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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 COVID-19 (Disease) Vancouver Island

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Title: Vancouver Island nurses' testimonials | Capital Daily

URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUAVELgOz9Hmjk1U90IV2HKTwmJ6w3t7f1bMO5Bbr8PoDmQw/viewform

Description: As this 5th wave progresses and hospitalizations reach new peaks every day, we're hearing more than ever that nurses are burnt out, overworked, subjected to unsafe conditions, and more. For anyone who wants to share their experiences and would like to do so safely and without fear of professional consequences, I'd like to invite you to fill out this form.

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Subject:   Island Health,  Capital Daily

Title: PoP BC demands the resignation of Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, Health Minister Adrian Dix; immediate reinstatement of COVID protection measures in all BC schools | Protect Our Province BC

URL: https://protectbc.ca/protect-our-province-demands-resignation-of-pho-hm/

Description: Protect our Province BC calls for the immediate resignation of Dr. Henry and a review of the entire leadership of BC Public Health, who have participated either directly or indirectly in the deception with regards to COVID infection risks in schools.

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Burnaby Beacon,  Capital Daily ,  BC Centre for Disease Control Filiatrault, Lyne Heighton, Jennifer Eby, David Lauterbach, Karl Whiteside, Jennifer Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education

Title: [Sonia Furstenau questions Adrian Dix "about Island Health being overrun with patients"] | BC Today

URL: https://twitter.com/BCTodayOfficial/status/1519009240915931137/

Description: BC Today on Twitter: ". @SoniaFurstenau follows up on @brish_ti 's reporting for @CapitalDailyVic about Island Health being overrun with patients. She asks health Minister @adriandix to affirm people seeking care won't be turned away from hospitals #bcpoli / Dix states that the memo referenced in @CapitalDailyVic 's reporting - discussing acquiring hotel rooms - was about patients ready for rehabilitation #bcpoli / Furstenau follows up, saying BC's #Covid19 data is so patchy, people are learning about the continuing impact of the pandemic from reporters not public officials. Dix maintains BC regularly reports useful information about Covid. "Transparency is important," he says #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia Dix, Adrian Island Health,  Capital Daily

Title: [Capital Daily and Ricochet Media investigate pepper spray incident at Fairy Creek] | Capital Daily

URL: https://twitter.com/CapitalDailyVic/status/1455172875938263042/

Description: Capital Daily on Twitter: "On Aug. 21, RCMP officers pepper sprayed protesters at #FairyCreek. They say they did so to protect an officer—who they claim was pushed—from a hostile crowd. A joint investigation by @CapitalDailyVic and @ricochet_en has found none of that is true. https://capitaldaily.ca/news/rcmp-pepper-spray-fairy-creek-investigation / The investigation was sparked by a routine due-diligence check after the #RCMP told @JackieLamport their reasoning. We asked for any records that could back up the police story. None was provided. / Video footage emerged soon after the pepper spray incident, however. We watched more than 90 minutes of footage, frame-by-frame, from nine different angles. It directly contradicts what the RCMP said happened. / On the question of the police officer being pushed: there is no evidence. On the question of the officer being unconscious: there is no evidence. In an affidavit, a commanding officer says the officer himself doesn't know if he was unconscious at any point. / On the question of the officer needing rescue: video shows he was able to move away from the crowd on his own within seconds. The police did not use pepper spray for another 4 minutes and 40 seconds from the moment he fell. / On the question of the crowd being hostile and presenting a danger to the officer: video shows that the crowd moved away immediately on noticing he had fallen. People within and outside the crowd signalled and shouted to one another to move away. / On the question of the officer needing evacuation: video shows the officer participated in an arrest after he fell. He walked away from the scene. Paramedics say they did not evacuate him; police then said he was taken by police helicopter to a hospital. / We have asked the RCMP repeatedly for any evidence to back up their claims, which could include flight records, body-cam footage, hospital records, an interview with the officer who fell, or any other evidence. None has been provided. / This reporting was made possible by the generous support of the Misinformation Project by @jhrnews . If you want to see more work like it, please consider becoming a Capital Daily member at https://capitaldaily.ca/member."

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Subject:   Capital Daily ,  Ricochet Media Journalism Royal Canadian Mounted Police Fairy Creek Old-Growth Logging Protests Logging Protests and Blockades

Title: [Brishti Basu from Capital Daily is looking for stories from Island Health nurses] | Protect Our Province BC

URL: https://twitter.com/Protect_BC/status/1485775261589114881/

Description: Protect Our Province BC on Twitter: "If you are a @VanIslandHealth nurse, please share your anonymous stories using the link below. @brish_ti @CapitalDailyVic would like to hear from you. Your voice matters. @Protect_BC supports HCW in #bcpoli as you face enormous strains in this 5th wave."

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC Island Health Basu, Brishti,  Capital Daily

Title: [Comments on government's accountability to the public regarding COVID-19 transmissions in schools]

URL: https://twitter.com/SoniaFurstenau/status/1584980372785594368/

Description: Sonia Furstenau on Twitter: "Today I asked @AdrianDix to explain how we can trust his or the PHO’s word after this @CapitalDailyVic & @bbybeacon story. BCers have been misled about #COVID19 transmissions in schools. There needs to be accountability. 1/ #bcpoli #bced #COVID19BC / Before a press conference in 2020, Dr Henry wrote to staff “We need to be able to give some data that supports what we keep saying - transmission in schools is low,” 2/ #bcpoli #bced #COVID19BC / The PHO and this government were trying to find data to support the narrative that Covid was not spreading among children in schools. At the same time as telling teachers and parents that the reality they were experiencing was false. 3/ #bcpoli #bced #COVID19BC / Even more damning is the study co-authored by Dr Henry from that same time period found that students were responsible for close to half of all COVID transmission in communities. 4/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / This study, co-authored by the PHO found that COVID spread among kids was 92 times higher than what this government was reporting. 5/ #bcpoli #bced #COVID19BC / . @AdrianDix responded by saying that they’ve done a fantastic job and that the story is not worthy of a question. Accountability to the public is not something the @bcndp values. 6/6 #bcpoli #bced #COVID19BC"

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia Dix, Adrian Henry, Bonnie,  Capital Daily ,  Burnaby Beacon Province of British Columbia

Title: Emails show Dr. Bonnie Henry knew of concerns over BC’s COVID-19 data and school exposures while publicly downplaying them | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/henry-stanwick-covid-school-exposures-emails/

Description: Internal emails show BC public health leaders, including provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, had concerns about the quality of COVID-19 transmission data collected in schools—and that those concerns persisted in private, months after officials had started making claims to the media and the public on a regular basis that the risk of transmission in schools was very low.

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie,  Capital Daily ,  Burnaby Beacon Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Gustafson, Réka Daly, Patricia Brodkin, Elizabeth Galanis, Eleni Docking, Christine Interior Health Northern Health Vancouver Coastal Health Fraser Health Howe, Carolyn Greater Victoria School District Island Health Stanwick, Richard Hoyano, Dee British Columbia Teachers' Federation Greater Victoria Teachers' Association BC Centre for Disease Control Mooring, Teri Waldron, Winona Ventilation

Title: Island teachers, parents report high absences, illnesses amid lack of public health data | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/island-teachers-parents-report-high-absences-illnesses-amid-lack-of-public-health-data/

Description: Teachers and parents on Vancouver Island are seeing widespread sickness and absences among K-12 students and staff, amid a continued lack of infection prevention measures in classrooms.

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Subject:   Influenza Rapid Antigen Tests Island Health Province of British Columbia BC School Covid Tracker Rossman, Andrea Marliss, Kathy Greater Victoria School District Greater Victoria Teachers' Association,  Capital Daily ,  Burnaby Beacon Stanwick, Richard Henry, Bonnie

Title: B.C. health minister defends Dr. Bonnie Henry in legislature over response to COVID-19 transmission in schools | CBC News

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6629568

Description: B.C.'s Health Minister defended Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry in the legislature on Tuesday, after the leader of the B.C. Green Party said British Columbians have been misled about COVID-19 transmissions in schools.

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Subject:   Dix, Adrian Henry, Bonnie Furstenau, Sonia Burnaby Beacon,  Capital Daily ,  Stanwick, Richard Protect Our Province BC Filiatrault, Lyne

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