The photo is a small part of what I wore on Thursday pumpkin carving which I talk about along with my pumpkin prowl & a day of the Dead party. community connection fun and whimsy to help me navigate running out of money in Dec & now sharing petition in Jan, attempting to spread my story throughout Canada, and indeed the world, so that both I & people like me can have proper supports and the system can save oceans of money.

recent gfm update with list of difficulties https://gofund.me/6d981312

petition(still hoping to get to 2000 from current 1325) https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition

I talk about this Sundance award-winning documentary a few episodes ago and it is now on CBC's Independent lens this coming Monday at 9:59 Pacific standard Time So check your listings and time zones so you can PVR it. I don't know if it'll be on CBC gym but you might want to check

where I talk about how I use whimsy as a survival tactic. I'll talk more specifically about what actually went down on a Halloween and the day of the Dead. But here I talk about how I've been using it as a survival to especially in light of what's going on for me right now and I talk about what's going on for me right now

Links I mention

recent GoFundMe update that has a breakdown of the difficulties https://gofund.me/6d981312

petition which we are hoping to bring to the premier's office in December although not early December anymore apparently which has got me a bit crestfallen and scared https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition

For some reason this latest update of Spotify for podcasters is only letting me show you a sliver of the photo of my hat. anyway hopefully it will behave itself at a later date

sorry I got the name wrong. I think I was saying in the episode afterlife but it's actually life after and here's the link https://mailchi.mp/multitudefilms/life-after-us-gathr?e=80ed2a920b

Also here's the petition that I mentioned in the podcast. If you haven't signed and or shared it yet then I would be so grateful

https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition

And here's the Canary UK article I mentioned

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/12/20/marcia-mecfs-canada/

well I start talking about losing the help from a friend with laundry that I've had the past year or two but that support not existing anywhere even though it's medically prescribed along with housekeeping I think is about a larger conversation around power. So I talk about my views on power does he try to understand how the heck do I build a communication bridge to forms a power That exists within government and medicine and indeed often in journalism that I consider to be leaky and problematic

here's that world study on long covid rates that I mentioned in the episode https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofaf533/8244677?login=false

And because I mentioned the Atlantic article here is an updated link so you can still read it https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/?gift=yKNFI6bZtyj8clr3yQtLYCSwFBjNIwPzg10Axz0GrTA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

And here's the GoFundMe I mentioned in the podcast

https://gofund.me/6d981312

and also the petition I mention. worldwide signatures welcome!

https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition

The Atlantic article link expired so here's a new one for you to be able to read (Or listen cuz it has a audio version at the top) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/?gift=yKNFI6bZtyj8clr3yQtLYCSwFBjNIwPzg10Axz0GrTA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Also #GoFundMe link has that Atlantic link at the top in the latest update In case you want to share as you can't post news articles on Facebook or Instagram https://gofund.me/6d981312

Petition link. And again worldwide signature is welcome. We are pushing for that last 700 to get us up to 2,000 so if you could sign and share that will be amazing https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition

photo is of a bouquet I did for flower power a few weeks back. That's a big hope thing for me. with all of the difficult things coming at me, Not well enough to make any this week.

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the link to the Atlantic article in the previous episode expired so here's a new link that lets you read the article https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/?gift=yKNFI6bZtyj8clr3yQtLYCSwFBjNIwPzg10Axz0GrTA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Petition

https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition

gfm https://gofund.me/6d981312

here's what I read from at the end of the episode

https://www.tumblr.com/jellogram/792428018098487296/its-honestly-insane-how-much-your-life-can-change?source=share

It's honestly insane how much your life can change with so little extra money. When people talk about "money buying happiness" they usually talk about medical bills and travel and stuff, but I'm talking single digit amounts here. Five dollars can buy you a snack, an espresso, a pack of bandaids, some ibuprofen, bus fare, or even some new plastic dishes. All of those things can dramatically change how your day goes.

The main thing I learned by being broke and now having minimal-but-consistent income is that those little items can absolutely make or break your mental health. The difference between having zero dollars to spare versus having $5 to spare is astronomical.

The Atlantic article just came out https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/?gift=yKNFI6bZtyj8clr3yQtLYCSwFBjNIwPzg10Axz0GrTA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

If you can't read it please let me know and I will see about finding a way for you to be able to read it

As I mentioned in this podcast I'm going to include links to The petition where we accept worldwide signatures, the BC budget presentation and the GoFundMe where I do regular updates and also of course it's keeping me alive

Petition

https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition

bc budget presentation June 17th at 1:50 p.m.

My copy

text

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLWh9vDEkw19LwB5JMlFmQyRRl6hXNiZOc-13cSRJfI/edit?usp=drivesdk

audio

https://open.spotify.com/show/0oNLwzI1qZvvZ51bau1aNi

government transcript draft https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnNcxR_BKBQT4jqXOsoqNW_do9E6rvXTDxH1CiP0G5HHCzLw/viewform?usp=sf_link and https://www.leg.bc.ca/hansard-content/Committees/43rd1st/fgs/20250617am-Finance-Victoria-Blues.htm

The Canary UK did an article in December when the petition came out if you want more of a textual synopsis December 2024

https://x.com/TheCanaryUK/status/1870202754200940686?t=kEDZ1y5rkulir29j8zdlEg&s=19

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/12/20/marcia-mecfs-canada/

GoFundMe

https://gofund.me/6d981312

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