Title: "Alberni Aloha: North & South convoys"

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPBlkRFWQA8azmU?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Cort on Twitter: "Sorry #portalberni, the next wave of convoy is heading your way. The convoy is currently splintered into 3 for next Sat: Port Alberni (Ladd2+), Nanaimo (RonClark & Rooster), and Victoria (Cristian McCay). #yyj #RamRanchResistance @VanIslandRCMP"

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Subject:   Clark, Ron,  McCay, Christian

Title: "Email the board and support VIRL librarians!"

URL: https://twitter.com/urusaiya/status/1509044897503854595/

Description: ドーン 🦉🌻 on Twitter: "Libraries are for people AND need the people who work in them. Vancouver Island now...but this could be any library this year. Email the board and support VIRL librarians! ✊🏻💪🏻‼️"

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Subject:   Vancouver Island Regional Library,  British Columbia General Employees' Union,  Labour Disputes

Title: "If no offer, tomorrow ALL librarians will be on strike, ALL branches will be impacted." | British Columbia General Employees' Union

URL: https://twitter.com/bcgeu/status/1508878251053121537/

Description: BCGEU on Twitter: "BCGEU librarians from 5 @VI_Library branches are picketing at 1 branch today. If no offer, tomorrow ALL librarians will be on strike, ALL branches will be impacted. Board trustees can stop this, email them now: https://bit.ly/3imPP7a #respectVIRLlibrarians ✊🙏 @RentStrikeBarg"

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Subject:   British Columbia General Employees' Union,  Vancouver Island Regional Library,  Labour Disputes,  Rent Strike Bargain Campaign Association

Title: "Reminder to destroy propaganda when you come across it"

URL: https://twitter.com/RaynaRambling/status/1508917618501029890/

Description: Rayna on Twitter: "Reminder to destroy propaganda when you come across it (I ran by & noticed it in a little free library)"

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Title: "We are not asking for the moon! Just a fair deal!"

URL: https://twitter.com/atrumbled/status/1509037723360776204/

Description: Allison Trumble on Twitter: "Up til now we have been doing rotating strikes. We’ve been doing this for 3 full weeks and still no deal so as of tomorrow we are ALL on strike until we get a decent offer. We are not asking for the moon! Just a fair deal! #respectVIRLlibrarians"

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Subject:   Vancouver Island Regional Library,  Labour Disputes,  British Columbia General Employees' Union

Title: 'Literally a life and death decision for some': UVic pushes ahead with end to mask mandate | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/literally-a-life-and-death-decision-for-some-uvic-pushes-ahead-with-end-to-mask-mandate-1.5840235

Description: It’s official, the University of Victoria will not make masks mandatory once again in indoor spaces on campus.

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Subject:   University of Victoria,  Wyatt, Victoria,  University of Victoria Faculty Association,  Helm, Denise,  Traut, Kaylee,  Cook, Mckinley,  Govender, Kasari,  Henry, Bonnie,  Dix, Adrian

Title: BCGEU librarians start the week with moderate job action | Island Social Trends

URL: https://islandsocialtrends.ca/bcgeu-librarians-start-the-week-with-moderate-job-action/

Description: This past weekend, people might have thought to visit their local Vancouver Island Regional Library branch. But at 10 branches there were picket lines, in an escalated statement of job action by the BCGEU Local 702 librarians.

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Subject:   Vancouver Island Regional Library,  British Columbia General Employees' Union,  Labour Disputes,  Canadian Union of Public Employees | Local 401,  Carson, David

Title: BCGEU librarians still without offer, all to strike with pickets at targeted VIRL branches | March 29, 2022 | British Columbia General Employees' Union

URL: https://www.bcgeu.ca/bcgeu_librarians_still_without_offer/

Description: After more than a week without an offer from their employer, members of the BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) working as librarians for the Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) are escalating their job action.

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Subject:   British Columbia General Employees' Union,  Vancouver Island Regional Library,  Labour Disputes,  Smith, Stephanie

Title: BCGEU pushing the VIRL envelope with 10 picket lines | Island Social Trends

URL: https://islandsocialtrends.ca/bcgeu-pushing-virl-envelope-with-10-picket-lines/

Description: Picket lines are now blocking library patrons from 10 branches of the Vancouver Island Regional Library

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Subject:   Vancouver Island Regional Library,  British Columbia General Employees' Union,  Labour Disputes,  Carson, David

Title: It's been a good season for snow at Mount Washington—but not for workers | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/mount-washington-worker-shortage/

Description: Mount Washington managers are loading lifts and bussing tables due to ongoing staff shortage. Part 4 of our series, Pay Check.

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Subject:   Mount Washington Alpine Resort,  Caley, Dan,  Manara, Mike,  Prentice, Dean,  Nicolson, Christopher,  Canada West Ski Area Association,  Mosteller, Matt,  Resorts of the Canadian Rockies,  Pinchbeck, Paul,  Linton, Alex,  Norie, Henry,  Stuart, George,  Pacific Group Resorts Inc.,  Ted’s Bar and Grill,  Friese, Erika,  Vancouver Island Mountain Centre,  Baro, Pere

Title: Letter to the editor: PM trampled on protesters’ rights | Nanaimo News Bulletin

URL: https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-pm-trampled-on-protesters-rights/

Description: In a democracy of free people, opposing views must be heard, says letter writer.

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Subject:   Trudeau, Justin

Title: Nanaimo resident fed up with all the horn honking for Norwell Drive flag-wavers | Nanaimo News Bulletin

URL: https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/nanaimo-resident-fed-up-with-all-the-horn-honking-for-norwell-drive-flag-wavers/

Description: A Nanaimo man fed up with all the honking for flag-wavers at Norwell Drive wants the city to see its noise bylaw from his perspective.

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Subject:   City of Nanaimo,  MacIver, Rory,  LaBerge, Dave,  Trans-Canada Highway

Title: Rate of COVID-19 in Vancouver Island local health areas | March 21 to 28, 2022

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPEGPg1VkAc7pvg?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Mick Sweetman on Twitter: "#COVID19 case rates per 100,000 residents are going up in Central #VancouverIsland (red lines) as well as South Island (blue lines) Local Health Areas. Case rates in North Island LHA's (green lines) are stable and low. #COVID19BC #yyj #Nanaimo"

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Subject:   Island Health

Title: Smaller casts, but still big performances on the Chemainus Theatre 2022 show schedule | Cowichan Valley Citizen

URL: https://www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/entertainment/smaller-casts-but-still-big-performances-on-the-chemainus-theatre-2022-show-schedule/

Description: It’s better late than never for the Chemainus Theatre to be releasing a show schedule for 2022.

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Subject:   Chemainus Theatre,  Huber, Randy,  DuMez, Mark

Title: UVic board of governors rejects senate’s vote to reinstate mask mandate | Cowichan Valley Citizen

URL: https://www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/news/uvic-board-of-governors-rejects-senates-vote-to-reinstate-mask-mandate/

Description: The University of Victoria will not reinstate a mask mandate on campus, despite urging from its senate.

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Subject:   University of Victoria,  Johns, Rob,  University of British Columbia,  Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Title: [BC's 6 waves of COVID-19]

URL: https://twitter.com/Lidsville/status/1508874832628178946/

Description: Lindsay Brown on Twitter: "Review of BC's 6 waves of #COVID19 1. Original wildtype Covid (OG), late 2019, took off Spring 2020 2. 2nd wave of OG, Fall 2020 3. Alpha (morphed into Gamma) Dec 2020/Spring 2021 4. Delta, Summer/Fall 2021 5. Omicron (BA.1) Dec 2021/Jan 2022 6. Omicron (BA.2) March 2022 #bcpoli / Lindsay Brown - Wear A Mask @Lidsville · Mar 29 Replying to @Lidsville If you want the specific variant and sub-variant alphanumerical designations, see @WHO https://who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants/ The dates in prev tweet are general, roughly suggesting when the 6 main waves hit & then waved in BC (timing may be different (usually earlier) in other countries) / Quebec has officially warned of the 6th wave, Omicron BA.2. BC has not. Why? #bcpoli / Why is BC failing, yet again, to apply the precautionary principle? We have had 5 waves of Covid, ample chance to learn what to do. This morning there are multiple cases of Covid in my disabled sister's LTC - AGAIN. Friends report MANY colleagues off sick from work. / And ICYMI, important thread on the precautionary principle, and BC yet again failing to adopt it and get ahead of yet another Covid wave: #bcpoli #BA2 / The BA.2 variant wave is hitting hard. BC is not prepared. #bcpoli 1. Boston https://twitter.com/bostonherald/status/1508893200722845705 2. Ontario"

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Subject:   Alpha Variant,  Gamma Variant,  Delta Variant,  Omicron Variant,  Variants of Concern

Title: [Comments on Human Rights Commissioner's letter to BC government regarding lifting of mask mandate]

URL: https://twitter.com/SoniaFurstenau/status/1508866503960977409/

Description: Sonia Furstenau on Twitter: "Today I asked Premier @jjhorgan what, in a pandemic, his government owes to the people and those who live with them who are medically vulnerable or immunocompromised? The Minister of Health answered instead. 1/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC #COVID19 / I ask this because @humanrights4bc sent a letter to the PHO arguing that the mask mandate should remain. The letter states, “Lifting the mask mandate will do disproportionate harm to those who are already marginalized”. 2/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC https://bchumanrights.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022.03.16-Letter-to-Bonnie-Henry-End-of-Mask-Mandate.pdf / . @jjhorgan has tasked his gov't with tackling systemic discrimination – it is in the mandate letter of the Minister of Health. And yet, our Human Rights Commissioner said that the sudden removal of the mask mandate will have profound effects on vulnerable people in BC. 3/ #bpcoli / “[…] the mask mandate is not about eliminating risk; it is about sharing the risk burden across society rather than transferring it to a marginalized or medically vulnerable minority.” 4/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / . @humanrights4BC is saying that the decision from this government to remove the mask mandate is harming the most vulnerable in our province. I asked the Premier for his response to the Human Rights Commissioner? There wasn't any. 5/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / . @AdrianDix stood both times and waived their responsibility to British Columbians by putting it all on Dr. Henry. He went on to oppose the view of the Human Rights Commissioner that the decisions from this government are harming vulnerable people in BC. 6/6 #bcpoli #COVID19BC"

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia,  Horgan, John,  Province of British Columbia,  Dix, Adrian,  Govender, Kasari,  Henry, Bonnie

Title: [Experience with COVID-19]

URL: https://twitter.com/npescod/status/1509032790163013633/

Description: Nicholas M. Pescod on Twitter: "Like many others in B.C., I too tested positive for #COVID19 earlier this month. I am only sharing this because I know there are others out there who also tested positive via rapid test or were sick but couldn't get tested at all.🧵 1/ / I am tripled vaccinated and if I am being honest, I didn't even think it was COVID — largely because I never lost my sense of taste or smell, symptoms that others I know experienced. For me, it felt like a sinus infection with a bad cough. 2/ / I also felt really, really tired a lot of the time. Fortunately, I didn't experience any of the really severe symptoms that others have experienced. Sinus pain, cough, sore throat, and really tired! 3/ / I tested positive on a rapid test which took a ridiculous amount of time and effort for me to obtain. This was before they became available for everyone 18+ here in B.C. 4/ / I am fine now but what I will say is I didn't think I had #COVID19 at first and because access to free PCR testing is nearly impossible for most, I just opted to stay home and isolate. Only after someone I know tested positive via PCR, did I manage to get a rapid test. 5/ / I can tell from the comments in previous tweets and in general on here that there are a decent number of tripled vaxed people who became infected this month. It sucks because COVID impacts everyone differently. 6/ / For me, it wasn't so bad (lucky not to experience brain fog or worse) but it wasn't a walk in the park either and I wouldn't want to get it again. I also personally know a few people (none I came in contact with while infectious) who had COVID this month too. 7/ / Anyway, I went on long enough here but the point is #COVID19 is out there. I am curious if anyone has successfully FOI'd their own test results from the province/BCCDC?"

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Subject:   Rapid Antigen Tests,  Pescod, Nicholas

Title: [Jagmeet Singh loves librarians, too]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPCxR7PVkAI8hEV?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Joanna Lord on Twitter: "#respectvirllibrarians strike continues in #duncan today. Thanks for dropping by with your support, Debra Toporowski from @NorthCowichan and @theJagmeetSingh also loves librarians, too😉 Great sign, Patrick, a fair deal is overdue! ✊🏼 @bcgeu #bclab"

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Subject:   Vancouver Island Regional Library,  British Columbia General Employees' Union,  Labour Disputes,  Singh, Jagmeet

Title: [North Cowichan Councillor Debra Toporowski visits BCGEU picket line]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPCxR7OVsAI4pX4?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Joanna Lord on Twitter: "#respectvirllibrarians strike continues in #duncan today. Thanks for dropping by with your support, Debra Toporowski from @NorthCowichan and @theJagmeetSingh also loves librarians, too😉 Great sign, Patrick, a fair deal is overdue! ✊🏼 @bcgeu #bclab"

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Subject:   Vancouver Island Regional Library,  British Columbia General Employees' Union,  Labour Disputes,  Toporowski, Debra

Title: [United Steelworkers member Shaye Anderson visits BCGEU picket line at VIRL Cowichan branch]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPDhfk_XsAA68S7?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Joanna Lord on Twitter: "Thanks for stopping by the #respectvirllibrarians picket line today in #duncan @sandersonNDP @usw1944 @bcgeu #bclab #virl"

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Subject:   Vancouver Island Regional Library,  British Columbia General Employees' Union,  Labour Disputes,  Anderson, Shaye,  United Steelworkers | Local 1-1937