be on the certificates any more.

Printing registrations at home now allowed

Meanwhile, SGI is also introducing another change that it says will make getting registrations more convenient.

People will be able to print their own registration at home on ordinary white paper.

Until now, people had to have it printed on special green paper at an SGI office. That meant waiting for a few days for the certificate to arrive in the mail.

Now, anybody who's signed up for a free MySGI account can print off a vehicle registration at home.

SGI said this change will save more than $520,000 dollars a year, in paper and postage costs.