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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: Capital Daily newsletter: January 12, 2022 | Capital Daily

URL: https://overstory.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=30c8e1ca872524fbf7ea5c519ca397ee.1602&s=1d35845a9f6666ff6bba842e22701ee8

Description: Today we are looking at more of the impacts of the ongoing COVID case surge. Businesses and service providers are struggling to stay fully operational due to a lack of healthy and available staff. At the same time, many workers who are healthy enough to work in person fear they will not remain that way due to a lack of adequate protections. Below, we look at local examples of this: more closures of LifeLabs testing centres, and concerns from regional district and childcare workers.

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Subject:   Capital Regional District Canadian Union of Public Employees | Local 1978 Nightingale Preschool and Junior Kindergarten,  Omicron Variant ,  Variants of Concern Brown, Catriona Early Childhood Educators of BC LifeLabs Island Health Saanich Peninsula Hospital Oyster Harbour Seniors Community Park Place Seniors Living Paxlovid Molnupiravir Henry, Bonnie Day Care Centres

Title: Businesses plan to avoid closures | CBC News

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1478932585241796609/

Description: CBC British Columbia on Twitter: "Some B.C. businesses are preparing to potentially lose up to a third of their workforce due to the surge of the Omicron variant. As @Meerakati reports, there are now calls for more financial support for shops that have had to close due to pandemic-related issues."

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Subject:   Omicron Variant ,  Variants of Concern McNeil, Calen Big Wheel Burger Province of British Columbia Kahlon, Ravi Stone, Todd Huberman, Anita Surrey Board of Trade

Title: "Expect a lot more cancellations like this in the weeks ahead."

URL: https://twitter.com/richardzussman/status/1476639226858926085/

Description: Richard Zussman on Twitter: "Expect a lot more cancellations like this in the weeks ahead. High rate of spread of omicron will put pressure on businesses of all kinds to operate. #bcpoli"

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Subject:   BC Ferries,  Omicron Variant ,  Variants of Concern

Title: Omicron on Vancouver Island: Police, paramedics, firefighters expect staff shortages | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/first-responders-anticipating-staff-shortages-as-omicron-wave-continues-1.5732471

Description: Vancouver Island’s emergency services detachments are closely monitoring staffing levels.

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Subject:   Omicron Variant ,  Variants of Concern Victoria Police Department Manak, Del Royal Canadian Mounted Police Saanich Police Department View Royal Fire Rescue Hurst, Paul Colwood Fire Rescue Langford Fire Rescue Clifford, Troy Ambulance Paramedics of British Columbia BC Emergency Health Services

Title: 'How are we going to pay our bills?': B.C. restrictions hitting local gyms and bars hard | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/how-are-we-going-to-pay-our-bills-b-c-restrictions-hitting-local-gyms-and-bars-hard-1.5716704

Description: A day after COVID-19 restrictions took effect on Monday, the province announced another round of measures on Tuesday in an effort to slow down the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant. The new restrictions, which include the closure of bars and nightclubs, will take effect on Thursday.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia,  Omicron Variant ,  Variants of Concern Leachman, Quincy The Duke Saloon Thacker, Katie Third Space Movement Tostenson, Ian BC Restaurant and Foodservices Association

Title: Vaccinated or not, on Lasqueti Island, everyone has to get along | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/lasqueti-island-vaccination-debate/

Description: The island made headlines recently for its hardline anti-vax community, but there’s more to running a community than fighting over vaccines.

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Subject:   Vaccinations Social Media Enright, Adam False Bay Provisions People's Party of Canada,  Omicron Variant ,  Variants of Concern Our Isle & Times Facebook Olsen, Dave de Rege, Valeria Peterson, Tim Lasqueti Island Pub and Hotel BC Vaccine Card Lasqueti Island Arts Centre Maher, Morgan Lasqueti Community Centre Canada Post Rapid Antigen Tests Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 Vaccine Fauci, Anthony Tamerius, Karin Bail, Chris

Title: All Victoria police may be put on front-line duties as city prepares for COVID-19 surge | CBC News

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6307604

Description: First responders among many professions in B.C. planning for staffing crunches due to Omicron variant.

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Subject:   Victoria Police Department,  Omicron Variant ,  Variants of Concern Manak, Del Prince Rupert Fire Rescue Department

Title: Provincial government can and should take proactive measures to fight Omicron | Cowichan Valley Citizen

URL: https://www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/opinion/sonia-furstenau-column-provincial-government-can-and-should-take-proactive-measures-to-fight-omicron/

Description: The provincial government’s tools are not limited to shutdowns and closures, though it has largely chosen to limit its response to those actions.

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia Province of British Columbia,  Omicron Variant ,  Variants of Concern Henry, Bonnie Rapid Antigen Tests Ventilation

Title: Child care workers have been left behind during the pandemic. Will this fall be different | The Maple

URL: https://www.readthemaple.com/child-care-workers-have-been-left-behind-during-the-pandemic-will-this-fall-be-different/

Description: Debates have raged about the best way to prevent the spread of COVID in schools, but a key part of the education system is often left out of these discussions: Child care.

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Subject:   Monahan, Nina Day Care Centres Province of British Columbia Variants of Concern Social Research and Development Corporation Early Childhood Educators of BC Gawlick, Emily Barkved, Kelsi,  Omicron Variant ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Children and Family Development Rapid Antigen Tests Lysyshyn, Mark WorkSafeBC BC Centre for Disease Control Henry, Bonnie Long COVID Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education Whiteside, Jennifer Chen, Katrina Irwin, Sue Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education and Child Care Government of Canada Zeidler, Karina Vancouver School Board Ventilation

Title: Finally, increasing public scrutiny of Dr. Bonnie Henry | YouTube | Energi Media

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHDttsAvObc

Description: Markham interviews Andrew Longhurst, health policy researcher and PhD. candidate at Simon Fraser University, op-ed in “BC Needs to Get Serious about Omicron.”

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie Longhurst, Andrew Variants of Concern,  Omicron Variant ,  Hinshaw, Deena Kenney, Jason Vaccinations Ventilation

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