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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: Joint letter addressing student safety | December 2021

URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PXbVaXYabw1ySNbuFdiMzl1y-j4BlAZe1cpiTTPbzjQ/edit

Description: We, the undersigned, strongly urge the Provincial Health Officer to change the guidance issued to post-secondary institutions on December 21st, 2021, which "strongly recommend[s] continuation of on-campus instruction for post-secondary institutions in January 2022."

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Subject:   Alliance of BC Students Capilano Students' Union Langara Students' Union Kwantlen Student Association University of the Fraser Valley Student Union Society Simon Fraser Student Society Royal Roads University Student Association,  University of Victoria Graduate Students' Society ,  Capilano University Langara College Kwantlen Polytechnic University University of the Fraser Valley University of British Columbia Graduate Student Society of UBC Vancouver Simon Fraser University Royal Roads University University of Victoria Omicron Variant Variants of Concern,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Kang, Anne Northern Undergraduate Student Society University of Northern British Columbia

Title: "Organizations representing 112,000+ students urge PHO, AEST to recommend remote learning options as Omicron surges." | Alliance of BC Students

URL: https://twitter.com/students_bc/status/1484694509019705349/

Description: Alliance of BC Students on Twitter: "BREAKING: Organizations representing 112,000+ students urge PHO, AEST to recommend remote learning options as Omicron surges. Read the letter: https://ow.ly/M0rH50HAs2N @ubcgss @KSAcouncil @CapStudentUnion @LangaraSU @UFVSUS @SFSS1 @NUGSS_UNBC @rrustudents @UVIC_GSS @students_bc"

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Subject:   Alliance of BC Students,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Capilano Students' Union Langara Students' Union Kwantlen Student Association University of the Fraser Valley Student Union Society Simon Fraser Student Society Royal Roads University Student Association,  University of Victoria Graduate Students' Society ,  Graduate Student Society of UBC Vancouver Northern Undergraduate Student Society Capilano University Langara College Kwantlen Polytechnic University University of the Fraser Valley University of British Columbia Simon Fraser University Royal Roads University University of Victoria University of Northern British Columbia Omicron Variant Variants of Concern

Title: Unions representing UVic employees call for provincial mandatory mask, vaccine policies | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/uvic-employees-union-mandatory-mask-vaccine/

Description: One of the biggest questions that remains unanswered is whether staff and students at post-secondary institutions—settings where large numbers of people regularly gather indoors—will need to be vaccinated and/or wear masks when the fall term begins this September.

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Subject:   Vaccinations,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Government of Canada Williams, Bruce Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce British Columbia General Employees' Union Canadian Union of Public Employees | Local 4163 University of Victoria Faculty Association Professional Employees Association,  University of Victoria Graduate Students' Society ,  Koch, Matthew Hall, Kevin Rapid Antigen Tests Ono, Santa University of Victoria Dix, Adrian

Title: Petition demands B.C. notify public of COVID-19 exposures, outbreaks at post-secondary institutions | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/petition-demands-b-c-notify-public-of-covid-19-exposures-outbreaks-at-post-secondary-institutions-919589/

Description: The Vancouver Island University Faculty Association has launched a petition demanding the Ministry of Health immediately begin posting COVID-19 exposure, cluster, or outbreak event notifications that have occurred at a post-secondary campus on the regional health authorities' websites.

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Subject:   Vancouver Island University Faculty Association Vancouver Island University Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health University of Victoria Faculty Association University of Victoria Simon Fraser University Faculty Association Simon Fraser University Thompson Rivers University Faculty Association Thompson Rivers University British Columbia General Employees' Union | Local 702,  University of Victoria Graduate Students' Society ,  Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC Alemany, Chris University Affairs Island Health,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Region of Waterloo University of Toronto Wilfrid Laurier University University of Alberta University of Manitoba Dalhousie University St. Francis Xavier University

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