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COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North)

Collected by: Vancouver Island University

Archived since: Mar, 2020

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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]

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Title: SOS: Put kids' safety first | YouTube | Protect Our Province BC

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vehKFtVv3Wk

Description: We all want schools open. How do we make them safe? PoP BC will host a panel, including Dr. Colin Furness, to discuss the school & daycare measures BC needs to protect kids and school staff against Omicron.

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Day Care Centres,  Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  BC School Covid Tracker

Title: #FireBonnie—there, someone in the media finally said it! | Georgia Straight

URL: https://www.straight.com/covid-19-pandemic/news/firebonnie-there-someone-in-media-finally-said-it/

Description: The provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, is only one of many chefs in this noxious kitchen that is spreading COVID-19 across our province. And that is generating tremendous fear in the immunocompromised, those with comorbidities, and their families.

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie Dix, Adrian Horgan, John Eby, David Simons, Nicholas Whiteside, Jennifer Fleming, Rob BC Ferries Russell, Joy TransLink Protect Our Province BC,  Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  BC School Covid Tracker Vaccinations Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Govender, Kasari

Title: Confused by B.C. government's approach to containing spread of COVID-19? Here are three papers offering guidance | Georgia Straight

URL: https://www.straight.com/covid-19-pandemic/living/confused-by-bc-governments-approach-to-containing-spread-of-covid-19-here-are-three-papers/

Description: As K-12 students are about to return to classrooms and thousands of university students move into dormitories, there are growing fears of a new wave of COVID-19 because of the lack of a provincewide indoor mask mandate and the lack of public education about airborne transmission. With that in mind, I'm sharing the results of three studies published this year in peer-reviewed journals.

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia Province of British Columbia Ventilation BC Green Party BC Liberal Party New Democratic Party of British Columbia TransLink BC Ferries European Organization for Nuclear Research University of Bristol Alpha Variant Variants of Concern,  Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Delta Variant Omicron Variant American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Dix, Adrian Whiteside, Jennifer

Title: B.C. government gets a failing grade from safe schools coalition | Georgia Straight

URL: https://www.straight.com/covid-19-pandemic/education/bc-government-gets-a-failing-grade-from-safe-schools-coalition/

Description: A parent and a teacher with the group think that airborne COVID needs to be taken far more seriously by those overseeing public health and the K-12 education system.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia,  Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Martins, Kyenta Ventilation Ford, Doug Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Vaccinations Vancouver School Board Pataky, Dave American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes Henry, Bonnie Jimenez, Jose-Luis Greenhalgh, Trisha Fisman, David Heighton, Jennifer Dix, Adrian Long COVID

Title: Open letter calling on Premier Eby, Ministers Dix and Whiteside to reinstate universal masking immediately | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://www.safeschoolscoalitionbc.com/2022/11/14/open-letter-calling-on-premier-eby-ministers-dix-and-whiteside-to-reinstate-universal-masking-immediately-2/

Description: Protect our Province BC, Safe Schools Coalition BC, BC School Covid Tracker, and Masks 4 East Van call on BC’s new Premier, David Eby, Health Minister Adrian Dix, and Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside to immediately require universal masking in all indoor public spaces, including schools.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  BC School Covid Tracker Protect our Province BC Masks4EastVan Eby, David Dix, Adrian Whiteside, Jennifer Province of British Columbia Respiratory Syncytial Virus Influenza Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario BC Children's Hospital Tam, Theresa Ventilation Govender, Kasari Omicron Variant Variants of Concern

Title: BC advocacy groups, including Safe Schools Coalition BC, demand stronger COVID-19 safety for schools | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://www.safeschoolscoalitionbc.com/2022/08/29/bc-advocacy-groups-including-safe-schools-coalition-bc-demand-stronger-covid-19-safetyfor-schools/

Description: Safe Schools Coalition BC is joining up with Protect Our Province BC, BC School Covid Tracker, Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition and other allies to demand stronger COVID-19 safety protocols in BC schools.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Protect Our Province BC BC School Covid Tracker Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition Dix, Adrian Whiteside, Jennifer Ventilation Omicron Variant Variants of Concern BC Centre for Disease Control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Province of British Columbia Government of Canada Vaccinations Long COVID

Title: Safe Schools Coalition BC calls for universal masking in K-12 schools | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://www.safeschoolscoalitionbc.com/2022/03/20/safe-schools-coalition-bc-calls-for-universal-masking-in-k-12-schools/

Description: This is a call to action to all education stakeholders and leaders who contribute to and carry out education policy in BC’s K-12 schools, to continue universal masking for staff and students, instead of removing the mandate after spring break.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Whiteside, Jennifer BC Centre for Disease Control BC School Trustees Association BC Principals' and Vice-Principals' Association BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils First Nations Education Steering Committee British Columbia Teachers' Federation Canadian Union of Public Employees British Columbia Horgan, John Vaccinations Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Long COVID Francis, June

Title: Letter to the editor: ‘I have never been so scared to return to work and to leave my child’ | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://www.safeschoolscoalitionbc.com/2022/01/06/letter-to-the-editor-i-have-never-been-so-scared-to-return-to-work-and-to-leave-my-child/

Description: Safe Schools Coalition BC continues to receive letters from across British Columbia written by parents and educators who are concerned with the shortcomings of the government's public health response to COVID-19. This is another one of those letters.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Vaccinations Province of British Columbia

Title: Letter to the editor: ‘Our only option is to keep our children home’ | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://www.safeschoolscoalitionbc.com/2022/01/05/letter-to-the-editor-our-only-option-is-to-keep-our-children-home/

Description: We continue to receive letters from around British Columbia from citizens that express their concerns to Safe Schools Coalition BC about the way the BC government is handling the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of those letters.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Horgan, John Henry, Bonnie Dix, Adrian Whiteside, Jennifer Ventilation Vaccinations Rapid Antigen Tests

Title: Parent opinion: ‘I do not feel comfortable sending my child to school’ | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://www.safeschoolscoalitionbc.com/2022/01/02/parent-opinion-i-do-not-feel-comfortable-sending-my-child-to-school/

Description: From time to time, parents from around British Columbia contact Safe Schools Coalition BC to express their concerns regarding the direction the BC government, and its public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, is going. This is one of those letters, written to us today from an anonymous parent situated in Victoria, BC.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Ventilation Province of British Columbia

Title: Open letter to BC Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://www.safeschoolscoalitionbc.com/2021/12/29/open-letter-to-bc-education-minister-jennifer-whiteside/

Description: Safe Schools Coalition BC recognizes that Omicron puts us in an emergency situation.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Whiteside, Jennifer Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education Ventilation Rapid Antigen Tests Public Health Agency of Canada Tam, Theresa Vaccinations

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

Title: Statement: BC misses COVID-19 exposure notification reintroduction deadline | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://www.safeschoolscoalitionbc.com/2021/09/24/statement-bc-misses-covid-19-exposure-notification-reintroduction-deadline/

Description: Safe Schools Coalition BC hoped that the British Columbia Provincial Health Office, and Ministry of Health, would stick to their commitment of making COVID-19 exposure data in schools transparent and accessible by today, as was promised earlier in the week on Tuesday, September 21. Unfortunately, no announcement or further information released today about the new process continues a trend from this government of not meeting the needs of BC residents to make informed decisions to mitigate risks in schools.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health

Title: School exposure notifications: An FOI project | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://www.safeschoolscoalitionbc.com/2021/09/20/school-exposure-notifications-an-foi-project/

Description: The British Columbia Ministry of Health, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, and the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control have decided to no longer issue school-wide COVID-19 exposure notifications. It is imperative we make the British Columbia government rethink this position.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Henry, Bonnie BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: BC advocacy groups call on government to reinstate mandatory mask protection in all indoor public spaces | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/bc-advocacy-groups-call-on-government-to-reinstate-mandatory-mask-protection-in-all-indoor-public-spaces-1010667/

Description: A collection of BC advocacy groups are coming together and calling on the Province to reinstate the mask mandate in indoor public spaces, businesses, schools and on public transit.

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC,  Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  BC School Covid Tracker Omicron Variant Variants of Concern BC Ferries British Columbia's Office of the Human Rights Commissioner

Title: Petition: Caring communities: Keep masks in BC schools! | Change.org

URL: https://www.change.org/p/caring-communities-keep-masks-in-bc-schools/

Description: Now is not the time to remove simple protections. If we keep the protections we have now, for the 2021/22 school year, we will keep everyone healthier and safer.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Henry, Bonnie Ventilation Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Long COVID Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome

Title: COVID-19: Parents, teachers have little confidence in B.C.'s return-to-school plan | Vancouver Sun

URL: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/covid-19-parents-teachers-have-little-confidence-in-return-to-school-plan/

Description: A coalition of parents and teachers in B.C. has given the province’s return to school plan a failing grade.

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Subject:   Heighton, Jennifer Henry, Bonnie,  Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Ventilation Whiteside, Jennifer Province of British Columbia British Columbia Teachers' Federation Vaccinations

Title: Parents and teachers demand transparency on COVID-19 in schools | The Tyee

URL: https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/09/23/Parents-Teachers-Demand-Transparency-COVID-19-Schools/

Description: Dr. Bonnie Henry has said notifications will improve, but some fear the information won’t be enough.

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie Mooring, Teri British Columbia Teachers' Federation BC School Covid Tracker Chilliwack School District Langley School District Fraser Health Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Marliss, Kathy,  Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Delta Variant Variants of Concern

Title: [Slide deck for] POP BC briefing #8: SOS - put kids' safety first | Protect Our Province BC

URL: https://protectbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/B8-SOS-Kids-Safety.pdf

Description: Slide deck from Protect Our Province BC's 8th briefing: SOS - Put Kids' Safety First.

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC,  Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  BC School Covid Tracker

Title: POP BC briefing #8: SOS - put kids' safety first | Protect Our Province BC

URL: https://protectbc.ca/sos-put-kids-safety-first/

Description: POP BC Briefing #8: SOS – Put Kids’ Safety First January 6, 2022 COVID-19, Schools, and Children: Debunking the Myths BC’s politicians and public health leaders seem to have abandoned all ideas of preventing the rapid growth of Omicron, telling both businesses and schools to prepare for “functional closures”, with widespread illness expected to disable the ability to operate due to lack of staff. What does this mean for our children, to let COVID-19 spread through their population, when only 40% of 5 to 11 year-olds have received just one dose of vaccine, and all children under 5 are unvaccinated?

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Furness, Colin Heighton, Jennifer Ferreira, Jaclyn Hardie, Brenda Day Care Centres,  Safe Schools Coalition BC

Title: Protect Our Province BC, Safe Schools Coalition BC and BC School Covid Tracker issue joint press release | Protect Our Province BC

URL: https://protectbc.ca/protect-our-province-bc-safe-schools-coalition-bc-and-bc-school-covid-tracker-issue-joint-press-release/

Description: Protect Our Province BC, Safe Schools Coalition BC and BC School COVID Tracker are coming together to ask for mask protection in indoor public spaces, businesses, schools and on public transit in BC.

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC,  Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  BC School Covid Tracker Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Russell, Joy TransLink Vaccinations Ventilation BC Ferries British Columbia's Office of the Human Rights Commissioner

Title: Phone zap talking points | Safe Schools Coalition BC

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

Description: SafeSchoolsCoalitionBC on Twitter: "Today's the day. If you think planning nothing for #bced but rolling closures isn't good enough, we need your support in telling the #bcpoli government. Let's fill their inboxes with what we want for our children and educators. #BCedEnhancedMeasures Updated contact details:"

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Province of British Columbia Whiteside, Jennifer Horgan, John Farnworth, Mike Dix, Adrian Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Ventilation Rapid Antigen Tests Vaccinations

Title: Storm warning: #BCedEnhancedMeasures Twitter storm | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FINZ6GwVEAAhKk4?format=png&name=small

Description: SafeSchoolsCoalitionBC on Twitter: "Join us in making our voices heard. Tuesday, Jan. 4 between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Use the hashtag #BCedEnhancedMeasures for another twitter storm for #bced school safety. Let #bcpoli know, we want our children to be kept safe and protected against #COVID19 #Omicron"

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Twitter Social Media Omicron Variant Variants of Concern

Title: Rally for BC K-12 COVID-safe schools | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8On7l7UUAEipjF?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Jennifer Heighton on Twitter: "BC citizens- it’s time to demand #CovidSafe schools from @bcndp @JM_Whiteside ! If they want open schools, they need to make them safe. Delta v demands it. Our kids deserve it. Join us on Saturday, August 14! Spread the word. #SafeSchoolsCoalition #COVIDisAirborne #SafeBCED"

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Whiteside, Jennifer Delta Variant Variants of Concern

Title: We're not in a "good place" now. Please wear your mask! | Protect Our Province BC

URL: https://mailchi.mp/ee99990028f6/its-been-a-busy-week-for-pop-bc-9129361/

Description: On November 15, Protect Our Province BC, Safe Schools Coalition BC, BC School Covid Tracker and Masks 4 East Van released a Joint Open Letter calling on Premier Eby, Ministers Dix and Whiteside to immediately reinstate universal mask protections in public indoor spaces.

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC,  Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  BC School Covid Tracker Masks4EastVan Eby, David Dix, Adrian Whiteside, Jennifer Respiratory Syncytial Virus Influenza Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Tam, Theresa Henry, Bonnie Vaccinations Applewhaite, Christopher Kuo, Susan Heighton, Jennifer Hardie, Brenda Filiatrault, Lyne Fuller, Sylvia

Title: Newsletter update | [November 2022] | Sonia Furstenau

URL: https://mailchi.mp/414f8c550dec/provincial-vaccine-rollout-14193283/

Description: We’ve been living with the COVID-19 virus for nearly 3 years, and I think it’s safe to say we’re all exhausted. I wish I could say we’re almost in the clear, but unfortunately that is not the case.

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia Long COVID Influenza Respiratory Syncytial Virus Protect Our Province BC,  Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  BC Children's Hospital Province of British Columbia Eby, David

Title: COVID-19 in B.C.: Advocacy group calls for mask mandate to stay in schools | CTV News

URL: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/advocacy-group-calls-for-mask-mandate-to-stay-in-b-c-schools-1.5827967

Description: With most B.C. schools in the middle of spring break, an advocacy group is calling on the province to keep a mask mandate in place, rather than lifting it when students return to class.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Henry, Bonnie Vaccinations

Title: B.C. school closures: 3 due to COVID-19 in 1 week | CTV News

URL: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/3-functional-closures-of-b-c-schools-since-students-returned-to-in-person-learning-1.5742376

Description: It’s been one week since students returned to the classroom for in-person learning since the extended three-week winter break, and already, there have been three schools forced to briefly shut down.

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Subject:   Armstrong Elementary School School District 83 North Okanagan-Shuswap Gomme, Graham Mooring, Teri North Okanagan-Shuswap Teachers Association Heighton, Jennifer,  Safe Schools Coalition BC ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Vitacore Industries Inc. Moore, Mikhail Hazelton Secondary School Coast Mountains School District Bibleway Christian Academy Ventilation British Columbia Teachers' Federation

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