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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: Mass immunization clinics shifting to smaller & mobile | Island Social Trends

URL: https://islandsocialtrends.ca/mass-immunization-clinics-shifting-to-smaller-mobile/

Description: After eight months of intense work to immunize as many people as possible against COVID-19, Island Health is preparing to scale back mass immunization clinics.

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Subject:   Vaccinations Island Health,  Stanwick, Richard ,  Delta Variant Variants of Concern Henry, Bonnie

Title: [David Eby, Lisa Helps, and Dr. Richard Stanwick to provide update related to people experiencing homelessness and the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria] | October 1, 2021 | Ministry of Attorney General and Responsible for Housing | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAn0_izXoAA8riH?format=png&name=medium

Description: Gregor Craigie on Twitter: "C's Attorney General and Island Health will announce new measures in response to the rising number of COVID cases among the homeless. #bcpoli #yyj"

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Attorney General and Responsible for Housing Province of British Columbia Eby, David Helps, Lisa,  Stanwick, Richard ,  City of Victoria Island Health

Title: Inside the struggle to keep Victoria’s homeless safe from COVID-19 | The Tyee

URL: https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/04/02/Homeless-Victoria-COVID-19/

Description: The world has turned upside down for the street community, just as it has for the rest of the world. However, one difference is that many of those living in precarious circumstances are used to daily crises, which may make it more difficult for them to take COVID-19 as an imminent threat.

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Subject:   Tysick, Al Victoria Dandelion Society Cool Aid Society McKenzie, Grant British Columbia Toxic Drugs Crisis City of Victoria Topaz Park BC Housing Island Health Royal Athletic Park Helps, Lisa,  Stanwick, Richard ,  Emergency Management BC Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness

Title: [Questions about shelter spaces for COVID-positive unhoused people]

URL: https://twitter.com/brish_ti/status/1442592093709299712/

Description: Brishti Basu on Twitter: "Last week I asked @BC_Housing where unhoused COVID-positive can self-isolate in #yyj. They told me they’re working to find spaces Yesterday ppl werent allowed to isolate at Topaz Park. So once again, I asked where they’re supposed to go Sent them a yes or no question. Reply: / I also asked @CityOfVictoria mayor Lisa Helps where unhoused ppl can go without being forcibly displaced by bylaw officers. Her response contradicts everything frontline workers (see @TheBackPackPro1 ) have been saying. / Last week @VanIslandHealth CMHO Dr. Richard Stanwick said, "A tent is a not a place to isolate" as an argument against setting them up. So instead of a tent, I'm hearing a COVID-positive person had to sleep on a bench last night in the rain. #yyj / Stanwick's response was odd imo, considering there've been no outbreaks among the unhoused community in #yyj while most were living in tents, but cases are rampant now. Regardless, if a tent is not a safe space to isolate, will someone tell us where people are expected to go?"

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Subject:   BC Housing Topaz Park City of Victoria Island Health Helps, Lisa,  Stanwick, Richard

Title: Vancouver Island appears to turn a corner in coronavirus battle | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/island-appears-to-turn-a-corner-in-battle-with-covid-19-1.5419531

Description: The battle against COVID-19 on Vancouver Island is going better than it has since last fall, according to Dr. Richard Stanwick, Island Health’s chief medical health officer.

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Subject:   Island Health,  Stanwick, Richard ,  Henry, Bonnie Siegel, Solomon Pagliacci’s Vaccinations Brame, Meagan Saxe Point Day Care

Title: Inside the COVID isolation units for unhoused patients in Victoria | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/covid-isolation-units-unhoused-victoria/

Description: Last week, after COVID had been circulating in the unhoused community for a month, Island Health, BC Housing, and the City of Victoria announced 50 isolation beds would be coming to Victoria; 30 would be in existing shelter and housing facilities, while the other 20 would be in a new location expected to open at the beginning of November.

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Subject:   Travelodge by Wyndham Victoria,  Stanwick, Richard ,  Island Health BC Housing City of Victoria Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre Helps, Lisa Royal Jubilee Hospital Ross, Caitlin Victoria Cool Aid Society SOLID Outreach Society Irvine, Josh Ottosen, Niki The Back Pack Project Eby, David

Title: COVID cases surge in Victoria temporary housing—but residents and staff say they have only ‘whispers and rumours’ for information | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/covid-victoria-unhoused-temporary-housing/

Description: One housing worker says facilities aren’t prepared for outbreaks. The province, meanwhile, has released no information.

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Subject:   Johnson, Jerri Paul's Motor Inn Province of British Columbia Muncey Place Travelodge by Wyndham Victoria Johnson Street Community BC Housing PHS Community Services Society Our Place Society Island Health,  Stanwick, Richard ,  Houston, Kelvin Capital City Center Hotel Scott, Michael McKenzie, Grant Daly, Julian Perkins, Shae Beacon Hill Park Vaccinations Island Health Vax Van Red Cedar Cafe

Title: Leaked documents show 225 COVID-19 cases among Victoria’s unsheltered population | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/leaked-documents-covid-19-cases-victorias-unsheltered-population/

Description: A total of 225 people living in shelters and on the streets in Victoria have tested positive for COVID-19 throughout the first three weeks of September, according to a pair of internal public health documents leaked to Capital Daily.

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Subject:   Island Health,  Stanwick, Richard ,  BC Housing City of Victoria McKenzie, Grant Our Place Society Portland Housing Society Johnson Street Community Victoria Chinatown Care Centre Sunset Lodge Salvation Army

Title: Omicron is upending Vancouver Island hospitals and schools | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/omicron-is-upending-vancouver-island-hospitals-and-schools/

Description: Health workers say they’re stretched past the breaking point, while teachers feel their concerns are ignored.

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Subject:   Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Island Health Royal Jubilee Hospital Victoria General Hospital,  Stanwick, Richard ,  Henry, Bonnie Gagnon, Marilou Rapid Antigen Tests BC COVID-19 Modelling Group Karlen, Dean Whiteside, Jennifer Greater Victoria School District Waldron, Winona Cowichan Valley School District Greater Victoria Teachers' Association

Title: ‘This was the worst case scenario’: No plan for COVID-positive unhoused people in Victoria | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/worst-case-scenario-covid-positive-unhoused-people-victoria/

Description: Bylaw officers seized tents and supplies for sick people, while authorities wring hands over lack of options.

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Subject:   Island Health BC Housing City of Victoria,  Stanwick, Richard ,  Topaz Park Ottosen, Niki The Back Pack Project Perkins, Shae Helps, Lisa Royal Jubilee Hospital Sobering & Assessment Centre Province of British Columbia Beacon Hill Park

Title: 50 new isolation beds to open for homeless people in Victoria as COVID-19 spreads | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/b-c-attorney-general-victoria-mayor-to-provide-update-on-covid-19-in-homeless-community-892874/

Description: The province will fund approximately 50 new spaces for unhoused people with COVID-19 to isolate in Greater Victoria, B.C.’s attorney general announced alongside Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps Friday.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia Eby, David Helps, Lisa BC Housing Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre Island Health City of Victoria,  Stanwick, Richard ,  Vaccinations Henry, Bonnie

Title: Here are the most vaccinated communities on Vancouver Island | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/here-are-the-most-vaccinated-communities-on-vancouver-island-806399/

Description: The Saanich Peninsula is leading the way when it comes to first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Vancouver Island, according to data from the BC Centre for Disease Control.

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Subject:   Vaccinations BC Centre for Disease Control Island Health,  Stanwick, Richard ,  Henry, Bonnie Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine

Title: The Harbour supervised consumption service goes mobile in response to COVID-19 needs | April 1, 2020 | Island Health

URL: https://www.islandhealth.ca/news/news-releases/harbour-supervised-consumption-service-goes-mobile-response-covid-19-needs/

Description: People in the 900 block of Pandora will continue to receive essential life-saving services during the dual public health emergencies of the overdose crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Subject:   Island Health Health Canada,  Stanwick, Richard ,  The Harbour City of Victoria BC Housing Topaz Park Royal Athletic Park BC Emergency Health Services Lookout Health and Housing Society Society of Living Illicit Drug Users AVI Health and Community Services PHS Community Services Society Victoria Cool-Aid Society

Title: 50 new isolation pods coming for Victoria’s unhoused, COVID-positive population | Victoria News

URL: https://www.vicnews.com/news/50-new-isolation-pods-coming-for-victorias-unhoused-covid-positive-population/

Description: 50 new self-isolation pods will be available to Victoria’s unhoused, COVID-positive population by early November.

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Subject:   Eby, David Island Health City of Victoria,  Stanwick, Richard ,  Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre Hoyano, Dee Vaccinations Helps, Lisa

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