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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: Expanded COVID-19 test site opens in Nanaimo amid case surge | CTV News

URL: https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/vancouver-island/2020/12/1/1_5212497.html

Description: Island Health has announced the opening of a new and expanded COVID-19 testing site in Nanaimo. The Vancouver Island University campus on Fifth Street hosts a larger and more weather-ready drive-thru collection site.

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Subject:   Island Health Vancouver Island University

Title: 911 dispatch apologizes to Victoria business after ignoring calls for help during COVID-19 protest | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/911-dispatch-apologizes-to-victoria-business-after-ignoring-calls-for-help-during-covid-19-protest-1.5768224

Description: Greater Victoria’s 911 dispatch service is apologizing to the staff of a downtown Starbucks after calls for help were ignored.

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Subject:   Starbucks Becker, Rich Bradley, Jasmine Victoria Police Department Hotel Grand Pacific James, Reid Horgan, John Helps, Lisa City of Victoria E-Comm 911

Title: Ahousaht First Nation completes full COVID-19 vaccination program | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/ahousaht-first-nation-completes-full-covid-19-vaccination-program-1.5329004

Description: A remote coastal First Nation near Tofino is celebrating the end of its COVID-19 vaccination campaign. According to the Ahousaht Chief Greg Louie, all 432 eligible community members over the age of 18 will have received a Moderna vaccine by the end of Monday.

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Subject:   Ahousaht First Nation Vaccinations Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Island Health Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations

Title: Anti-vaccine protester spat at Nanaimo nurse, RCMP say | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/anti-vaccine-protester-spat-at-nanaimo-nurse-rcmp-say-1.5571428

Description: A health-care worker on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic was spat at by someone protesting B.C.’s planned vaccine card Wednesday, according to Nanaimo RCMP. Mounties say a nurse reported that at protester spat at her during a large protest in front of the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.

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Subject:   Nanaimo Regional General Hospital Island Health Krog, Leonard Vaccinations BC Vaccine Card Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Title: Cowichan Tribes call for help after 2 new COVID-19 deaths | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/is-it-enough-no-cowichan-tribes-calls-for-help-after-2-new-covid-19-deaths-1.5314810

Description: COVID-19 may have arrived late in B.C.'s largest First Nation, but the pandemic's deadly presence is now there and leadership worry it's not going anywhere fast. This week, Cowichan Tribes leadership announced two new COVID-19-related deaths.

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Subject:   Cowichan Tribes Vaccinations Thompson, Derek Horgan, John Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Province of British Columbia

Title: Island First Nation considers RCMP, human rights investigations after COVID-based discrimination | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/island-first-nation-considers-rcmp-human-rights-investigations-after-covid-based-discrimination-1.5264394

Description: Leadership with Cowichan Tribes on Vancouver Island say they are not ruling out the possibility of taking serious complaints of racist and discriminatory behaviour to police.

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Subject:   Cowichan Tribes

Title: Island teachers want an extended winter break, province holds its ground | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/island-teachers-want-an-extended-winter-break-province-holds-its-ground-1.5224909

Description: As Vancouver Island saw a surge in new COVID-19 exposures at schools this week, several teachers' unions are renewing a call for new safety measures.

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Subject:   Nanaimo District Teachers' Association Greater Victoria Teachers' Association

Title: 'It can shut down and collapse units': Victoria's police union says department declared state of emergency due to Omicron | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/it-can-shut-down-and-collapse-units-victoria-s-police-union-says-department-declared-state-of-emergency-due-to-omicron-1.5730574

Description: The Victoria Police Department is taking a drastic step and declaring what amounts to a 'state of emergency' due to COVID-19 staffing concerns.

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Subject:   Victoria Police Department Victoria City Police Union Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Hollingsworth, Len Manak, Del Royal Canadian Mounted Police Manseau, Chris Winnipeg Police Service

Title: 'It does kill COVID': Vancouver Island grocery chain first in Canada to install UV cart cleaner | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/it-does-kill-covid-vancouver-island-grocery-chain-first-in-canada-to-install-uv-cart-cleaner-1.5188111

Description: When the front doors of the Quality Foods location in View Royal slide open, customers are greeted with something new and illuminating, literally. The Vancouver Island grocery store chain says it is the first in Canada to install an ultraviolet light grocery cart cleaning machine.

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Subject:   Quality Foods Grocery Trade

Title: Zaandam cruise ship passengers from Vancouver Island say they expect more COVID-19 deaths on board | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/it-puts-a-dagger-in-your-heart-vancouver-island-couple-aboard-cruise-ship-with-4-dead-amid-covid-19-outbreak-1.4871862

Description: A retired couple from a suburb of Victoria are trapped on a cruise ship with an outbreak of COVID-19 cases, and say they expect the situation to get worse.

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Subject:   Kirkham, David & Norma Zaandam (ship) Holland America Line

Title: 'It’s insane': COVID-19 concerns cause islanders to empty grocery store shelves | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/it-s-insane-covid-19-concerns-cause-islanders-to-empty-grocery-store-shelves-1.4852453

Description: Grocery stores across B.C. are in the midst of a shopping blitz as customers react, or possibly overreact, to announcements from provincial health officials regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Subject:   Grocery Trade Costco Hernandez, Christina Country Grocer Joordens, Steve Horgan, John Ikonen, Marie Thrifty Foods Sobeys Inc. Save-On-Foods

Title: Lake Cowichan council poised to ban river tubing due to COVID-19 | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/lake-cowichan-council-poised-to-ban-river-tubing-due-to-covid-19-1.4914224

Description: A popular summer pastime in the Cowichan Valley will likely be deflated because of the global coronavirus pandemic. Tubing on the Cowichan River near the town of Lake Cowichan will likely be banned after a council vote Monday evening.

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Subject:   Peters, Rod Town of Lake Cowichan

Title: Nanaimo COVID-19 surge connected to ill people not staying home: Island Health | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/nanaimo-covid-19-surge-connected-to-ill-people-not-staying-home-island-health-1.5307061

Description: Health officials say the concerning spread of COVID-19 in the Nanaimo region is largely connected to sick people going about their normal daily activities.

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Subject:   Island Health Allison, Sandra

Title: 'We've never seen numbers like these': BC Ferries sees historic drop in ridership amid travel advisories | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/people-are-definitely-getting-the-message-b-c-ferry-traffic-way-down-as-travel-advisories-take-effect-1.5201012

Description: A call from the provincial government to reduce non-essential travel in B.C. appears to be working.

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Subject:   BC Ferries

Title: 'They were directly in harm's way': Victoria businesses report threats amid COVID-19 protest | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/they-were-directly-in-harm-s-way-victoria-businesses-report-threats-amid-covid-19-protest-1.5762055

Description: As thousands of anti-mask and anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate protesters voiced their views on the lawn of the legislature, several businesses say they were intimidated and harassed by members of the crowd.

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Subject:   Becker, Rich Steamship Grill Starbucks Hotel Grand Pacific Discovery Coffee Kennedy, Esther Victoria Police Department Manak, Del We Unify Canada

Title: UVic, Camosun College launch new COVID-19 innovations ahead of possible second wave | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/uvic-camosun-college-launch-new-covid-19-innovations-ahead-of-possible-second-wave-1.5036186

Description: Camosun College and the University of Victoria launch new COVID-19 innovations.

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Subject:   University of Victoria Camosun College Buckley, Heather Wastewater Surveillance Pani Energy Inc. Camosun Innovates Gale, Richard Island Health AP Plastics

Title: Vancouver Island conservation officers report surge in elk poaching | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/vancouver-island-conservation-officers-report-surge-in-elk-poaching-1.4909059

Description: Since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Vancouver Island conservation officers say they have tracked a troubling spike in Roosevelt elk poaching.

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Subject:   Sano, Robin British Columbia Conservation Officer Service

Title: Victoria Clipper suspends operations, dozens face layoffs | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/victoria-clipper-suspends-operations-dozens-face-layoffs-1.4857018

Description: Victoria’s direct link to Seattle will no longer sail, according to Clipper ferry officials.

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Subject:   Victoria Clipper FRS Clipper Gudgel, David Coho (Ferry) Black Ball Ferry Line Burles, Ryan

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