> Paper dresses Design formation students have their class projects showcased at Oakridge Centre. P4 Paul Eberhardt receives time. P8 Coach of the year PacWest accolades for the third Local art heals First Nations art donated to Vancouver hospitals. Photo gallery at langaravoice.ca re Ge XQ > PRODUCED BY LANGARA JOURNALISM STUDENTS | WWW.LANGARAVOICE.CA MARCH 9, 2017+ VOL. 48 NO. 34 * VANCOUVER, B.C. More is me Club Eden is a ‘swingers, or lifestyle club, that throws private parties in the Lower Mainland, attracting those in non-traditional relationships. susiiTTED PHOTO Botched facelift hurt logo Students offer their solutions to city’s brand design drama By SYDNEY MORTON angara College design for- mation program students have some advice for the City of Vancouver with regards to its maligned new logo. Two weeks ago, the city rolled out a new logo that was reviled by the public and has since been revoked. Students said that instead of a com- plete redesign, the city should have spent money on a manual which op- erates like a brand identity book, that would explain in detail how to display the existing logo properly. “They needed to make a manual and didn’t need to redo the whole thing,” Lisa Feijo, a Design Forma- tion student, said add- ing that the existing logo properly repre- OY sented the atmosphere Vancouverites create CITY OF VANCOUVER CITY OF VANCOUVER couver’s design community asked the city to reject the new logo and its $8,000 price tag. “What they could have done and should have done was either play around with the propor- tions of the flower com- pared to the logo,” Brian- nah Cristofoli, a Design Formation student, said around the city. “The new logo is super bold and aggressive. That is not what Vancouver is,” she said. A letter signed by members of Van- adding that it seemed they hired someone on the cheap to simplify the existing logo. Brock Ellis, a designer who gained popularity for releasing the letter to the city, said his biggest problem was that the logo was not representing Vancou- ver. “They realized they got it wrong. There was only so long [the drama] could sustain itself in public and they could have dug their heels in, but they didn’t,” Ellis said. When asked by CBC reporters last week, Mayor Gregor Robertson was visibly flustered on camera but defend- ed the city’s process. “We will be work- ing with designers to create a better logo, to do some consultation,” he said. Vancouver wont be a sanctuary Refugees to get limited services By RICA TALAY T hough Mayor Gregor Robert- son pledged to make Vancou- ver a sanctuary city two years ago, the lack of essential services legally available to refugees and immigrants still leaves this community at risk. A sanctuary city shelters illegal refu- gees and immigrants and does not per- mit police or municipal employees to inquire about one’s immigration status. Instead, Vancouver adopted what has become known as the "Access With- out Fear" policy in 2016, which allows refugees and immigrants to access city services like libraries and community centres, but essential services like police According to City Coun. Geoff Meggs, the city can’t promise a safe place for people who might be facing arrest or deportation. “[Groups providing services to un- documented individuals] strongly rec- ommended that we not call ourselves a sanctuary city because of the confusion it would cause,” he said. “We're as close as we can get right now in my opinion.” Jen Rashleigh, founder of Growing Eden, a garden- ing group for refugee, low- income and im- migrant families said she has seen the numbers steadily rising in South Vancouver. “T think it’s a bit cheaper to find ac- commodation [...] There’s definitely a huge demand and a huge need,” she “We're as close as we can get.” — GEOFF MEGGS, CITY COUNCILLOR said. “It is those most marginalized in society who need social services.” Kwangyoung Conn, a settlement worker at South Vancouver Neigh- bourhood House who helps refugees get jobs, said she supports an official sanctuary city status and is calling for a long-term plan to address resources. “You have a house doesn’t mean you can invite somebody, you got to have food," Conn said. Legalize drugs, advocates implore Harm reduction strate- gies used to combat opioid overdoses By SAM MOWERS n response to the current opioid crisis, Langara College hosted a harm reduction fair on March 1 to educate students and faculty about al- ternative overdose policies. Because of Vancouver's opioid crisis, some advocates are questioning wheth- er the city's drug policies go far enough, calling for a revised drug policy. In 2016, the BC Coroners Service recorded 922 deaths from drug over- doses, a significant jump from 513 the year before. Jasneet Dhaliwal, a Langara nursing student who was at the harm reduction fair, said the best way to tackle the crisis is through information about the dan- gers of drug use. “We've definitely taken the harm re- duction approach, and I think the main approach has been education,” she said. “We want to get the information out there that there is a risk.” The harm reduction model has re- placed the old policy of zero tolerance, which punished users without taking the context of their use into account. Instead, the City of Vancouver uses a four-pillar ap- proach, consisting of harm reduction, prevention, treat- : ment and enforce- Tim Dyck ment. CENTRE FOR ADDIC- Christopher Van liane tlel Veen, an urban _ health planner with the City of Vancouver, said the four pillars approach brings people with dif- ferent views together, with some groups advocating legalization as an effective harm reduction strategy. “Drugs are illegal,” he said. “We can’t really do anything until there’s legislative changes federally to address prohibition.” Tim Dyck, a research associate at the Centre for Addictions Research of B.C. said that legalizations of drugs may not solve everything, but would help by making use of dangerous sub- stances safer because ingredients would be monitored. “There’s not the same protections in- volved as we would have in a regulated system, in terms of the nature of the product and the strength of it,” he said. “Harm reduction comes from a position of acknowledging that people use. And that they have a right to use.”