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COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North)

Collected by: Vancouver Island University

Archived since: Mar, 2020

Description:

In March 2020 the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC) stated: "The deadly flu outbreak of 1918-19 is often called the ‘forgotten pandemic.’ Our responsibility now is to ensure the lessons of COVID-19 are not forgotten. Our collective efforts to capture and preserve the essential online elements of this unprecedented event are critical." (CARL-ABRC). The COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North) Web Archive reflects community experiences and responses to the pandemic in the region served by Vancouver Island University, documenting and supporting diverse aspects of scholarly inquiry, creativity, and community life. The Web Archive is intended to provide a body of information that will support scholarship, creativity, and study. Information rights related to web archiving include considerations of copyright and fair dealing, and of individual and community privacy. The following are among principles and resources that guide web archiving decisions: Ethics of care, for example in VIU Library’s Pledge to our user communities; OCAP® principles, and awareness of relationality and accountability to Indigenous communities, and potential impacts related to web archiving; Good practice and expert advice, emerging and accessed through communities of practice, e.g. the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC); and VIU Library, Evolution of Physical Collections: 2017-2021 VIU Library, Special Collections Guidelines (Under review 2020). Web archives are informed by available capture technologies and also by affordances of the content source; not all websites can be successfully crawled or rendered, and quality of archived versions varies. This project is supported by VIU's Special Funding for COVID-19 research projects and carried out in coordination with the University of Victoria’s COVID-19 Collection and the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition. Contact us at research.help@viu.ca with questions or for more information about content included in the Web Archive. [Working description 2021 April 6]

Subject:   Spontaneous Events Society & Culture Science & Health Vancouver Island COVID-19 (Disease)

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Title: Health, safety remain top priority for return to campus | August 24, 2021 | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/news_releases_2020-2024/2021AEST0053-001664.htm

Description: Students, faculty and staff at B.C.’s colleges and universities are being supported to come back together for in-person learning this fall with added health and safety measures ordered by the provincial health officer. A new mask mandate for college and university campuses follows the announcement that B.C. will be introducing a proof-of-vaccine requirement for some non-essential services, including on-campus.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training Province of British Columbia,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Kang, Anne

Title: Joint letter addressing student safety | December 2021

URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PXbVaXYabw1ySNbuFdiMzl1y-j4BlAZe1cpiTTPbzjQ/edit

Description: We, the undersigned, strongly urge the Provincial Health Officer to change the guidance issued to post-secondary institutions on December 21st, 2021, which "strongly recommend[s] continuation of on-campus instruction for post-secondary institutions in January 2022."

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Subject:   Alliance of BC Students Capilano Students' Union Langara Students' Union Kwantlen Student Association University of the Fraser Valley Student Union Society Simon Fraser Student Society Royal Roads University Student Association University of Victoria Graduate Students' Society Capilano University Langara College Kwantlen Polytechnic University University of the Fraser Valley University of British Columbia Graduate Student Society of UBC Vancouver Simon Fraser University Royal Roads University University of Victoria Omicron Variant Variants of Concern,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Kang, Anne ,  Northern Undergraduate Student Society University of Northern British Columbia

Title: Petition: Notify BC post-secondary of COVID-19 exposures | Change.org

URL: https://www.change.org/p/premier-john-horgan-notify-bc-post/

Description: We the undersigned faculty, students, staff, and community members of post-secondary institutions as well as concerned citizens and organizations call upon the Government of BC, the Ministry of Advanced Education, and BC Public Health Office to, Post notifications of any COVID 19 exposure, cluster, or outbreak event occurring on a post-secondary campus on the local Health Authority website as soon as possible, Work with post-secondary institutions to provide regular and timely notification of COVID-19 exposures, clusters, and outbreaks directly to all institutional community members while ensuring the privacy of any individual, Provide consistent procedures for all faculty, staff and students to notify their classes, colleagues, and fellow students of potential exposures, clusters, or outbreaks in their classrooms and workplaces.

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Subject:   Horgan, John Dix, Adrian,  Kang, Anne ,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Vancouver Island University Faculty Association Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health

Title: Petition to pause in-person classes in BC's universities and colleges | Change.org

URL: https://www.change.org/p/premier-john-horgan-petition-to-pause-in-person-classes-in-bc-s-universities-and-colleges/

Description: We the undersigned faculty, students, staff, and community members of B.C. public/private post-secondary institutions as well as concerned citizens and organizations call upon the Government of BC, the Ministry of Advanced Education, and BC Public Health Office to: Pause in-person classes until the end of January or later until a safe-return to indoor, crowded instructional environments is considered a low risk of exposure and/or infection to COVID-19; Consider implementing in 2022 a vaccine passport mandate for all B.C. PostSecondary classrooms (with the provision of remote accommodations for students/faculty unable to be vaccinated and/or tested); Ensuring the universal provision of proper ventilation(verifiable) and masking standards (N95) for future instruction during the pandemic on all B.C. campuses; Collect and publicly share data on any COVID-19 outbreaks or community outbreaks on/near B.C. College and University campuses.

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Subject:   Horgan, John Dix, Adrian,  Kang, Anne ,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Vaccinations BC Vaccine Card Ventilation

Title: UVic faculty, students call for vaccine requirement | Times Colonist

URL: https://www.timescolonist.com/uvic-faculty-students-calls-for-vaccine-requirement-1.24349459

Description: Some students and faculty members at the University of Victoria are calling for COVID‑19 vaccines to be mandatory on campus as the fall term nears and case counts rise.

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Subject:   University of Victoria Vaccinations Lowan, Emily Island Health Marks, Lynne University of Victoria Faculty Association Johnston, Karen Ventilation WorkSafeBC Camosun College Huelscher, Deborah Camosun Student Society Turcotte, Michel Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC,  Kang, Anne ,  Royal Roads University Simon Fraser University University of British Columbia University of Northern British Columbia,  Henry, Bonnie

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