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Jocelyn

@jocelynlt.bsky.social
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Disabled science nerd, spinal cord injury health wonk. Love trees, trails, and adaptive cycling. Maker of fibre things, gamer of games.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
dear 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
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Oh my gosh we got a bouquet @todmaffin.com! D’awwwww 💕 it’s our pleasure to be part of such a great community.
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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.
AI generated image of hundreds of old white people in a park on a sunny day with red lanyards around their necks, in a tightly packed crowd with Nanaimo harbour in the background. The crowd is gathered around a table and a man and woman in the foreground. The man has an obviously likeness to Tod Maffin, with brown hair, glasses and a blue shirt with French language writing on it, and the woman has short pink hair with bangs, with obvious likeness to me (Jocelyn)... except she's standing and no wheelchair in sight.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
hundreds of American health professionals have moved to British Columbia 🇨🇦 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. hires more than 400 U.S. health-care workers in 1-year recruitment blitz | CBC News
The 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.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What is real life anyway
US news from the guardian 
Trump calls voting by mail 'cheating' just days after voting by mail
President called practice 'mail-in cheating' at Monday event after voting in Florida House race via mail
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
You 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/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Just me and my alpaca blanket #fiberprep #spinning #alpaca #princegeorgefibreshed
The cut side of a mess of alpaca fur, brown and off-white, are draped over a small table with Jocelyn a pink hair to be spectacle woman sitting next to it. An early spring green lawn and St. are in the background.
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Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com · 03/03/2026
CMHA-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...
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Microsoft Forms
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
How 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?
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Come 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/@jocelynm
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Jocelyn (@jocelynm) / Hey.Café
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.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Hobo 💕 eh @todmaffin.com
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 01/03/2026
Another 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?)
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Even 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...
Header of a NBC News article titled:
Recent studies challenge
Kennedy's claims about vaccines, Tylenol and antidepressants. 
Subhead: The Trump administration has pledged to conduct its own studies, but research continues to contradict its claims.The latest finding came this month: After Food and Drug Administration officials questioned the safety of taking antidepressants during pregnancy, new research presented at an annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine found that pregnant patients who discontinued the medications nearly doubled their risk of mental health-related emergency room visits.
Other recent studies have also found that aluminum salts in vaccines aren't linked to major safety concerns and that Covid shots have a protective benefit for children.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Is this not what communities all over the Island (and the province) have been doing for the last several decades? See: Chemainus
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Friends 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.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
How Facebook ruined our friendship skills - and how you can fix it. vt.tiktok.com/ZSmCSyaPp/
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 23/02/2026
Posting 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."
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Mexico fights to dam "iron river" sending guns from U.S. to cartels
While 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.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Bad 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).
The Wall Street Journal Headline reads: Trump says he is sending hospital ship to Greenland. By Natalie Andrews and Sune Engel RasmussenPresident Trump said he plans to send a hospital ship to Greenland as part of his continuing effort to exercise control of the island in the Arctic, which he has said is vital for national security and contains mineral riches.
Late Saturday, Trump posted on social media that he is sending the ship "to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It's on the way!!!"Without naming the U.S. or Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Facebook on Sunday: "Happy to live in a country with free and equal access to universal healthcare. Where insurance and fortune don't determine whether you get proper treatment. The same applies in Greenland."
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 17/02/2026
Heads 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.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I 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
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
When your marketing manager is a boomer and your copywriter is a millennial TikTok user. (You were SO CLOSE!)
Brightly coloured background with Froot Loops cereal on it and Text reading if  nooooot Froot Loops, why shaped like them, Surrounded by six hovering colourful O shaped pieces of Froot Loops cereal
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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. 😜😆💕
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This 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
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
2 (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.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Describing 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...
“Recent polling shows separatist sentiment is not backed by the majority in Alberta, with 71% of residents polled wanting to remain in Canada. But nearly one in five people support the idea of Alberta becoming an independent country, according to polling this month by Leger.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/alberta-separatists-step-up-efforts-leave-canada-after-meeting-with-trump-2026-02-12/
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“[US] Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.” Frank Zappa (possibly, modifications is mine)
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Today 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.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
My coworker is sleeping on the job again.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
VANCOUVER, 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/
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Property Listings Archive - Right Fit
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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/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I 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…
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
One 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
Green laminated sign with boldface text: “upon your arrival to the clinic” please USE HAND SANITIZER (three icons of hand washing) Thank You.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
What 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...
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U.S. disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51 | CBC News
Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
SOMEBODY PAGE GEO! #spookylakesmonth www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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A 19th-century shipwreck near Toronto emerges almost untouched by time | CBC News
An 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...
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The 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.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I 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.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Dear 🇨🇦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?
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a little girl is crying and smiling with the words " i 'm okay " above her
ALT: a little girl is crying and smiling with the words " i 'm okay " above her
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Thanks @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
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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? 🤔🧐
A picture of a long narrow, cupboard with several large shelves, a cupboard door on the left with a mirror on it, and on the top shel, far above the reach of a wheelchair user, two lifejackets
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Attention 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. 😥
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Every 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/sci
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Help Jocelyn raise money for participating in 2025 Vancouver Half Marathon on June 22, 2025
Living 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...
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I just took this survey about primary care in Canada. If you live in Canada, I hope you will too! www.ourcare.ca
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What Primary Care Needs — OurCare
People 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.
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Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The 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."
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The 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.
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Way 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!
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
he should have done the hip flip
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Woooooo! Phew. No conservative gov this time! #canpoli
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
2/2 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
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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A 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
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 26/04/2025
❤️❤️❤️ #nanaimo #nanaimoinfusion nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/04/26/i...
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‘It’s been everything we hoped for:’ Nanaimo Infusion draws hundreds of visitors to mid-Island
NANAIMO - Visitors from all over the United States and around the world have touched down in the Harbour City ...
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