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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: Reasons for supporting end of restrictions | Capital Daily

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FP2UKfEWUAE6mg0?format=png&name=small

Description: Capital Daily on Twitter: "On Wednesday, we asked you, our readers, to share your thoughts about public health restrictions ending today, and you did not disappoint! Here's a breakdown of those responses: (Graphs: @brish_ti/Capital Daily)"

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Subject:   Vaccinations

Title: [BC Ferries says some delays and cancellations may occur this spring and summer] | Capital Daily

URL: https://twitter.com/CapitalDailyVic/status/1508578320564244483/

Description: Capital Daily on Twitter: "⛴️ BC Ferries says staffing this spring and summer will be limited by unexpected retirements, COVID-related factors such as vaccination requirements and limited international recruitment, and the long-standing worldwide mariner shortage. (📸: mhorsy/Instagram) / Capital Daily @CapitalDailyVic · Mar 28 Replying to @CapitalDailyVic It says it has policies in place to maximize deployment of current staff, but that some delays and cancellations may occur (especially if employees become ill, as in the Omicron wave). / Stay tuned later this week for an upcoming feature on the mariner shortage—part five of our series on #yyj's wider labour shortage, Pay Check."

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Subject:   BC Ferries Vaccinations

Title: Cancelled ferry sailings are a symptom of a longstanding problem in the marine industry. It’s only going to get worse. | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/bc-ferries-cancelled-sailings-mariner-shortage/

Description: Worker shortages are now endemic in the industry—but warnings started decades ago.

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Subject:   BC Ferries Collins, Mark Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Vaccinations Marshall, Deborah Washington State Ferries Topshee, Angus Royal Canadian Navy Calgary (Ship) Liebmann, Andrew McNeely, Eric Oram, Trevor Muñoz, Eduardo BC Ferry & Marine Workers' Union

Title: BC parents look to US pharmacies to find COVID vaccines for under-12 kids | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/bc-parents-vaccines-us-pharmacies/

Description: Children in BC are expected to be able to get vaccinated before the holiday season, but pharmacies in Washington are already vaccinating Canadian kids.

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Subject:   Vaccinations Cote, Elise Tillicum Community School Greater Victoria School District Jim’s Pharmacy Berner, Geoff Washington State Department of Health Health Canada Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Henry, Bonnie Interior Health Northern Health Island Health BC Vaccine Card Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health

Title: BC removing vaccine card, daily reports despite signs of 6th wave | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/bc-removing-vaccine-card-daily-reports-despite-signs-of-6th-wave/

Description: Cases and hospitalizations are ticking upward, but BC is staying the course by removing restrictions and data sharing.

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Subject:   BC Vaccine Card Vaccinations Province of British Columbia Wastewater Surveillance Island Health Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Henry, Bonnie Dix, Adrian National Advisory Committee on Immunization Helm, Britt Nanaimo Regional General Hospital Furstenau, Sonia

Title: Capital letters: COVID-19 mandates lifting in BC amid 6th wave | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/capital-letters-covid-19-mandates-lifting-in-bc-amid-6th-wave-capital-daily/

Description: As Canada’s top doctor announces the country is in a sixth wave of COVID-19, Capital Daily readers weigh in on the province’s decision to lift vaccine and mask-related mandates.

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Subject:   Tam, Theresa Henry, Bonnie Dix, Adrian BC Vaccine Card Vaccinations

Title: COVID-19 hospitalization data is being misunderstood as next wave begins: BC modelling group | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/covid-19-hospitalization-data-is-being-misunderstood-as-next-wave-begins-bc-modelling-group/

Description: The BC COVID-19 modelling group’s latest report highlights a mistake in the way people are interpreting the province’s COVID-19 hospitalization data, which appears to incorrectly indicate hospitalizations are declining.

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Subject:   BC COVID-19 Modelling Group BC Centre for Disease Control Otto, Sarah Vaccinations Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Long COVID Tan, Amy Times Colonist

Title: What we know (and don’t) about how COVID-19 affets racial minorities on Vancouver Island | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/covid-19-race-based-data-collection-vancouver-island-bc/

Description: Experts say collecting race-based data could help drive better public health decisions, but that isn't happening.

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Subject:   Cowichan Tribes Furstenau, Sonia First Nations Health Authority Island Health Ahousaht First Nation Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations Louie, Greg Heiltsuk Nation Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council Tŝilhqot'in National Government Tŝilhqot'in Nation Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Snuneymuxw First Nation Govender, Kasari Henry, Bonnie Kobayashi, Karen Brown, Boma BC Centre for Disease Control Gustafson, Réka

Title: Vancouver Island's race between variants and vaccines | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/covid-variants-vancouver-island/

Description: The Island has contained the variant cases that it knows of so far, but vaccination is still in the early stages.

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Subject:   Variants of Concern Vaccinations Alpha Variant Beta Variant Gamma Variant Island Health Benusic, Mike Henry, Bonnie Fraser Health Brunt, Howard Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Vancouver Coastal Health Simon Fraser University AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD Vaccine Interior Health Northern Health Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 Vaccine

Title: As death strikes coastal First Nations, communities talk of "thwarted" attempts to protect themselves | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/covid19-alert-bay-nuxalk-quarantine/

Description: With the Province ignoring calls for local travel bans that would bolster their efforts, even as remote First Nations see their first fatalities from the pandemic, some small coastal communities fear they won’t be able to hold off the tide for long.

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Subject:   Nuxalk Nation Webber, Wally Bertrand, Daniel Wuikinuxv Nation Heiltsuk Nation Kitasoo/Xai'xais Nation Central Coast Regional District Province of British Columbia BC Ferries Royal Canadian Mounted Police Farnworth, Mike 'Namgis First Nation Buchanan, Dennis Government of Canada Tallio, Mike

Title: Emails show Dr. Bonnie Henry knew of concerns over BC’s COVID-19 data and school exposures while publicly downplaying them | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/henry-stanwick-covid-school-exposures-emails/

Description: Internal emails show BC public health leaders, including provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, had concerns about the quality of COVID-19 transmission data collected in schools—and that those concerns persisted in private, months after officials had started making claims to the media and the public on a regular basis that the risk of transmission in schools was very low.

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie Capital Daily Burnaby Beacon Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Gustafson, Réka Daly, Patricia Brodkin, Elizabeth Galanis, Eleni Docking, Christine Interior Health Northern Health Vancouver Coastal Health Fraser Health Howe, Carolyn Greater Victoria School District Island Health Stanwick, Richard Hoyano, Dee British Columbia Teachers' Federation Greater Victoria Teachers' Association BC Centre for Disease Control Mooring, Teri Waldron, Winona Ventilation

Title: Updated: What the leaked COVID-19 report tells us about Vancouver Island | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/leaked-covid-19-report-vancouver-island/

Description: On Thursday, the Vancouver Sun published a pair of leaked internal BC Centre for Disease Control reports that show the province has been collecting information about COVID-19 transmission and vaccinations on a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood basis, along with other key pieces of data that experts and journalists have been requesting for months. This in-depth information has never been shared with the public.

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia Province of British Columbia Vancouver Sun BC Centre for Disease Control Henry, Bonnie Gustafson, Réka Vaccinations Fraser Health Island Health Leyne, Andrew Screech, David Variants of Concern Northern Health Alpha Variant Gamma Variant Karlen, Dean

Title: ‘Mass disabling event’: Advocates fear tsunami of long COVID patients as Omicron spreads unchecked | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/long-covid-omicron/

Description: There are still a lot of unknowns about the post-viral syndrome, and COVID long haulers are struggling to find support.

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Subject:   Willis, Jan Long COVID McGarva, Jonah Long COVID Canada WorkSafeBC Zeidler, Karina Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Tam, Theresa Henry, Bonnie Vaccinations Delta Variant Provincial Health Services Authority Goulding, Susie COVID Long-Haulers Support Group Canada

Title: Marginalized groups reeling from unequal financial impacts of COVID-19 restrictions in BC: report | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/marginalized-groups-covid-impacts/

Description: Women, racialized groups, recent immigrants, and young people feeling the brunt of the COVID-caused economic recession.

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Subject:   Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Ivanova, Iglika Economic Forecast Council Robinson, Selina Province of British Columbia Williams, Bruce Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce South Island Prosperity Partnership Greater Victoria Harbour Authority

Title: How local outdoor retailers are looking ahead to the future of the nature business | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/outdoor-retailers-future-nature-business/

Description: More people escaped into the outdoors this past year. Will that trend continue after the pandemic?

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Subject:   Boggs, Erin Robinson's Outdoor Store King, Matt BC Parks Ehrenberg, Al Gone Fishin'

Title: How safe is BC’s safe restart plan for Vancouver Island? | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/safe-restart-plan-vancouver-island-delta-variant/

Description: Uncertainties, questions, and data gaps continue to plague BC’s provincial restart plan as we inch closer and closer to pre-COVID life.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia Island Health Variants of Concern Otto, Sarah Stanwick, Richard Delta Variant BC Centre for Disease Control BC COVID-19 Modelling Group Fraser Health Vaccinations Henry, Bonnie Vancouver Coastal Health

Title: Staff limitations determine the pace of Island COVID booster shot rollout | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/staff-limitations-determine-the-pace-of-island-covid-booster-shot-rollout/

Description: School immunization programs are on pause, as staff are called to administer the bivalent shots at mass vaccination clinics.

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Subject:   Vaccinations Island Health Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Stevenson, Monica Influenza Henry, Bonnie Contandriopoulos, Damien Ventilation

Title: Victoria hospitals, long COVID clinic brace for summer wave of COVID-19 reinfections | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/summer-wave-covid-19-reinfections/

Description: New subvariants that can get past antibodies are on the rise in BC, while new research shows reinfections increase overall health risks.

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Subject:   Variants of Concern Island Health Long COVID Saanich Peninsula Hospital Unger, Jeff Otto, Sarah Omicron Variant Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Burn-Murdoch, John Victoria General Hospital Royal Jubilee Hospital Vaccinations National Advisory Committee on Immunization Henry, Bonnie Delta Variant BC Centre for Disease Control Olsen, Tyler

Title: The beginning of Vancouver Island’s fourth wave is here | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/the-beginning-of-vancouver-islands-fourth-wave-is-here/

Description: Every new case on the Island has for weeks been the faster-spreading Delta variant. Here's what that means.

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Subject:   Delta Variant Variants of Concern Otto, Sarah BC COVID-19 Modelling Group von Bergmann, Jens Interior Health Fraser Health Vancouver Coastal Health Vaccinations Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Alpha Variant Gamma Variant Karlen, Dean Island Health Henry, Bonnie Fisman, David

Title: Third Omicron wave will bring an onslaught of new COVID-19 patients by end of July: new expert report | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/third-omicron-wave-covid-19-bc-modelling-group-report/

Description: A predicted rise in cases driven by BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants could see 40 to 60 new hospital admissions per day.

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Subject:   Omicron Variant Variants of Concern BC COVID-19 Modelling Group Karlen, Dean Delta Variant Otto, Sarah Unger, Jeff Vaccinations Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Protect Our Province BC

Title: The Victoria physicist predicting the future of the pandemic | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/uvic-physicist-predicting-future-covid-pandemic/

Description: Dr. Dean Karlen has thus far accurately predicted which way the pandemic will go. We talked to him about how he's done it and what he expects now.

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Subject:   Karlen, Dean University of Victoria Henry, Bonnie Variants of Concern BC Centre for Disease Control Island Health Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Vaccinations Alpha Variant Beta Variant

Title: ‘We may have averted disaster’: Island COVID-19 cases decline but healthcare staff feeling the pressure | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/vancouver-island-covid-19-decline-healthcare-staff/

Description: A month after the first set of restrictions were introduced in BC, daily COVID-19 cases have dropped at a steady pace—but the province’s healthcare system is still struggling to manage the strains of the third wave.

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Subject:   Island Health Variants of Concern WorkSafeBC BC COVID-19 Modelling Group Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Vancouver Coastal Health Northern Health Dix, Adrian Doctors of BC Chow, Matthew Royal Canadian Mounted Police Farnworth, Mike BC Ferries Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 Vaccine Vaccinations

Title: Vancouver Island COVID-19 hospitalization rates on the rise, BC data shows | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/vancouver-island-covid-19-hospitalization-rates-rising/

Description: The latest data from the BCCDC shows COVID-19 hospitalization rates are on the rise in Island Health.

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Subject:   Island Health BC Centre for Disease Control Otto, Sarah Karlen, Dean Unger, Jeff Vaccinations Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Health Canada Bishop, Sandra Quadra Village Community Centre Benusic, Mike

Title: Vancouver Island is awash with Omicron. What are authorities doing to slow it? | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/vancouver-island-omicron-covid-fifth-wave/

Description: Data from other jurisdictions show the Island is in for a rough month to come, but authorities are still denying basic facts about the virus.

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Subject:   Variants of Concern Omicron Variant Henry, Bonnie Northgate Chuch University of Victoria Island Health Rapid Antigen Tests Vaccinations Contandriopoulos, Damien Stanwick, Richard University of Victoria | Centre for Athletics, Recreation and Special Abilities Province of British Columbia Dix, Adrian Health Canada National Advisory Committee on Immunization College of Pharmacists of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health BC COVID-19 Modelling Group Karlen, Dean BC Centre for Disease Control Protect Our Province BC Filiatrault, Lyne Gasperowicz, Malgorzata Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

Title: Emboldened by social media, Victoria businesses vow to fight vaccine passport | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/victoria-businesses-vaccine-passport-ivermectin/

Description: A lawsuit has been launched with “no chance” of winning while some clamour for horse medicine.

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Subject:   Sunnyside Cafe BC Vaccine Card Vaccinations Marshal, Brendan Social Media BC Businesses against Health Pass (Facebook group) Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Facebook Instagram Guidos Caffe Silletta, Paul Government of Canada Royal Canadian Mounted Police Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Gates, Bill World Health Organization Tam, Theresa Henry, Bonnie Greschner, Donna Galati, Rocco Wong, Lawrence Ivermectin Greenhawk Equestrian Sport Buckerfield's Food and Drug Administration Health Canada Govender, Kasari MacNeil, Kathy Horgan, John

Title: Victoria healthcare workers brace for Omicron’s impact on nearly full hospitals | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/victoria-healthcare-workers-brace-omicron-full-hospitals/

Description: Island Health is pleading with workers to take extra shifts, while some doctors and nurses say the province isn’t following the science on staff protection.

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Subject:   Island Health Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Tan, Amy Delta Variant Otto, Sarah BC COVID-19 Modelling Group Dix, Adrian Karlen, Dean University of Victoria Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Hinshaw, Deena Government of Canada Cowichan District Hospital Henry, Bonnie

Title: 'On the verge of mental and physical breakdown': Why a growing number of Victoria nurses are quitting | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/victoria-nurses-are-quitting/

Description: Victoria nurses cite short staffing, payroll issues, abuse as reasons for leaving the industry. Part 3 of our labour series, Pay Check.

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Subject:   Island Health BC Nurses' Union Grewal, Aman Dielwart, Cassandra Lane Dix, Adrian Province of British Columbia

Title: Behind the counter: How some Victoria restaurants are beating the labour shortage | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/victoria-restaurants-labour-shortage/

Description: The industry-wide labour shortage is putting more power in the hands of the employees, and the restaurants that adapt are surviving. Part six of our labour series, Pay Check.

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Subject:   Foster, Jen Bank of Canada Government of Canada Tostenson, Ian Weiler, Anelyse Quigley, Stephen Chorizo & Co. Green Cuisine Cunningham, Andy Living Wage for Families BC MNP Wild Cafe & Bistro Donaldson, Marla White Spot Boston Pizza Dewey, Jeremy Gogerla, Levi Coast Bastion Hotel Little, Marcia Unite Here (Local 40) Pan Pacific Vancouver Vancouver Island Regional Library Labour Disputes Reddit Handi Grill British Columbia General Employees' Union

Title: ‘Everything changed’: Victoria teachers, parents anxious about rising COVID-19 exposures in schools | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/victoria-rising-covid-19-exposures-schools/

Description: The level of anxiety among teachers and school staff in the Greater Victoria School District has also reached new highs during the third wave of the pandemic.

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Subject:   Burrough, Sarah Greater Victoria School District Howe, Carolyn Greater Victoria Teachers' Association South Park Family School Henry, Bonnie Vancouver Coastal Health Island Health Fraser Health Mooring, Teri British Columbia Teachers' Federation Variants of Concern Province of British Columbia Ventilation Vaccinations

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