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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: BC's restart: A plan to bring us back together | May 25, 2021 | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://bccpac.bc.ca/images/Documents/Resources/BcRestartPlan_PPP_20210525.pdf

Description: BC’s restart is a careful, four-step plan to help bring us back together.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia ,  Vaccinations WorkSafeBC Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

Title: ‘Balance of harms approach’ to COVID-19 worked, but First Nations were left out of major decisions, says report | Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper

URL: https://hashilthsa.com/news/2022-12-16/balance-harms-approach-covid-19-worked-first-nations-were-left-out-major-decisions/

Description: A review of the province’s handling of the pandemic has painted a positive picture, but the recent report also notes that relations with First Nations could have been better as the government dealt with COVID-19.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General Vaccinations First Nations Health Authority Chisholm, Jim Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations Henry, Bonnie Ahousaht First Nation Sayers, Judith | Kekinusuqs Thomas, Wally Ka:'yu:'k't'h'/Che:k:tles7et'h' First Nations Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council Tŝilhqot'in National Government Tŝilhqot'in Nation Heiltsuk Nation Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia Ehattesaht First Nation Zeballos Elementary Secondary School School District 84 Vancouver Island West Smith, Ernie Louie, Greg Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Boyer, Roger Watts, Ken

Title: B.C. shifts to Step 3 of restart plan | June 29, 2021 | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021PREM0043-001268/

Description: With British Columbians achieving nearly 80% adult Dose 1 vaccine coverage and COVID-19 case counts continuing to decline, the Province is safely moving to Step 3 of its four-step restart plan on July 1, 2021.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia ,  Horgan, John Vaccinations Kahlon, Ravi Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation BC Centre for Disease Control Henry, Bonnie Dix, Adrian Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health

Title: B.C. takes next step in balanced plan to lift COVID-19 restrictions | March 10, 2022 | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022HLTH0081-000324/

Description: As of Friday, March 11, 2022, B.C.’s indoor mask order is being repealed along with eased restrictions on long-term care visitors, faith gatherings and overnight camps for children and youth. Today’s announcement also sets a pathway to lift additional COVID-19 restrictions, including the BC Vaccine Card requiring proof of vaccination, on April 8.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health,  Province of British Columbia ,  BC Vaccine Card Henry, Bonnie Dix, Adrian Vaccinations BC Centre for Disease Control BC Ferries Rapid Antigen Tests

Title: Lift BC nurses' vaccine mandates to ease staffing shortfalls, say critics | Northern Beat

URL: https://northernbeat.ca/opinion/lift-bc-nurses-vaccine-mandates-to-ease-staffing-shortfalls-say-critics/

Description: Should B.C. nurses who refuse to get vaccinated for COVID-19 still be banned from working in the province’s short-staffed healthcare facilities? It’s a question being mulled over internally within the B.C. government right now, as the province develops its fall vaccine campaign for the flu and COVID-19.

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Subject:   Vaccinations,  Province of British Columbia ,  Goetz, Michael Nicola Valley Hospital and Health Centre Interior Health BC Nurses' Union Henry, Bonnie Dix, Adrian Fursteanu, Sonia BC United Davies, Dan BC Labour Relations Board

Title: Golden rules for everybody (even after vaccination) | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1nTVnQUcAAXiqE?format=jpg&name=medium

Description: BC Government News on Twitter: "The golden rules apply to everyone – even after you are vaccinated. - After dose one, it takes 2-3 weeks to become better protected. - After that, there's still a small risk of transmitting the virus to others. Thank you for keeping our loved ones and communities safe. #COVIDbc"

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia

Title: [Image 2:] BC public service executive message - COVID-19 update | August 24, 2021 | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9lkC5-WEAQFcoW?format=png&name=900x900

Description: theBreaker.news on Twitter: "🚨LEAKED MEMO: Head of @BCPublicService tells 30,000 #BCGov workers the @BCNDP vaccine mandate does not apply to their workplaces "at this time." They may still work from home until at least Oct. 12. #bcpoli #BonnieAndJohnnys4thWave #covid19 #vaxforbc #OperationSlowpoke"

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia ,  Vaccinations

Title: [Image 1:] BC public service executive message - COVID-19 update | August 24, 2021 | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9lkC5-WYAE8yFk?format=jpg&name=medium

Description: theBreaker.news on Twitter: "🚨LEAKED MEMO: Head of @BCPublicService tells 30,000 #BCGov workers the @BCNDP vaccine mandate does not apply to their workplaces "at this time." They may still work from home until at least Oct. 12. #bcpoli #BonnieAndJohnnys4thWave #covid19 #vaxforbc #OperationSlowpoke"

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia ,  Vaccinations

Title: [Call to BC government:] Increase testing & vaccination capacity | BC Green Caucus

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EydfgTGUYAQgpIh?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Sonia Furstenau on Twitter: "The @bcgreencaucus is calling on government to urgently adopt the following measures. 6/6 #bcpoli #COVID19BC #bced #COVID19"

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Subject:   BC Green Party,  Province of British Columbia ,  Vaccinations Rapid Antigen Tests Variants of Concern

Title: [Letter to Jennifer Whiteside and Adrian Dix] | January 10, 2022 | BC Green Party

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIxZsrrVIAEAYZt?format=png&name=900x900

Description: Sonia Furstenau on Twitter: "Today @AdamPOlsen and I sent a letter to Ministers @JM_Whiteside and @adriandix asking the many questions we've gotten from concerned parents and education staff about the return to school. 1/ #bcpoli #bced #COVID19BC #mentalhealth / While many of these questions have been asked, sometimes repeatedly, answers that are both transparent and direct have been lacking. We've sent this letter in hopes that 2022 can be the year of proactive actions and direct answers from the @bcndp . 2/2 #bcpoli #bced #COVID19BC"

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia Olsen, Adam Whiteside, Jennifer Dix, Adrian BC Green Party,  Province of British Columbia ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Tam, Theresa World Health Organization Ventilation Vaccinations

Title: Feb 3, 2023: COVID reality check with Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi | Protect Our Province BC

URL: https://protectbc.ca/covid-reality-check/

Description: Protect our Province BC member Dr. Susan Kuo hosts Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi in a discussion about British Columbia’s pandemic response so far, how the response has fallen short of the best available science and the precautionary principle, and what we should be doing to take care of ourselves and our neighbours going forward.

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC Kuo, Susan Gandhi, Sanjiv BC Green Party Ventilation,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Paxlovid Long COVID Vaccinations WorkSafeBC Novavax Nuvaxovid COVID-19 Vaccine

Title: [Comments on article featuring comments from Adrian Dix]

URL: https://twitter.com/SoniaFurstenau/status/1544121133204574208/

Description: Sonia Furstenau on Twitter: "Not a single one of the 160 words in this article explains any specifics of how BC is preparing for a possible #COVID19 surge. For example @AdrianDix could say, “we are preparing for a surge by ensuring free N95 masks are available to people. 1/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / Or “We will be moving to make the 4th dose available to all British Columbians now rather than waiting until the fall.” 2/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC #COVID19 / Or “Our gov’t is installing proper ventilation and filtration (HEPA filters) in schools and workplaces and funding 10 day paid sick leave to ensure people don’t have to choose between infecting others or affording rent and food.” 3/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / Or “From now on transparent data collection and reporting so people can gauge the ever-changing risk in public spaces will be a priority.” 4/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC #COVID19 / Or at the very least - acknowledging that all signs point to a surge this summer and acting immediately to ensure people are aware of how to best protect themselves and what the risk levels are. 5/5 #bcpoli #COVID19BC #COVID19"

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia Dix, Adrian Vaccinations Ventilation,  Province of British Columbia

Title: "There are a number of signs that B.C. has entered into a 3rd Omicron wave"

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1544054073187479552/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "There are a number of signs that B.C. has entered into a 3rd Omicron wave, the length and severity of which is yet to be determined. Let's take a look at what we know at the moment. / #COVID19 measurements have risen in four of Metro Vancouver's five wastewater treatment plants the last two weeks. Prior to this, only one had been going up, the rest falling or stable. Thus far it has not been a huge spike up, but we've been down this road before. / In addition, hospitalizations had been dropping for the last six weeks. But that trend stopped last week — which by itself might not be a huge worry, but combined with global tends and local wastewater measurements, should give pause. / Lagging effects being what they are, we've seen in the last couple weeks a big fall in immediate deaths attributed to COVID. Hard to do comparisons because of the government changing measurements, but 2nd Omicron wave was similar to the 1st Omicron wave in terms of deaths. / Many places are seeing similar waves at the moment, driven by BA.4 or BA.5 variants. It's showing signs of being more transmissible and dangerous than BA.2, which fuelled B.C.'s second Omicron wave in March/April. So what is the B.C. government doing? / At this point, B.C. isn't providing data on the newest Omicron variants. One can see the growing "Other" section of variants in the chart and probably put two and two together, but it's another way in which B.C.'s lack of data makes it hard to paint a full picture. / At this point, B.C. has provided the lowest number of 4th doses of any Canadian province releasing data. Given the high numbers of British Columbians who received 1st/2nd/3rd doses, this is likely a result of government strategy to restrict access relative to the rest of Canada / Forecasting what comes next is difficult for a few reasons: - Few countries have seen a BA 4/5 plateau yet - Countries have quite different immunity profiles at this point - The quality of B.C.'s public data, which was uhhhh open to debate at the best of times, is much lower now / Will be worth watching if B.C. changes its 4th dose strategy soon, if BA 4/5 waves plateau in other countries, and what that plateau looks like in terms of health outcomes. But in the short-term hard to imagine a scenario where transmission in B.C. doesn't go up. k thread over"

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Subject:   Omicron Variant Variants of Concern,  Province of British Columbia ,  Wastewater Surveillance Vaccinations

Title: Important update on vaccine mandates | October 7, 2021 | British Columbia Teachers' Federation

URL: https://www.bctf.ca/whats-happening/news-details/2021/10/07/important-update-on-vaccine-mandates/

Description: It has become clear to us that a COVID-19 vaccine mandate is likely to come to the public education system. To respond to this rapidly shifting ground, the BCTF Executive Committee met again last night, discussed the issues, and took the position that the Federation supports provincial mandatory vaccines in the K–12 system for school staff and volunteers.

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Subject:   Vaccinations,  Province of British Columbia ,  Canadian Union of Public Employees Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education British Columbia Teachers' Federation British Columbia General Employees' Union BC Public School Employers' Association

Title: BC removing vaccine card, daily reports despite signs of 6th wave | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/bc-removing-vaccine-card-daily-reports-despite-signs-of-6th-wave/

Description: Cases and hospitalizations are ticking upward, but BC is staying the course by removing restrictions and data sharing.

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Subject:   BC Vaccine Card Vaccinations,  Province of British Columbia ,  Wastewater Surveillance Island Health Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Henry, Bonnie Dix, Adrian National Advisory Committee on Immunization Helm, Britt Nanaimo Regional General Hospital Furstenau, Sonia

Title: Updated: What the leaked COVID-19 report tells us about Vancouver Island | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/leaked-covid-19-report-vancouver-island/

Description: On Thursday, the Vancouver Sun published a pair of leaked internal BC Centre for Disease Control reports that show the province has been collecting information about COVID-19 transmission and vaccinations on a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood basis, along with other key pieces of data that experts and journalists have been requesting for months. This in-depth information has never been shared with the public.

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia,  Province of British Columbia ,  Vancouver Sun BC Centre for Disease Control Henry, Bonnie Gustafson, Réka Vaccinations Fraser Health Island Health Leyne, Andrew Screech, David Variants of Concern Northern Health Alpha Variant Gamma Variant Karlen, Dean

Title: Vancouver Island is awash with Omicron. What are authorities doing to slow it? | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/vancouver-island-omicron-covid-fifth-wave/

Description: Data from other jurisdictions show the Island is in for a rough month to come, but authorities are still denying basic facts about the virus.

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Subject:   Variants of Concern Omicron Variant Henry, Bonnie Northgate Chuch University of Victoria Island Health Rapid Antigen Tests Vaccinations Contandriopoulos, Damien Stanwick, Richard University of Victoria | Centre for Athletics, Recreation and Special Abilities,  Province of British Columbia ,  Dix, Adrian Health Canada National Advisory Committee on Immunization College of Pharmacists of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health BC COVID-19 Modelling Group Karlen, Dean BC Centre for Disease Control Protect Our Province BC Filiatrault, Lyne Gasperowicz, Malgorzata Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

Title: Hundreds of BC Public Service employees stage protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/bc-government-employees-protest-vaccine-mandates-908339/

Description: Hundreds of people took to the B.C. Legislature lawn Sunday afternoon to protesting the B.C. government’s recent vaccine mandates.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia ,  Vaccinations Servant, Paul Dix, Adrian Grant, Sara Hickey, Colleen

Title: B.C. deletes tweet asking people to ‘snitch’ on unvaccinated friends, family | Ladysmith Chemainus Chronicle

URL: https://www.ladysmithchronicle.com/news/b-c-deletes-tweet-asking-people-to-share-names-of-unvaccinated-friends-family/

Description: The province, which has cited privacy issues as a reason for not sharing COVID-19 data, asked citizens to disclose the names of their unvaccinated friends and family. The government tweet, which was posted on June 24, has since been deleted.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia ,  Twitter Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Woywada, Jason Vaccinations Social Media

Title: In the media: Safe Schools Coalition BC’s refusal to meet with government hits Vancouver Sun | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://www.safeschoolscoalitionbc.com/2021/12/05/in-the-media-safe-schools-coalition-bc-refusal-to-meet-with-government-hits-vancouver-sun/

Description: Last month, Safe Schools Coalition BC was asked to meet with representatives of the Government of BC to assist upon messaging related to the then-upcoming launch of 5-11 year-old COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Our group denied this request as we continue to advocate for a multi-layered approach that incorporates vaccines and a host of other interventions, such as rapid tests, timely and accurate notifications, ventilation improvements, and remote options.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC,  Province of British Columbia ,  Vaccinations Heighton, Jennifer Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Citizens' Services Rapid Antigen Tests Ventilation

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