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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 · 15/04/2026

I've never seen him with jeans like those with the sandblasting in the front!

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

EXACTLY. The crowd who came last year was not universally white and retired but you'd think so looking at this image.

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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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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

oh believe me, I'm aware! It's such a cool program - I asked Province of BC and VanCity when they were offering e-bike rebates if they would do similar for e-handcycles because of it. (they said yes, but their rebate is a drop in the bucket given the cost of e-handcycles)

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Please feel free to give SCI BC's Infoline a call if you'd like help tracking down a wheelchair that suits you. 1-800-689-2477 or info@SCI-bc.ca. Monday-Friday 9am-5pm. I'd also suggest you contact Fraser Health's home care svc - 1-855-412-2121 to connect with an OT and other support.

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hey there! If it's for a shorter term issue, reach out to the Red Cross who can loan you a wheelchair at no cost for up to 3 months (often renewable if you still need it). Closest one to NW is in Burnaby on Edmonds. 604-522-7092. you just need a referral from a doc, OT or social worker.

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Thank you for your attention to this matter

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The island needs more and better transit and island rail ASAP.

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Both - I learned to crochet as a kid, learned knitting in my early 30s. I use them for different things. Crochet seems better for toys & blankets and knitting seems better for clothes & accessories. I knit hats and sweaters and socks most often. I’ve crocheted a few blankets for family as well.

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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 · 04/03/2026

You guys - send help… this alpaca blanket is never ending.

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

2/2 Steph Cadieux has already followed up with AC Vacations on this we have heard, and Tod and I are speaking with ACV a couple of weeks from now to talk about how to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else. But what incentive do they have to follow the law without consequences?

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Completely agree. Having an advocate and policymaker has been essential to the Accessible Canada Act’s development, but it is not succeeding if a champion is still necessary to get basic compliance with the law from the corporate sector. 1/2

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I love those, I wish they were vegetables. They look like they would have a nice crunch.

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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 · 03/03/2026

It doesn’t matter how it is compared to others. It matters what it feels like to you. At least it’s not syphilis, right?

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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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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

That’s one interesting thing about churros, unique dachshund mutt body. Her front legs are shortened and she doesn’t have the range of motion at the shoulder that Gertie did so she can’t properly hug. 😢

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I may have to bill @coffeestainnorth.bsky.social for the eye drops and liquid sustenance that @todmaffin.com now requires for the hours of focus on this game though. No regrets.

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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 Rasmussen

President 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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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

We had this same issue in 2023 with WestJet, and that was before they were bought by private equity firm in 2025.

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

THIS. Or ensure the financial incentives are there.

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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

It shouldn’t take social media shaming to get fair treatment and accessibility from a biz like AC Vacations. I long for the accessible Canada act to be fully realized. This was a frustration, an extra tax on disablity. For some, it’s access to your own home or the ability to support your family.

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

2/2 …at least we have someone who has cultivated those relationships and has the weight of gov behind her to deal with this problems their non compliance causes.

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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 · 18/02/2026

I’m really sorry to hear that your coworkers and team were less than supportive.

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Jocelyn @jocelynlt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Have you been able to find anything helpful on this, for example, on the heart and stroke foundation website? If not, feel free to give the Spinal Cord Injury BC infoline line a shout. We love finding new resources like this. 1800-689-2477 (text or call) or info@sci-bc.ca

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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

2/x … & in Trump’s America, any company is vulnerable to legal action if they don’t do what he wants. We need to see Canada and other countries tighten laws about data privacy and tech sovereignty so that there’s a market for made in Canada social platforms and tech infrastructure to choose!

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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

Sure! I’m connected on the accessibility side as well, but always happy to have help. Last time, Stephanie Cadieux, our chief accessibility officer, got on the case since solved it for us, but we were trying to avoid having to sic the big dogs on it this time. I’m on LinkedIn, Pls tag me.

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