Reposted by JocelynJustin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026dear city of vancouver gastown and chinatown are two blocks from each other you do not bike between them you should know this since you are, um, the city sincerely justin 1221925
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Oh my gosh we got a bouquet @todmaffin.com! D’awwwww 💕 it’s our pleasure to be part of such a great community. 062
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 14/04/2026@thevaginawhisperer.bsky.social discovered this on sloppy FB page. Just sharing my deep sense of discombobulation at seeing myself depicted standing up. That's me in front w/ pink hair (& apparent boob job). I've been a full-time wheelchair user with paralysis since I was 9. 442
Reposted by JocelynMadhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 17/03/2026hundreds of American health professionals have moved to British Columbia 🇨🇦 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caB.C. hires more than 400 U.S. health-care workers in 1-year recruitment blitz | CBC NewsThe numbers from B.C.’s Ministry of Health show 414 U.S. health-care workers accepted jobs in the province between March 2025 and January 2026. 24122
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 06/03/2026You can just do things and be bad at them. (In fact, that’s step 1 and 2 to doing anything proficiently and later, maybe well…but doing/making things just for enjoyment is underrated but worthy.) vt.tiktok.com/ZSuR8ShKX/vt.tiktok.comTikTok - Make Your Day 020
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Just me and my alpaca blanket #fiberprep #spinning #alpaca #princegeorgefibreshed 160
Reposted by JocelynIva Cheung @ivacheung.com · 03/03/2026CMHA-BC is looking for people with lived and living experience of mood and anxiety challenges to join a provincial advisory committee for a potential stepped-care service. Deadline to apply is March 6: forms.office.com/pages/respon...forms.office.comMicrosoft Forms 043
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026How did I get to age 40 something without putting together that the German word Kaiser is from the annoying (or Fallout New Vegas) pronunciation of Caesar? 000
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Come find me on Canadian social site Hey.cafe! @jocelynm: Public health nerd, spinal cord injury wonk, love a good mountain bike trail or a rainy day with yarn. Spouse to everyone’s fave emotional support Canadian. #heycafe hey.cafe/@jocelynmhey.cafeJocelyn (@jocelynm) / Hey.CaféPublic health nerd, spinal cord injury wonk, love a good mountain bike trail or a rainy day with yarn. Spouse to everyone’s fave emotional support Canadian. 1325
Reposted by JocelynTod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 01/03/2026Another one! Andi is an RN from Oregon — she and her wife are buying a house in #Comox and she'll be commuting to #Nanaimo to work in NRGH! Andi is the 5th healthcare worker in 72 hours to pass through the Nanaimo Healthcare Infusion (I think we're past 40 American healthcare workers moving here?) 613627
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Even more evidence that RFK’s statements about Tylenol and anti depressants during pregnancy, and the risks of vaccines for kids are false and harmful. This administration is more concerned about scaring you than actually “making America healthy again.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... 020
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Is this not what communities all over the Island (and the province) have been doing for the last several decades? See: Chemainus 010
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Friends at @coffeestainnorth.bsky.social I am forever indebted to you for the peace you have brought to my household when Satisfactory came to Xbox. No more loud, shouting matches with teams of drunk and stoned college students driving my husband @todmaffin.com crazy on Overwatch. 120
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026How Facebook ruined our friendship skills - and how you can fix it. vt.tiktok.com/ZSmCSyaPp/ 011
Reposted by JocelynLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 23/02/2026Posting several links, this is madness: "An estimated 200,000 to half million U.S. firearms are smuggled into Mexico every year ... 'We have confiscated, in the time that I've been in government, 50,000 guns of high power, of high caliber ... Fifty thousand guns. And 75% of them from the U.S."cbsnews.comMexico fights to dam "iron river" sending guns from U.S. to cartelsWhile many in the U.S. have lambasted the flow of migrants and drugs from Mexico, the porous border works both ways. Mexico's government says guns from the U.S. are fueling cartel violence. 39752
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Bad punchline: US prez Trump sends USCS Comfort, a medical relief ship - from a country where healthcare costs doubled or tripled for most people in the last 2 months - to Greenland where healthcare is free (but geographically difficult to access for remote communities). 010
Reposted by JocelynTod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 17/02/2026Heads up if you have a disability... @aircanada.bsky.social is charging my wife and I hundreds of dollars extra because she uses a wheelchair and they won’t provide an accessible airport transfer (which we paid for in the package) that she can use unless we pay more. 913267
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I am so thankful that we have someone like Chief Accessibility Officer Stephanie Cadieux - until our country and its business community fully buy in to their responsibility for access & inclusion and start following the law… 1/2 220
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026When your marketing manager is a boomer and your copywriter is a millennial TikTok user. (You were SO CLOSE!) 010
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 14/02/2026@todmaffin.com found a Valentine’s Day card for me clearly designed by someone spying on us in our living room. 😜😆💕 140
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026This week from the Island Healthcare infusion discord: Why aren’t we using a more secure community platform, then Discord? Because there aren’t any like this. It’s impossible to compete with American tech behemoths… and American companies own most of the cloud computing anyway... 1/x 120
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 13/02/20262 (maybe 3?) years after WestJet tried to charge us extra for accessible airport transfer included in our package, this time @aircanada.bsky.social vacations has done it. I’m so disappointed, youve made such progress on accessibility since those bad old days of in 2022. Say it ain’t so. 2154
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Describing statistics like this drives me crazy. Wouldn’t expect it from @reuters.com but here we are. Why is that BUT there? 1 in 5 is 20%. These are not contradictory statistics - why are they described as if they are? 20% is less than 29% last I checked. www.reuters.com/world/albert... 020
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 10/01/2026“[US] Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.” Frank Zappa (possibly, modifications is mine) 061
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Today in orange cat tales: I am beginning to think that Otis is addicted to our gas fireplace. He has started waking me up at 4 AM with no problem other than the fire place has gone out. This afternoon he came into my office yowling the house down. Sure enough the fire was off again. 470
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 02/12/2025VANCOUVER, SURREY, VICTORIA, BURNABY! - A TON of accessible rental units just came up on The Right Fit program! It's a Christmas Miracle! This site helps people with physical disabilities keep accessible housing while their access and support needs are worked out. therightfitbc.org/listings/therightfitbc.orgProperty Listings Archive - Right Fit 031
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025“An ending is just a period waiting to become an ellipses.” “Ellipsis, Errorist” “That’s the spirit!” Elle Cordova is one of my faves. Can’t wait to see her host SNL one of these days. vt.tiktok.com/ZSfREkXos/vt.tiktok.comTikTok - Make Your Day 000
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I keep having to look up US thanksgiving dates bc I every time I see a black Friday TikTok, I think, it can be black Friday yet… 010
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 16/11/2025One of life’s big mysteries, the use of quotation marks on instructions. We get that your boss gave you the copy, Lance, but why quote the first line instructions in the sign. (If you did, why not quote ALL of the instructions?!!) #grammar #punctuation #handwashing #hospital 010
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 16/11/2025What a huge loss. I envision a just and equitable world where Alice, Stella and Arley are thinking and writing great things together. www.cbc.ca/news/world/a...cbc.caU.S. disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51 | CBC NewsAlice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51. 010
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 16/11/2025SOMEBODY PAGE GEO! #spookylakesmonth www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caA 19th-century shipwreck near Toronto emerges almost untouched by time | CBC NewsAn exploration dive team seeking the century-old wreck of the Rapid City has instead found a much rarer prize: a virtually undisturbed vessel, potentially dating back to the first half of the 19th cen... 010
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The more US healthcare workers I talk to the more I feel that we 🇨🇦 must urgently ensure we are not relying on governance norms (not laws) as guardrails. Even mostly normal politicians in Canada can't be trusted with the power of the Notwithstanding Clause, and then there's Danielle Smith. 020
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I propose a new version of murphy’s law that me and my #disabled friends can really relate to, let’s call it Gimpy’s law: as soon as you’ve seen the specialist, you waited months to see you will develop a new troubling symptom that you should tell them about the very next day. 030
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Dear 🇨🇦dairy industry: what do you have against egg nog lovers? Have we hurt you somehow? Why do you give us eggnog three days before Thanksgiving and then take it away again until Christmas?media.tenor.coma little girl is crying and smiling with the words " i 'm okay " above herALT: a little girl is crying and smiling with the words " i 'm okay " above her 010
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Thanks @bcgeu.bsky.social for all you do in the public service and also to one of you who helped scoop me back up and into my wheelchair when I bit it right in front of your picket line at Canada Place today. I barely even had a chance to see who it was. ❤️ #solidarity #kindness 120
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 05/07/2025@carnivalcruise.bsky.social so far your accessible stateroom on #carnivalencounter has been great but do you see any issues with putting life jackets on the highest shelf in the wheelchair accessible stateroom? 🤔🧐 060
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Attention CIA, if you ever want to torture a migraineur to do what you want, trap them in a public bathroom with a 4 year old playing with the air hand dryer. 😥 000
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Every day I see how people with spinal cord injuries re-learn their bodies & rebuild their lives. The community of peer support and information resources SCI BC offers is about lifting that load, helping us help each other to adjust, adapt and thrive. Help me fund our work: b.link/scib.linkHelp Jocelyn raise money for participating in 2025 Vancouver Half Marathon on June 22, 2025Living with a disability like spinal cord injury is a full time job all on its own. Nobody knows what it's like the way that people who live it. Every day I see how people with spinal cord injuries re... 000
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I just took this survey about primary care in Canada. If you live in Canada, I hope you will too! www.ourcare.caourcare.caWhat Primary Care Needs — OurCarePeople across Canada have defined a new standard of primary care. Read the final report. Take the quiz. Become an advocate. Help make their vision a reality. 021
Reposted by JocelynJonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social · 05/06/2025The union at the Canadian Press wire service says that some of its members "can no longer afford to live in the communities where they work and report." 47750
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025The OO leader has no reason to have an official residence, esp if their riding is Ottawa. The PM & GG have diplomatic roles & thus need official residences to host. Stornoway should become the PM residence henceforth & Sussex Drive should be renovated as guesthouse & OO can get a housing allowance. 020
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Way to go @permobilamericas.bsky.social for the worst product recall on the SmartDrive SpeedController. The "field action portal" (form) requires a US Zip code. The toll free line is only for US customers. Permobil Canada doesn't deal with customers. My vendor hadn't heard of the recall! 000
Reposted by JocelynJustin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025he should have done the hip flip 833368
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Woooooo! Phew. No conservative gov this time! #canpoli 020
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 28/04/20252/2 We vacuumed it up and sealed it in & we are waiting for it to die among all of the dirt and dust in the cannister of our vacuum cleaner. It’s pretty hard to get a photo of it. Alas, it is still alive. It’s about an inch long & chonky. Advice pls #hornet #wasp #bc 000
Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025A huge flying insect followed Tod in last night, and scared the shit out of the dog. It looks like a fluffy bumble bee attached to a hornet. It doesn’t look like an Asian #murderhornet, more like a European hornet. Interwebs say they aren’t known on #vancouverIsland. Any ideas? 1/2 #invasivespecies 110
Reposted by JocelynTod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 26/04/2025❤️❤️❤️ #nanaimo #nanaimoinfusion nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/04/26/i...nanaimonewsnow.com‘It’s been everything we hoped for:’ Nanaimo Infusion draws hundreds of visitors to mid-IslandNANAIMO - Visitors from all over the United States and around the world have touched down in the Harbour City ... 1617421