Mark Carney won the 2025 Federal Election. Now what? In this week's episode, Elizabeth gives us her thoughts as a poll supervisor on the recent federal election and its surrounding propaganda. If we want a better life, we need to look to each other, not any particular government or party. Also, let's all say a prayer for the poll workers in Ottawa-Carleton.

Word of the Week: specious

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This is the story of the entity next door, colloquially known as The Viking. In this week's episode, Elizabeth remembers her next door neighbour, aka her childhood bogeyman. Still to this day, he's a mystery figure, with a face only Elizabeth invented. Also don't smoke, please.

Word of the Week: perfidious

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Is voting confusing? I've got you. In this week's episode, Elizabeth breaks down what happens at a Canadian voting station. After working at three elections in a row, she's got the in's and out's of a poll station down to a science. Can you vote without registering? Who are these people at the desk? Is your vote safe? Your questions answered. Plus a fun little hallucination story.

Word of the Week: epistemicide

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In this week's episode, Elizabeth finally tells the story of perhaps the most terrifying night of her life. She might also have barely avoided being taken by ghosts.

Word of the Week: ostentatious

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Galway by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Aftermath by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Anxiety by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Classic Horror 2 by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Very Low Note by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Join host Elizabeth Dean, a Mississauga writer and spoken word poet, every Wednesday as she looks back on some of her most strange and exciting life experiences, and shows us that life never fails to disappoint.

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Three years in a row trying to fast for Ramadan, and it did not go well, at all. In this week's episode, Elizabeth dives into what it was like fasting for Ramadan for the very first time, as a non-Muslim. Life is like a box of chocolates— something, something, everything goes wrong always. Also, Elizabeth might just have a terrible immune system.

Word of the Week: retrospect

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