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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: The plague | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: http://carolmatthews.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-plague.html?m=0

Description: These mornings, when I first awaken, I sometimes feel a little bleak. And when I think of bleakness, I often think of King Lear.

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol

Title: [April 2020 blog posts] | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: http://carolmatthews.blogspot.com/2020/04/?m=0

Description: Reveille! -- Angels -- Airborne vs. ground-based -- Easter miracle -- If we could talk to the animals...

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol ,  Henry, Bonnie

Title: [May 2020 blog posts] | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: http://carolmatthews.blogspot.com/2020/05/?m=0

Description: What does this garden grow? -- Birds on the wire – or, thinking about corvids at the time of the Covid… -- Contract with the world -- A trip of a lifetime -- Quotidian

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol

Title: [June 2020 blog posts] | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: http://carolmatthews.blogspot.com/2020/06/?m=0

Description: Wary -- What will we become? -- Transitions -- 21 seconds

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol

Title: The other shoe | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: http://carolmatthews.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-other-shoe.html?m=0

Description: When the first shoe thudded down, we all shuttered ourselves in our homes, hoarding toilet paper, flour and yeast, and trying to adhere to the Stage One guidelines. When Stage Two was announced, things eased up considerably as we expanded our bubbles, shopped more, and went, if somewhat nervously, to restaurants. Now we are in Stage Three, which feels as though we are getting back to normal. And we should be hopeful; we have flattened the curve, but we may have to wait for a while.

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie Royal Roads University,  Matthews, Carol ,  Homer-Dixon, Thomas

Title: [September 2020 blog posts] | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: http://carolmatthews.blogspot.com/2020/09/?m=0

Description: More on masks -- Frogs, oxen and long spoons -- Difficult times -- Zoom heaven

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol ,  Zoom

Title: Knitting up the raveled sleeve of care | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: http://carolmatthews.blogspot.com/2020/12/knitting-up-raveled-sleeve-of-care.html?m=0

Description: At this time of separation and isolation, it feels good to be knitting. Knitting is a useful image for what we will need to do to heal our damaged world. We will need to bring things back together so that the thread of life can continue. We will have to integrate a lot of pain and loss and knit it all together.

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol

Title: How we see things | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: http://carolmatthews.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-we-see-things.html?m=0

Description: My brother Rod pointed out to me that over these past few weeks we’ve heard examples of two very different pandemic behaviours involving the loss of a significant amount of money. In reflecting on these two accounts, I think we see extreme examples of heroic versus deplorable behaviours.

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol ,  Duvernay, Tardif-Laurent Baker, Rodney Baker, Ekaterina

Title: Good advice | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: http://carolmatthews.blogspot.com/2021/02/good-advice.html

Description: The truth is, we know the virus is spreading. The truth is, we know that people are the spreaders. The truth is, we know that our government is unable to stop the spread, except by imposing much more extreme lockdown measures. Let’s restate the obvious: It’s up to us! Tuum est, all you Latin scholars and UBC graduates. And, at the same time, let’s be merciful and blessed, and kind, to the unjust as well as the just. And let’s be honest enough to acknowledge that we’re all sometimes guilty of motivated cognition and the behaviours that result.

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol

Title: Hearts and flowers | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: http://carolmatthews.blogspot.com/2021/02/hearts-and-flowers.html

Description: At the beginning of the pandemic, we saw a great many hearts on doors, windows and balconies as a symbol to recognize the dedication of our health care workers. Lately, I have seen far fewer. We’re all getting accustomed to the pandemic and are less panicky about it than we were at the start. But, a year later, the nurses, doctors and other essential workers are still risking their health as they turn up for work every day.

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol ,  Valentine's Day

Title: Respecting necessity | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: http://carolmatthews.blogspot.com/2021/03/respecting-necessity.html

Description: I’ve thought a lot about necessity over the past year. It’s been a time of digging into our deepest needs and reaching out to come up with new and creative ways to satisfy them.

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol

Title: Where to start? | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: http://carolmatthews.blogspot.com/2021/07/where-to-start.html

Description: These days, every crisis seems to occur within or alongside other crises. Where does it end? More important, where can we start to deal with all this?

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol

Title: Lab Dispatch ABCV2020xv7v3 | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: https://caroljmatthews.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/lab-dispatch-abcv2020xv7v3/

Description: Our work continues to build steadily and we are pleased to report on the successes of our new generation, our colourful Covid Youth Squad, Omicron.

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern

Title: Not going away | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: https://caroljmatthews.wordpress.com/2022/02/06/not-going-away/

Description: We’re here to stay until we’ve finished the work we came to do. That’s our message to anyone who wants to listen.

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol

Title: Freedom | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: https://caroljmatthews.wordpress.com/2022/02/27/freedom/

Description: The words “freedom” and “democracy” are very much in the news and in our conversations these days.

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol ,  2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Title: “Freedom” | Carol Matthews These Days

URL: https://caroljmatthews.wordpress.com/2022/04/10/freedom-2/

Description: I am so very, very tired of the Freedom Convoy.

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Subject:   Matthews, Carol ,  Vaccinations

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