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Fifty-Dollar Bill is my name for the spirit of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s tenth Prime Minister and the guy whose face is on the fifty-dollar bank note. With over twenty-one years as Canada’s national leader, he holds the record as the longest serving Prime Minister in the British Commonwealth. He was also a closet occultist and liked to commune with the spirits of Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, and several of his Irish terrier dogs, all named Pat. That now, nearly sixty years after his death, the guy likes to commune with the world of the living, well… let’s just say the irony isn’t lost on me.

I asked him why he refuses to cross over, and he told me that dead people were boring, plus he gives political advice to a certain federal leader whose party will never form a government in a thousand years. While I can’t explain why he’d back a losing party, I can say that despite his questionable manners, he’s proven to be a valuable, albeit irritating, resource. During his life, he amassed a crap-pile of influential contacts among the departed. Better still, because he was a head of state and a highly educated man, his spirit contacts are far more reliable than, oh, say, the ghost of a dead chicken farmer