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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: [Listener thanks Adam Stirling for encouraging him to get vaccinated] | CFAX 1070

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E__EDOEVkAgoJ8i?format=png&name=900x900

Description: Adam Stiring on Twitter: "This just might be the best text message I've ever gotten. Thank you, #yyj. Thank you Kevin. Thank you everyone. We are going to get through this, and it will be because of all of you."

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Subject:   Vaccinations Royal Roads University Island Health Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Stirling, Adam

Title: [Image 2: Victoria Cool Aid Society mobile health unit offering vaccinations in Centennial Square]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBm5sbPVkAEVWLW?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Great to see the @VicCoolAid mobile health clinic in Centennial Square right now helping folks get vaccinated. Good work everybody! #yyj 👍🏻"

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Subject:   Vaccinations Victoria Cool Aid Society Centennial Square

Title: [Image 1: Victoria Cool Aid Society mobile health unit offering vaccinations in Centennial Square]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBm5scHVQAA0vzY?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Great to see the @VicCoolAid mobile health clinic in Centennial Square right now helping folks get vaccinated. Good work everybody! #yyj 👍🏻"

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Subject:   Vaccinations Victoria Cool Aid Society Centennial Square

Title: [Logging protest roadblock in Victoria with "We will let emergency vehicles through sign"]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIwRz7JWYAI3rX_?format=png&name=small

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "There they are (sent from a listener) #yyj I like that sign. Progress."

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Subject:   Logging Protests and Blockades

Title: "Counter protestors against the Freedom Convoy have blocked the bridge on the Trans Canada Highway coming into town, just before Tillicum Road." | Victoria Buzz

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK29kJjVIAAWg-w?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "This looks like something. Full credit to @victoriabuzzes #yyj https://facebook.com/126545880826277/posts/2121342688013243/?d=n"

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Subject:   Trans-Canada Highway

Title: [Convoy organizer backs away from organizer role]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOaeEjNVUAAniM5?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Update: One of the Vancouver Island convoy organizers has issued a statement, saying she’s quitting, citing “recent events and in fighting,” as policing bills pile-up in @CityOfVictoria due to the convoy’s persistent threats of unlawful activity #yyj #bcpoli"

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Title: "Rooster River Run"

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

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Update: If this is an elaborate ruse to get @vicpdcanada to drop their guard, they're putting a lot of effort into it. Poster for this Sat's convoy indicates it's heading *away* from Victoria (starts in Saanich), consistent w/ Ron Clark's comments earlier this week. #yyj #bcpoli / Meanwhile, @vicpdcanada red zone for James Bay remains in place in case this is another deception (convoy participants on @Zello last week were advising how to lie to defeat checkpoints. One failed, then tried to 4X4 across Beacon Hill) #yyj #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Clark, Ron Victoria Police Department

Title: "'We are one' at the Victoria legislature"

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FP6IhgcaIAIO9DA?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Convoy Update: Christian Michael McCay, who told followers March 25 to stop honking in #yyj after a two-hour meeting w/ @vicpdcanada , is advising his followers that the “blockades” protecting James Bay have been removed in advance of today’s convoy. #bcpoli"

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Subject:   McCay, Christian

Title: [Vaccine coverage progress by LHA:] Vancouver Island | March 30, 2022 | BC Centre for Disease Control

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPH6yP1WYAYkmyn?format=png&name=medium

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "By the way, according to the @CDCofBC , adults 18+ in Greater Victoria are at ***99%*** coverage for at least one dose of the vaccine. Unity: We Already Built It ™️. You're welcome #yyj http://bccdc.ca/health-professionals/data-reports/covid-19-surveillance-dashboard"

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Subject:   BC Centre for Disease Control Vaccinations

Title: "I’m told this is a normal sized crowd opposing vaccine mandates and it’s totally normal to have crowds this size."

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQFut0SagAE8FOj?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "I’m told this is a normal sized crowd opposing vaccine mandates and it’s totally normal to have crowds this size. #yyj #cdnpoli"

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Subject:   Stirling, Adam Vaccinations

Title: "In case anybody's curious about where all the covid cases in #yyj are occurring"

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1441039587590213636/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "In case anybody's curious about where all the covid cases in #yyj are occurring: exactly where we would expect... https://bccdc.ca/health-professionals/data-reports/covid-19-surveillance-dashboard"

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Subject:   BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: [Vaccination rates (second dose) for 12+ in Greater Victoria] | December 23, 2021

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1474047876804272128/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "In the end, you did a hell of a job getting ready for omicron #yyj. Double vaccination coverage for 12ys+ looks like this: Gordon Head: 98% Oak Bay: 97% Royal Oak: 95% N Saanich: 94% James Bay: 94% C Sannich: 93% Downtown: 93% Langford: 93% Metchosin: 91% We haven't lost yet.."

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Subject:   Vaccinations Omicron Variant Variants of Concern

Title: "The Vancouver Island case curve is really something."

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1478867594488651776/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "The Vancouver Island case curve is really something. We seldom broke 100 per day for almost the entire pandemic. 566 new cases today. It won’t fit on the scale below for the CDC dashboard #yyj"

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Subject:   Island Health BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: [Remarks on Zello chat suggest that the Victoria Police Department supports the truck convoy of protesters]

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1492677037575708672/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "The trucker @Zello chat is claiming @vicpdcanada members have told them that they support the protesters in their fight and that @vicpdcanada does not agree with @JustinTrudeau. Remark made by user Tee Kay 2022 at 5:45pm. #yyj / “And they weren’t impressed when Trudeau’s words… used the W-A-R word. So they don’t support those words either…” Other user: “You can tell there are so many cops who don’t want to do what they are having to do…” #yyj There’s some wiggle room there for interpretation. / That makes me uncomfortable. / The channel has suddenly gone dead quiet again. #yyj"

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Subject:   Victoria Police Department Vaccinations BC Vaccine Card Trudeau, Justin

Title: [Quotes from and comments about the Victoria truck convoy Zello chat]

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1497674900554665987/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "“Hey guys on Humboldt, there’s people throwing eggs from the building” — just heard on the #yyj trucker @Zello . / “Watch for the anti-protesters on Fort street at Douglas at the side” #yyj convoy @zello \ The best channel #yyj / Trucker warning the @Zello channel about @vicpdcanada deployed on bikes at Government & Superior to not honk her horn. Advises information recorded by police. This is the 2nd mention in the channel advising police are warning participants #yyj / (Council fast tracked this change to the bylaw on Thursday. It’s real. The convoy doesn’t know that though. They are debating in the channel whether @vicpdcanada is lying to them. “Section 7.02 Bylaw” one of them says. #yyj) / They are sending each other text of the bylaw because some suspect @vicpdcanada is bluffing about the ability to ticket them for honking. It’s been all warnings so far, and they wonder if it’s because the bylaw isn’t real. #yyj / The trucker @Zello #yyj is even more bonkers than usual today. They’re talking about how all the vaccinated people are going to “start get sick and dying…” and then we’ll stop wagging our fingers at them. One of them says they saw somebody drop dead from the vaccine last week. / “What are they trying to do? Like what the heck? Kill us all off?” “Bingo,” another answers. This is so insane… #yyj / Now they’re trading stories about being mistreated in hospital… They suggest there’s a conspiracy at the hospital involving false reporting of numbers or something. It’s difficult to track. Anyway, safe to say the reason for the concerns is not something that is real. #yyj"

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Subject:   Victoria Police Department City of Victoria Vaccinations

Title: "Every death is a tragedy, but after 2 years, what we did in #yyj is *incredible*"

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1502418326403776512/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Every death is a tragedy, but after 2 years, what we did in #yyj is *incredible* We saved *thousands* of lives. 227 deaths among 870,000 people. @VanIslandHealth = 261 deaths / million ppl. USA = 2,998 / million. TEN TIMES more. We avoided 90% of fatalities, statistically / The math is so insane it looks like it can’t be real. But it is… We saved almost everybody. Our community became one of the safest on the face of the earth. It might be the most important thing we’ll ever do. I treated it like it will be for me. It was do or die. And we did it / Sorry for yelling about Covid for literally 2 years. Some people say my (perhaps pathological?) focus & determination helped them find their own resolve to keep pushing. If that’s true, it’s the best compliment I’ll ever get. I just didn’t want to bury the people I cared about… / I recorded this 721 days ago… Thank you to everybody who stuck around since then. I’ll never forget it. #yyj"

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Subject:   Island Health BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: [Truck convoy coordinating on Zello app]

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1502739712909332480/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Anybody who wants to listen to the truck convoy coordinate: the convoy is on @Zello channel “Ladd 2” #yyj"

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Subject:   Zello

Title: [Comments about speakers at protest outside the BC Legislature]

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1502780401710145539/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Currently outside @BCLegislature ⁩: a person dressed as a deer says “me and ⁦@jjhorgan ⁩ were good friends.” She is holding a dart board. “Do I look like a crazy woman to you,” she asks, referencing a recent hospital visit to Royal Jubilee with ⁦@WestshoreRCMP ⁩. / “This is probably the poorest turnout I’ve seen in a long time,” she says, admonishing the small size of today’s crowd. She is now talking about the World Economic Forum and a digital ID system. “Inform yourself,” she implores. #bcpoli / Next speaker says a large number of people they know have suddenly died in the last year after taking the vaccine. “My mother in law died of a massive heart attack in front of her whole family,” shortly after taking the vaccine right before Christmas. This is a common theme. / Anyway, if you want to listen to what these speakers actually say at these events (it’s BONKERS), there’s a livestream running / God. She’s accusing people of not having a soul. Getting aggressive in her attacks against Dr Bonnie Henry. “Bonnie murdered my mother!!,” an unhinged man in the crowd cries out. “Shame on you, mainstream media,” the increasingly agitated woman shouts. “Blood on your hands!” / The current speaker is now asking the crowd to look up “Auschwitz” while speaking to the smaller than usual trucker convoy crowd outside the @BCLegislature . “It’s not the showers we take, folks…” They are getting ready to march through downtown. #yyj / “That lady who calls herself a doctor? Shame on you!” a man who claims to have been paralyzed for 3 years after receiving a routine inoculation for travel purposes years ago. “Let’s go for a march,” says. They are about to disrupt traffic. They are very excited to do this."

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Subject:   Vaccinations Henry, Bonnie

Title: [Message to Victoria truck convoy protestors on Zello chat regarding interacting with police officers]

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1505291117331316737/

Description: Adam Stiring on Twitter: "We’ve reached the part of today’s protest where the @Zello Chat is distributing links to file complaints with the @iiobc for not letting the convoy into James Bay to harass people for hours. #yyj #bcpoli / Oh this is just *precious*. Yes, please complain to the Police Complaint commissioner about this. Please make sure you identify yourself and what you were trying do #yyj #bcpoli / (The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not allow you to park wherever you want. Even if you are parking to attend a nearby protest)"

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Subject:   Victoria Police Department Manak, Del Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner of British Columbia

Title: [Damage caused by truck in Beacon Hill Park]

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1505563872337354753/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "So I went out to Beacon Hill Park this morning to see the spot where the convoy truck tried to bypass @vicpdcanada checkpoints to get into James Bay (so dumb) and the truck *almost* made it… those are *deep* cuts in the topsoil… #yyj #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Beacon Hill Park Victoria Police Department

Title: [Comments on City of Victoria's response to damage in Beacon Hill Park]

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1505610513853550592/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Total silence from @CityOfVictoria over this damage to Beacon Hill Park by members of the truck convoy. Maybe it’s awkward because the city totally caved to the truckers demands less than 24 hrs before, announcing re-hiring of all unvaxxed staff, validating them? #yyj #bcpoli"

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Subject:   City of Victoria Beacon Hill Park Vaccinations

Title: [Truck convoy heading to Vancouver to protest at Trudeau event]

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1508571955296817154/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Update: The convoy is traveling to Vancouver to protest Trudeau at an event planned for tomorrow. Camper trailers not usually relocated moved out of the Shawnigan Lake freedom camp this morning, and went to the @BCFerries terminal. Date of return: unknown #yyj #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Trudeau, Justin Fairmont Hotel Vancouver

Title: "Convoy update"

URL: https://twitter.com/Adam_Stirling/status/1512796657687040002/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Convoy Update: Christian Michael McCay, who told followers March 25 to stop honking in #yyj after a two-hour meeting w/ @vicpdcanada , is advising his followers that the “blockades” protecting James Bay have been removed in advance of today’s convoy. #bcpoli / After he left the Island, revealing an organizer had spat in the face of a Freedom Camp neighbor, causing the camp to be forced to leave, Ron Clark on Facebook discouraged attending the @BCLegislature Saturdays: “I’m going to say it. You’re beating a dead horse…” #yyj #bcpoli / In the video, Clark also seemingly referenced McCay’s Saturday event (which is called “We Are One”) at the @BCLegislature as one of “four or five events going on at the same time,” in different Vancouver Island locations that would make the movement look “small.”"

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Subject:   Victoria Police Department Clark, Ron McCay, Christian

Title: [Ron Clark shares plans to take convoy to Campbell River]

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1505929241019371521/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Uodate: Ron Clark in a video viewed 40,000 times says next week’s convoy he leads will NOT COME to Victoria. Citing @vicpdcanada ’s response this weekend, Clark says the convoy will head north to Campbell River instead. After that, it will go elsewhere on the island #yyj #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Clark, Ron

Title: [Ron Clark on Vancouver Island convoy:] "And now it looks like we're gonna have to find a new location."

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1506725690195939333/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Update: Convoy participant Ron Clark in a Facebook livestream an hour ago: “and now it looks like we’re gonna have to find a new location,” after “the media” publicized the location of the Freedom Camp in Shawnigan Lake yesterday. #yyj #bcpoli / Ron Clark & partner Amanda discussing where they might reside now that the location of their Shawnigan Lake area freedom camp has been publicized. “It’s free to park from 7pm to 7am in @CityOfVictoria parks…” she says, incorrectly referencing the city’s policies. #yyj #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Clark, Ron

Title: [Ron Clark gives instructors to Vancouver Island convoy]

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1507459803919966214/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "'I don’t personally want to go to jail for idiots down here not following the rules and the regulations of the roads…' Ron Clark just live-streamed on Facebook after a 'two-hour' meeting with police. 'There is no honking in Victoria,' he instructs his followers. #yyj #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Clark, Ron Victoria Police Department

Title: "For anybody who’s curious, there were 7 vehicles in the southbound convoy today. Yes, just seven."

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1507792037327753217/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "For anybody who’s curious, there were 7 vehicles in the Southbound convoy today. Yes, just seven. Here’s a video of them being counted going under the Helmcken overpass, quietly. 👍🏻 #yyj #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Trans-Canada Highway

Title: [TikTok video by Robert Booth about Vancouver Island convoy]

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1507821938185424896/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Reception on south Vancouver Island has been mixed. Robert Booth (Alias: Rooster) told 'locals' who keeping 'givin us the finger' and 'screaming obscenities' on Friday: 'Your opinion doesn’t matter! You got nothing nice to say, shut up! And I love you guys…' #yyj #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Booth, Robert

Title: [Ron Clark shares that Nanaimo rally will be his last on Vancouver Island]

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1508614752783986693/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "'This weekend’s rally will be my last one on the island — for now,' Ron Clark of Alberta tells a Facebook livestream about this Saturday’s planned event in Nanaimo. 'I need need to get home and to take a breather. You know, just relax for a bit.' He looks weary #yyj #bcpoli."

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Subject:   Clark, Ron

Title: [Ron Clark leaves Vancouver Island]

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1511441459299250176/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "Truck Convoy Update: Ron Clark is on a Ferry: “So there you have it. We are officially moving. For all you trolls that don’t like us, we are leaving your Island…” He’s leaving my island. #yyj #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Clark, Ron

Title: [Ron Clark on protests in downtown Victoria: "You're beating a dead horse"]

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1512801347468345351/

Description: Adam Stirling on Twitter: "After he left the Island, revealing an organizer had spat in the face of a Freedom Camp neighbor, causing the camp to be forced to leave, Ron Clark on Facebook discouraged attending the @BCLegislature Saturdays: “I’m going to say it. You’re beating a dead horse…” #yyj #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Clark, Ron

Title: [Ron Clark comments on Vancouver Island protest events]

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1512808846820970498/

Description: In the video, Clark also seemingly referenced McCay’s Saturday event (which is called 'We Are One') at the @BCLegislature as one of 'four or five events going on at the same time,' in different Vancouver Island locations that would make the movement look “small.” #yyj #bcpoli

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Subject:   Clark, Ron McCay, Christian

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