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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: Taking action in the Cowichan Lake area to end poverty: A summary of community input | Movin' On Up Cowichan Lake Poverty Reduction Project

URL: https://61d69953-0d18-46d9-b019-3c0053e908da.filesusr.com/ugd/c28b2b_ff8435bb9b58464ca2d5066975e588fc.pdf

Description: The purpose of this document is to: summarize the impacts, ideas and actions that you've shared so far; work together to fill any gaps and make further suggestions for taking action; identify and prioritize which actions we want to take together to move forward with a plan that will end poverty, as a community.

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Subject:   Movin' On Up Cowichan Lake Poverty Reduction Project Town of Lake Cowichan Cowichan Lake Community Services Lake Cowichan Food Bank Society Cowichan Lake District Chamber of Commerce Lake Cowichan Advisory Planning Commission Cowichan Valley School District,  Island Health ,  Social Planning Cowichan Our Cowichan Communities Health Network

Title: Tenting site on St. Julien Street helping to shelter, support and self-isolate Duncan’s homeless during COVID-19 | May 21, 2020 | City of Duncan

URL: https://duncan.ca/2020/05/tenting-site-on-st-julien-street-helping-to-shelter-support-and-self-isolate-duncans-homeless-during-covid-19/

Description: A tenting site for up to 12 people experiencing homelessness has been set-up in a vacant lot owned by the City of Duncan on St. Julien Street.

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Subject:   City of Duncan BC Housing COVID-19 Cowichan Task Force for Vulnerable Populations Cowichan Housing Association Canadian Mental Health Association | Cowichan Valley Branch,  Island Health

Title: COVID 19: What’s the plan for people without homes? | The Discourse

URL: https://thediscourse.ca/cowichan-valley/covid-whats-the-plan-for-people-without-homes/

Description: I spoke with John Horn, with the Cowichan Housing Association, about the plan to shelter people experiencing homelessness through a pandemic.

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Subject:   Horn, John Cowichan Women Against Violence Society Cowichan Community Centre COVID-19 Cowichan Task Force for Vulnerable Populations BC Housing Cowichan Housing Association,  Island Health

Title: A ‘massive success’: Task force offers temporary housing at the Ramada in Duncan | The Discourse

URL: https://thediscourse.ca/cowichan-valley/ramada-duncan-temporary-housing/

Description: 45 people, including five children, are staying in rooms at the Ramada Duncan that the COVID-19 Cowichan Task Force for Vulnerable Populations is renting as temporary housing. Along with five tenting sites, this is Phase 1 of an effort to help people who are unhoused or precariously housed stay healthy during the pandemic.

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Subject:   Olson, Jack Ramada Duncan COVID-19 Cowichan Task Force for Vulnerable Populations BC Housing Both, Nick Lionas, Mary Middlemiss, Stacy Warmland House Shelter,  Island Health ,  Hiiye'yu Lelum (House of Friendship) Society Canadian Mental Health Association | Cowichan Valley Branch

Title: [COVID-19 positive woman is isolating in her car]

URL: https://twitter.com/realreporter/status/1429974635911675904?t=pUvpTdFLN5oOEiehKQUySg&s=09

Description: Salim Jiwa on Twitter: "#bcpoli Woman forced out of home by abusive husband & has covid is living in her car in a Duncan parking lot. VIHA director responsible for cohort housing says housing homeless is eliminated because of shift to endemic phase. And vaccines. She will be helped to isolate in car Flushed face / This is great injustice and treatment of poor people who have no place to isolate. The whole social safety net for covid has been wiped out. Contact tracers have been fired. BC's tragic tale. / @adriandix Can you offer proper help to this woman who is isolating in her car in a Duncan parking lot. I think they've given her toilet paper and told her no cohort housing anymore. Is that the limit of our compassion. Please help her."

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Subject:   Island Health

Title: What we know (and don’t) about how COVID-19 affets racial minorities on Vancouver Island | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/covid-19-race-based-data-collection-vancouver-island-bc/

Description: Experts say collecting race-based data could help drive better public health decisions, but that isn't happening.

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Subject:   Cowichan Tribes Furstenau, Sonia First Nations Health Authority,  Island Health ,  Ahousaht First Nation Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations Louie, Greg Heiltsuk Nation Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council Tŝilhqot'in National Government Tŝilhqot'in Nation Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Snuneymuxw First Nation Govender, Kasari Henry, Bonnie Kobayashi, Karen Brown, Boma BC Centre for Disease Control Gustafson, Réka

Title: City of Duncan denies another COVID-19 grant request | Cowichan Valley Citizen

URL: https://www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/news/city-of-duncan-denies-another-covid-19-grant-request/

Description: Application from Cowichan Family Life doesn’t fit criteria, council decides.

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Subject:   City of Duncan Cowichan Family Life Association MacLeod, Madelaine Duncan, Tom,  Island Health ,  Province of British Columbia Middlemiss, Stacy Brooke, Bob Capps, Jenni

Title: Updated: Fuller Lake Arena parking lot to be set up as temporary homeless tent site beginning Tuesday, May 19 | Cowichan Valley Citizen

URL: https://www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/news/locations-of-homeless-tent-sites-for-cowichan-expected-to-be-determined-this-week/

Description: Tenting and fences will begin to be set up Tuesday, May 19 in the parking lot at the south end of Fuller Lake Arena in North Cowichan as one of the six to eight temporary tenting sites for the homeless that are to be set up in the Cowichan region.

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Subject:   Fuller Lake Arena Municipality of North Cowichan Siebring, Al BC Housing Province of British Columbia COVID-19 Cowichan Task Force for Vulnerable Populations Victoria Foundation Jawl Foundation Times Colonist Cowichan Neighbourhood House Association,  Island Health

Title: Short-term plan in place for Cowichan Valley’s homeless during COVID-19 crisis | Cowichan Valley Citizen

URL: https://www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/news/short-term-plan-is-place-for-cowichan-valleys-homeless-during-covid-19-crisis/

Description: A short-term plan to provide housing and support for Cowichan Valley’s homeless during the COVID-19 crisis is being put in place.

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Subject:   Horn, John Cowichan Housing Association City of Duncan BC Housing Emergency Management BC COVID-19 Cowichan Task Force for Vulnerable Populations,  Island Health ,  Staples, Michelle Furstenau, Sonia

Title: Helping Ladysmith's homeless access services, self-isolate during COVID-19 | Town of Ladysmith

URL: https://www.ladysmith.ca/city-hall/news-media/2020/05/14/helping-ladysmith-s-homeless-access-services-self-isolate-during-covid-19/

Description: Those experiencing homelessness in the Cowichan Valley will soon have additional sheltering spaces and supports during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Subject:   Town of Ladysmith Province of British Columbia BC Housing Ladysmith Resources Centre Association Cowichan Housing Association,  Island Health ,  COVID-19 Cowichan Task Force for Vulnerable Populations Nanaimo and Area Resource Services for Families

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