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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: [Comments about Vancouver Island's vaccinations]

URL: https://twitter.com/RobShaw_BC/status/1377386218090942464?s=20

Description: Rob Shaw on Twitter: "Will today’s pharmacy vaccines for 55-65 yr olds in Metro Vancouver come to Vancouver Island? @adriandix says no, Vancouver Island is already getting more vaccine based on age due to its high elderly population. Vancouver was chosen for high case load and distribution efficency. / "I can tell people on Vancouver Island that the level of vaccine hesitancy is low, the vaccine being delivered is high, and people are doing an excellent job,” says Dix. / That being said, Dix notes that the positivity rate on the Island (now more than 5%) is higher than Fraser Health’s positivity rate 1.5 months ago and he’s concerned about cases on the Island."

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Subject:   Dix, Adrian ,  Vaccinations AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD Vaccine Island Health Fraser Health

Title: 'Don't do this': Another vaccine passport protest planned outside VGH | CityNews

URL: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2021/09/09/vaccine-passport-protest-vancouver-hospital/

Description: Despite the outrage prompted by last week’s protests against COVID-19 vaccine passports and other measures at Vancouver General Hospital, demonstrators are planning another round.

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Subject:   BC Vaccine Card Vaccinations Vancouver General Hospital Canadian Frontline Nurses Stewart, Kennedy Palmer, Adam City of Vancouver Vancouver Police Department Addison, Steve,  Dix, Adrian ,  Way, Kari Aslam, Sonia Vancouver City Hall

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: While Omicron spreads, B.C. vaccine clinics are closing for the holidays | CBC News

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6289243

Description: While the Omicron variant rapidly spreads, community vaccine clinics across British Columbia are closing for the holidays — some for as long as two weeks.

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Subject:   Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Vaccinations Fares, Jean Conway, Brian,  Dix, Adrian ,  Northern Health Brown, Elliott Curtis, Norah Juni, Peter National Advisory Committee on Immunization Huber, Dezene AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD Vaccine

Title: B.C. parents frustrated with lack of COVID-19 vaccine mandate for teachers | The Globe and Mail

URL: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-bc-parents-frustrated-with-lack-of-vaccine-mandate-for-teachers/

Description: School boards in B.C. have been told there are no resources available to enforce a vaccine mandate for teachers, and no ability to establish a testing regime for staff who decline to be inoculated against COVID-19, which has left many parents frustrated and confused as to why school staff would not face the same requirements as workers in other sectors.

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Subject:   Vaccinations Fraser Health Province of British Columbia Vancouver School Board Surrey Schools School District 40 New Westminster Abbotsford School District BC Ferries BC Hydro,  Dix, Adrian ,  Lau, Gord Adams, Simon Central Okanagan Public Schools Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education Mooring, Teri British Columbia Teachers' Federation Whiteside, Jennifer Henry, Bonnie Cho, Carmen

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