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Building a Digital Memorial for Lives Lost to COVID-19

Building a Digital Memorial for Lives Lost to COVID-19

In November of 2022, we began work on a new initiative: Remembering Lives Not Numbers. This project aims to collect the names and life stories of the Saskatchewan victims of the COVID pandemic. This project emerged as our SSHRC-funded research team gathered thousands...

Linking Mental Health and Substance Use During the Pandemic

Linking Mental Health and Substance Use During the Pandemic

The Remember Rebuild Team has been working hard to gather and analyze data on mental health and substance use in Saskatchewan. While our analysis is still underway, the two charts below are a great snapshot of some of analytical trends we've identified. This map shows...

Housing and Food Security During Saskatchewan’s Pandemic

Housing and Food Security During Saskatchewan’s Pandemic

In the Fall of 2022, the Build Back Better research team--part of the RRSK project--concluded a provincial survey exploring how the pandemic affected four key areas of health equity: housing access, food security, mental health, and substance use. Below we present...

Archiving Twitter During the Upheaval

Archiving Twitter During the Upheaval

By Derek Cameron When Jim Clifford and I started archiving the Canadian conversations about COVID-19 on Twitter, it did not seem an urgent task. While Musk had made overtures to buy twitter on 13 April 2022, he had cooled by May. Similarly, we didn’t have...

Partnership with Archives Unleashed and the Internet Archive

Partnership with Archives Unleashed and the Internet Archive

We are excited to announce that our Saskatchewan’s Covid-19 project was one of five teams chosen to participate in the 2022-23 cohort of the Archives Unleased program. The Unleased team has received two Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants grants to build tools that help researchers search and analyze web archives.

Population Survey on the Wider Impacts of COVID-19

Population Survey on the Wider Impacts of COVID-19

Survey development and launch In August, the Remember Rebuild team launched a survey exploring how COVID affected the four pillars of health equity in Saskatchewan: housing access, food security, mental health, and substance use. This innovative survey was developed...