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Description: In this webinar, Dr. Evan Fraser, Director of the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph, discusses what can be done to make our food systems more sustainable and resilient. He is also joined by a panel of local food system experts: Jennifer Woodland, CEO of Nuu-chah-nulth Seafood LP; Jen Cody, Executive Director of Nanaimo Foodshare Society; and Christopher “Farmer” Brown, a permaculturist, agricultural activist, entrepreneur and farming educator.
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Subject: Vancouver Island University
Group: Food Security
Creator: Fraser, Evan, Woodland, Jennifer, Cody, Jen, Brown, Christopher
Publisher: Vancouver Island University
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: Website content, Video recording
Date: 2020-10-16
Extent: 1:30:59
Description: VIU’s Engaged Citizens Speaker Series presents Food Security in the Age of COVID-19: Toward More Resilient Regional Food Systems
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Subject: Vancouver Island University
Group: Food Security
Creator: McGarrigle, Jenn
Publisher: Vancouver Island University
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: Media release
Date: 2020-09-28
Description: Island Health on Twitter: "For families with medically frail & immune-compromised children the simple act of buying healthy groceries can be a challenge during a pandemic. @HelpFillADream with help from our public health team are providing food to these families across the island. http://ow.ly/Wz2k50ATNmc"
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Subject: Island Health, Help Fill a Dream Foundation
Group: Community Organizations, Food Security , Supports for Youth, Children, & Families, Vulnerable Populations
Creator: Island Health
Publisher: Island Health, Island Health | @VanIslandHealth
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: Twitter post, Image
Date: 2020-08-10
Relation: ispartof:https://twitter.com/VanIslandHealth/status/1292869652444520450, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfEyGNuWkAA3Fxr?format=jpg&name=small
Description: Island Health on Twitter: "For families with medically frail & immune-compromised children the simple act of buying healthy groceries can be a challenge during a pandemic. @HelpFillADream with help from our public health team are providing food to these families across the island. http://ow.ly/Wz2k50ATNmc"
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Subject: Island Health, Help Fill a Dream Foundation
Group: Community Organizations, Food Security , Supports for Youth, Children, & Families, Vulnerable Populations
Creator: Island Health
Publisher: Island Health, Island Health | @VanIslandHealth
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: Twitter post, Image
Date: 2020-08-10
Relation: ispartof:https://twitter.com/VanIslandHealth/status/1292869652444520450, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfEyGNuWkAA3Fxr?format=jpg&name=small
Description: Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank on Twitter: "It's the start of #nationalvolunteerweek and we sure ❤ our volunteers at Loaves & Fishes! In 2020, despite the pandemic, 707 incredible people volunteered preparing, sorting and distributing food. #grateful #Nanaimo #VancouverIsland #PortHardy #givewherewelive"
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Subject: Loaves & Fishes Community Food Bank
Group: Community Organizations, Food Security
Creator: Loaves & Fishes Community Food Bank
Publisher: Loaves & Fishes Community Food Bank, Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank | @VILoavesFishes
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: Twitter post, Image
Date: 2021-04-19
Relation: ispartof:https://twitter.com/VILoavesFishes/status/1384181261426585609
Description: The online marketplace continues to grow as more people turn to shopping local, from home.
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Subject: Cowichan Valley Co-operative Marketplace, Pawlowski, Derrick, Farm Table Inn, Zoom
Group: Business Affairs, Economy, & Sustainability, Food Security
Creator: Ronson, Jacqueline
Publisher: The Discourse
Coverage: British Columbia--Cowichan Valley, British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: News media
Date: 2021-02-03
Description: A food, farming and climate change virtual summit to explore ways to build resilience into the central Vancouver Island food system.
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Subject: Zoom, Transition Nanaimo, Loaves & Fishes Community Food Bank, Cascadia Seaweed, Young Agrarians, Brown, Chris, Kuramoto, Connie, Nanaimo Foodshare Society, Dover Bay Secondary School, Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools, City of Nanaimo
Group: Food Security
Creator: Transition Nanaimo
Publisher: Transition Nanaimo
Coverage: British Columbia--Nanaimo, British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: Blog post
Date: 2021-02-05
Description: In the Central and Northern Vancouver Island region, 39 programs were supported through United Way British Columbia to help people through the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.
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Subject: United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island
Group: Community Organizations, Food Security
Creator: United Way British Columbia
Publisher: United Way British Columbia
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island , British Columbia--Denman Island
Format: Website content
Date: 2022-08-19
Description: B.C. health officials say that approximately 1,000 food production workers on Vancouver Island will soon receive their first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
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Subject: Vaccinations, AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD Vaccine, Henry, Bonnie
Group: Food Security , Vaccinations
Creator: CTV News Vancouver Island
Publisher: CTV News Vancouver Island
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: News media
Date: 2021-03-18
Description: The province is committing up to $2 million to expand the BC Food Hub Network to Vancouver Island. The network is designed to bolster food security, while helping food and beverage producers grow their business by providing shared-use processing facilities, equipment, expertise and other resources. The funding announced March 2 will be used for three new food hubs in Victoria, Cowichan Valley and Bowser.
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Subject: BC Food Hub Network, Province of British Columbia, Popham, Lana, Vancouver Island University, Vancouver Island University | Deep Bay Marine Field Station, Butterworth, Carl
Group: Food Security
Creator: Bender, Quinn
Publisher: CTV News Vancouver Island
Source: The Northern View
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island , British Columbia--Cowichan Valley, British Columbia--Bowser, British Columbia--Deep Bay, British Columbia--Oceanside, British Columbia--Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia--Greater Victoria
Format: News media
Date: 2021-03-03
Description: As the number of people infected with COVID-19 in British Columbia continues to increase, officials are urging everyone to stay home, remain calm and stop hoarding supplies.
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Subject: Colgate, Mark, Red Barn Market, Quality Foods
Group: Food Security
Creator: Strain, Brendan
Publisher: CTV News Vancouver Island
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: News media
Date: 2020-03-18
Description: Just as the money was raised quickly, Rapid Relief Fund donations have been distributed to those in need equally as fast. Below is a listing of all Rapid Relief Fund grants that have been approved by the Victoria Foundation’s Board of Directors.
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Subject: Victoria Foundation
Group: Community Organizations, Food Security , Supports for Youth, Children, & Families, Vulnerable Populations
Creator: Victoria Foundation
Publisher: Victoria Foundation
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: Blog post
Date: 2020-07-09
Description: Several Vancouver Island-based fish farms are helping donate roughly 200,000 meals to food banks across the province, according to the BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA). Island-based Mowi Canada West, Grieg Seafood BC, Cermaq Canada, Creative Salmon and Agassiz-based Golden Eagle Aquaculture are working together to donate roughly 60,000 pounds of salmon to local foodbanks amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Subject: BC Salmon Farmers Association, Mowi Canada West, Grieg Seafood BC, Cermaq Canada, Creative Salmon, Golden Eagle Aquaculture, Food Banks BC, St. Jean’s Cannery & Smokehouse, Hardy Buoys Smoked Fish, Aquatrans Distributors Inc.
Group: Food Security
Creator: Chan, Adam
Publisher: Vancouver Island Economic Alliance
Source: CTV News Vancouver Island
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island , British Columbia--Agassiz, British Columbia--Nanaimo, British Columbia--Port Hardy, British Columbia--Tofino, British Columbia--Ucluelet, British Columbia--Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia--Northern Vancouver Island
Format: News media
Date: 2020-04-29
Description: Flour and yeast are in slim supply and social media feeds are filling up with all kinds of luscious loaves as the tasty trend of bread-making is on the rise.
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Subject: Krantz, Greg, Newell, Colin, Grocery Trade
Group: Arts & Culture, Food Security
Creator: Charach, Kevin
Publisher: CHEK News
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: News media
Date: 2020-04-04
Description: Frustrated Vancouver Island commercial truck drivers — and their supporters — voiced their opposition to a vaccine mandate for commercial truck drivers who cross back into the country at the Canadian border by driving from Campbell River to Victoria on Sunday.
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Subject: Vaccinations, Lambert, Troy, Government of Canada, Ferguson, Jed, Trimarchi, Giancarlo, Grocery Trade, Canadian Trucking Alliance, American Trucking Association
Group: Food Security , Protests & Activism, Transportation, Travel, & Tourism, Vaccinations
Creator: Stoltz, Dean
Publisher: CHEK News
Coverage: Canada, United States, British Columbia--Vancouver Island , British Columbia--Delta, Ontario--Ottawa, British Columbia--Courtenay, British Columbia--Comox Valley, British Columbia--Campbell River, British Columbia--North Central Vancouver Island, British Columbia--Victoria, British Columbia--Greater Victoria, British Columbia--Bowser, British Columbia--Oceanside, British Columbia--Regional District of Nanaimo
Format: News media
Date: 2022-01-23
Description: A Vancouver Island egg producer/grader wants the corporate egg business to give consumers more transparency and choice. A blog post on the Farmer Ben’s Eggs website in early December questioned the branding of some eggs sold on the island as being island-produced when, in fact, many of the eggs originate off-island and perhaps even out-of-province.
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Subject: Woike, Jennifer, Burnbrae Farms Ltd., Island Eggs, Hudson, Margaret, Springford, Ross, Springford Farm, Farmer Ben's Eggs
Group: Business Affairs, Economy, & Sustainability, Food Security
Creator: Pearase, Jackie
Publisher: Country Life in BC
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island , British Columbia--Cowichan Valley, British Columbia--Nanoose Bay, British Columbia--Oceanside, British Columbia--Regional District of Nanaimo
Format: Blog post
Date: 2021-02-01
Description: A message from Kendall Gross, President.
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Subject: Island Savings, First West Foundation, Cowichan Green Community Society, Ladysmith Family and Friends Society, Rhino Labour, Reinhart, Greg
Group: Business Affairs, Economy, & Sustainability, Community Organizations, Food Security , Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Gross, Kendall
Publisher: Island Savings
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: Website content
Date: 2020-08-07
Description: Together with you, we’re able to make an incredible difference in the lives of people right here at home throughout the year. We do this by giving to causes and charities that help our communities thrive.
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Subject: Island Savings, First West Credit Union, Coalition of Neighbourhood Houses Capital Region, Cowichan Green Community Society, Nanaimo Foundation, Salt Spring Island Foundation, Victoria Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Vancouver Island, Chemainus Theatre Festival, Port Theatre, Vancouver Island University, First West Foundation
Group: Community Organizations, Food Security
Creator: Island Savings
Publisher: Island Savings
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: Website content
Date: 2021
Description: In a year like no other, united we stepped up. A look at how you - our donors, community partners and funders - supported Vancouver Island communities in a time of crisis.
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Subject: United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island, Coastal Community Credit Union, Cowichan Valley Youth Services Society, RBC Foundation, Port Alberni Family Guidance Association, Nanaimo Hospice, Canadian Forces Base Comox, Harris Auto Group, Glenora Farm, Greenways Land Trust, Lavoie, Katharine, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Nanaimo Community Ministries, Salvation Army New Hope Centre, Government of Canada, Williams, Mary Catherine, Volunteer Campbell River, Hemmens, Erin, Deloitte Canada, OEC Group, Vancouver Airport Authority, British Columbia Automobile Association, Loaves & Fishes Community Food Bank, TransLink, BC Ferries, SCI Group Inc., BC Transit, Hussen, Ahmed, Madden, Signy, City of Nanaimo, Cowichan Valley Regional District, Hiiye'yu Lelum (House of Friendship) Society, Nanaimo Foodshare Society, Connect Warming Centre, Comox Valley Transition Society, Comox Bay Care Society, Cupelli, Andrea, LUSH Valley Food Action Society, Comox Valley Coalition to End Homelessness, Alberni District Secondary School, School District 70 Pacific Rim, Bread of Life Centre, Salvation Army Alberni Valley Ministries, Clayoquot Biosphere Trust, Ramsay, Michael, Hardy Bay Senior Citizen Society, Dyck, Leslie, Mount Waddington Family Literacy Society, Swain, Dustin, North Island Building Blocks, AVI Health and Community Services, Society for Equity, Inclusion and Advocacy, COVID-19 Cowichan Task Force for Vulnerable Populations
Group: Community Organizations, Food Security , PPE, Masks, Medical Supplies, & Equipment, Seniors, Elders, & Long-Term Care, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families, Vulnerable Populations
Creator: United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island
Publisher: United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island
Coverage: British Columbia--Vancouver Island
Format: Document
Date: 2021-08-11
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