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Activist and ’Star Trek’ star George Takei makes the Vulcan salute alongside key donor Hartley Richardson at the official launch of Toronto’s new We Global Learning Centre.

Learning centre to improve lives worldwide JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The corner of Queen and Parliament streets - once home to the eclectic Marty Millionaire furniture store - has become a hub through which young people will

be able to effect change on a global scale.

The large building at 339 Queen St. E. is now home to WE Charity’s new Global Learning Centre, an impressive high-tech building that gives the youth empowering organization plenty of

space to start their own social enterprises, engage with other youth from around the world, learn about Indigenous reconciliation and more.

With 1.8 million young Canadians - and 3.8 million young people globally - already part of the WE

Movement, the Global Learning Centre gives the charity a 43,000square-foot space from which to do good.

"The social value of what these kids do - so when you actually cal-

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Jooyoung Lee, associate professor of sociology at University of Toronto, suggests that the media and the police should ditch the phrase "known to police" when describing victims of violence.

What does being ’known to police’ mean in Toronto?

Victim advocates say it ’does nothing but victimize and denigrate’ ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com cooperation at that time between the media and the police.

They weren’t as adversarial," he said. "When I started, it was like ’Here’s a copy of the police report.’ You actually got a copy of the occurrence to look at. .

And we got mugshots."

In the ’90s, police were more restrictive with releasing information on a person’s criminal history, and they and the media began using known to police more often.

"In the past, it was referring

to a person who was arrested," Millar said. "But it’s come into common practice now to make references that way to some of the victims."

Rob Lamberti , a retired crime reporter who teaches journalism at Humber College, suggested the term often helps reassure a community that a crime was not random.

"It was a way of saying to our audiences that ’Don’t worry, general society is not at risk or is not a target because this

person (the victim) was known to police and may have exposed himself to a high-risk lifestyle,’" he said. "But the ambiguity has always bothered me. I just wish that we could be specific. Maybe they (police) can’t and they’re trying to meet us halfway."

Louis March, founder of Zero Gun Violence Movement (which works with both murder victims’ families and former inmates), said he has a "major problem" with the term

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CAL MILLAR because it creates a stigma.

"It triggers a response when you say known to police. And that might not be the most beneficial statement if you want to solve the case," he said.

"Once you use that term, people start thinking differently. .

We need to stick to the facts.

Report on the facts of the case."

Jooyoung Lee, associate professor of sociology at University of Toronto, also argues the term shouldn’t be used.

"It unfairly creates the presumption of guilt around the person, who in homicide cases is not around to defend their name," he said. "It’s just another way that society creates the image of a guilty crime victim. .

It creates this idea that a person is guilty of doing something and that’s why they were a victim of a terrible crime."

The term is entrenched in popular culture and the way police and some journalists communicate, the professor noted.

"It is on one hand a very convenient shorthand for describing a person, but when you start to unpack it and scrutinize it, you realize that it’s really leaving out much more than it reveals."

But Millar said journalists should report any information they know.

"And if that’s all they know, that’s what they should be reporting because the public have a right to know."

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t’s a common question for detectives at homicide news conferences: Was the victim (or the suspect if he’s been identified) known to police?

Investigators typically answer the question but decline to provide details.

The term "known to police," particularly when used to describe victims of violence, has become controversial, with some victims’ families speaking out against its use.

Police reportedly used the phrase to describe the three victims of a July 23 shooting at a birthday barbecue in the backyard of the Lewis family home in Scarborough, prompting the family to denounce the term.

"Time and time again it has been noted for its ambiguity and inherent laziness. It does not inform the reader but instead is a device utilized to demean, injure and dehumanize the victim," a family spokesperson told reporters a few days after the shooting. "How does this chorus help the societal interest of fighting crime?

How does it advance the societal interest of informing the public? . Without more, this chorus does nothing but victimize and denigrate. Ultimately, the continued use of this chorus diminishes us all as it seeks to deprive us of empathy and compassion that common humanity requires of all people."

Cal Millar, a retired Toronto crime reporter, said the term, likely coined by journalists, was around when he began his career in the mid-1960s.

"It meant does he have a record. It was a bit of a euphemism," he said.

But today the term can mean more than a criminal record.

"When we are asked, we will say known to police (when) there are charges that have been laid by a police service on this person for a Criminal Code offence," Toronto police spokesperson Const. Jenifferjit Sidhu said. But the term is not used to describe witnesses, victims or those charged with a Highway Traffic Act offence.

It’s also not used to refer to those who have been questioned during a street check, a practice that was referred to as carding in Toronto.

Millar suggested the term was used less in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s because police were more open about the record of an arrested individual or suspect.

"There was probably more

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WHERE: Lawrence Park Community Church, 2180 Bayview Ave., Toronto CONTACT: 416-489-1551 COST: $35 Friday opening. Free Saturday and Sunday Browse through exceptional works from over 30 Canadian artists and help raise funds for worthy charities.Friday evening event is ticketed, Saturday and Sunday day events are free. l Saturday, October 14 Peace of Minds Walk 2017 WHEN: 8:30 a.m - 11:00 a.m WHERE: David Pecaut Square, 215 King St. W., Toronto CONTACT: KNicol@schizophrenia.on.ca Annual Peace of Minds Walk.

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culate the dollars they raise for charity plus the service hours logged as set by the federal government, they’ve created . over $200 million every year supporting 7,000 nonprofits," WE co-founder Craig Kielburger said of the work being done.

The new Global Learning Centre came about through various donations and partnerships, meaning that none of the funds raised by WE youth went toward the creation of the new centre.

"It’s like a science centre to change the world," Kielburger said. "They can spend time in Skype pods to connect around the world, have conversations with Kenya and Ecuador and India.

"We have an incubation centre where students can have their own desks, their own lockers, they can come in as they want."

In that incubation centre, youngsters will come

with an idea and can get the support they need to create their own social enterprise to create change in a variety of areas, from poverty reduction to environmental issues to education and more.

There is also a legacy room created in partnership with the Wenjack family, who gained national attention through the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund, to bring about awareness of Indigenous reconciliation.

Hartley Richardson, one of the key donors, decided to give after seeing the impact the We Movement has on young people and on communities around the world.

Landmark donations from his family and his family’s fund and fellow donor David Aisenstat were crucial in making the new centre a reality.

"It was to become a global learning centre to reach out to the world," he said at the Global Learning Centre’s official launch. "I don’t

look at (the donation) as a gift, I look at it as an investment. I have never come across one where the return on investment has such a broad-reaching impact on young people around the world."

Former United Nations secretary-general Ban Kimoon said the WE Movement has helped make a huge difference in the lives of countless children around the world who do not have the same opportunities as most Canadians.

He pointed to the 65 million children who do not have the opportunity to get an education worldwide, and noted that the We Movement could help by bringing classrooms to remote and underserved areas.

"I am very much touched and moved by what these two brothers (Craig and Marc Kielburger, who cofounded WE as Free the Children) are doing," he said.

In addition to bringing lessons and building brid-

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A facilitator teaches children in Winnipeg in one of the WE Global Learning Centre’s new Skype pods. ges around the world, WE will enable facilitators and teachers to bring programming and education to remote communities within Canada. Talitha Tolles, a WE speaker and Indigenous program co-ordinator, noted that connecting to isolated First Nations communities will be far easier thanks to the Global Learning Centre.

"There were communities we couldn’t access and

now those barriers are being eliminated," she said.

Activist and actor George Takei also attended the launch of the Global Learning Centre, which took place on Wednesday, Sept. 27, the eve of WE Day. He got involved with the WE Movement after being inspired by the organization’s story.

Craig Kielburger started the charity when, at the age of 12, he learned of Iqbal Ma-

sih, a young boy from Pakistan who was forced into child labour at age four and was killed at age 12 - two years for speaking out against child labour.

"When I read up on the charity, I was really impressed by Craig’s energy and enthusiasm," Takei said. "What 12-year-old thinks of doing something like this?"

The Global Learning Centre will offer field trip opportunities, special days where families can get involved, and space for the community at large will be available when the facility in not in use for youth programming and activities.

With the new centre, Kielburger said the WE Movement hopes to grow its reach from 15,000 schools to 25,000 schools and increase its impact from the one million people lifted out of poverty around the world to 2.5 million.

For more information about the charity, visit www.we.org.

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‘A science centre to change the world’: Craig Kielburger

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’Known to police’ are three words that need to go Words always matter – but when they’re put to work talking about the victims and perpetrators of violent crime, from the mouths of police to the pens of journalists, they matter doubly so.

And they should be employed with great care. When someone is accused of murdering someone but not yet convicted, it’s irresponsible of police to call them a murderer, and wrong of reporters to describe them as anything other than the accused.

When police offer up a description from eyewitnesses of a suspect in a crime, it’s the same thing: we speak of a suspect and not a criminal.

When we do this, we are very mindful of the rights and presumptions of the accused - we must presume innocence.

Sadly, we are not nearly so careful about the rights of victims - or the memories of those deceased.

As Metroland Media Toronto’s crime specialist Andrew Palamarchuk tells us this week, both press and police regularly besmirch reputations and destroy memories, by including three simple words – "known to police" – when describing some crime victims.

What does "known to police" mean?

It doesn’t mean that police have carded the individual, or that they’ve called the police for help – so it’s not entirely innocent.

But it also doesn’t necessarily mean that the person has been convicted of a crime.

Police in Toronto use the term when a charge has been laid by police for a Criminal Code offense, of which the person may or may not be guilty.

The term does serve a kind of coded purpose: it lets the public know that a violent crime that took place perhaps not far from their home may have been a result of a dispute between criminals, or in the commission of a criminal act.

It is a comfort.

The problem is, of course, that it really shouldn’t provide comfort. What it does provide is innuendo, against the reputation of people who on the face of it have done nothing worse than find themselves in a bullet’s path.

And those people, and their friends, have every right to take offense. This happened following a July 23 shooting at a backyard party at the Scarborough home of Elma Lewis.

Three people, including her daughter, were shot.

Police used the phrase to describe each of them – to no end other than provide reassurances to the neighbours in the otherwise peaceful Scarborough neighbourhood that for them, nothing had changed.

Reassurance paid for with the innuendo of "known to police" is no reassurance at all.

Words matter, and we need to be more careful with those three.

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Pedestrian deaths stand unmarked on our roads Warden Avenue south of the 401 is brutal and clogged, funneling traffic from the highway over and down a hill to Ellesmere Road.

Trucks cut in, and you can sense frustration. By day, the five lanes crawl. By night, they speed up.

At Continental Place, a plaza restaurant was still busy at 9:30 p.m. last week when a family of four carried their takeout food across Warden.

The mother, 33, and her five-year-old girl were hit by cars going in both directions. The second driver fled.

The next day, a scrap of yellow police tape around a concrete pole was the only sign two young, promising lives had ended violently there.

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto Clint Stibbe, a Toronto traffic services cop, studied the intersection. Would a crosswalk help? No, not if drivers coming up or down the hill can’t see it.

A pedestrian refuge?

They’re made of soft steel, Stibbe said, shaking his head. "If a car hits that, it’s going through it."

Meanwhile, people continued crossing Warden where the family crossed.

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and didn’t know it.

A man of 71 was run down crossing McCowan.

Hours earlier, on Birchmount Road, another pedestrian died, a man of 56.

Murder stains neighbourhoods for years. But pedestrians’ deaths are forgotten. They stand unmarked.

We don’t usually learn their names.

Cyclists leave ghost bikes to mark fatalities. On Bayview Avenue south of 401, there’s one I’ve seen for years. No mistaking its message.

Does Toronto now need ghost pedestrians too? How else can these deaths be seen?

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In recent years, the city installed accessible pedestrian signals down at Ellesmere and at Lupin Drive, a short walk north.

But people cross where they cross; the family, perhaps hurrying to catch a bus, or because dinner was late and the children tired, tried the short way.

Milorad Radiskovic, who lives north of the highway, was walking home. He said drivers barely seem to acknowledge pedestrians are there.

"Where is it better? The downtown? It’s a hell everywhere."

That evening, I left a meeting to find McCowan Road lit up by ambulances and police cruisers beyond the recreation centre driveway. I was looking at another pedestrian death scene,

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A newly opened exhibit at Mackenzie House is revealing the lives of Eaton’s employees who served in the First World War. Eaton’s Goes to War: Family, Memory & Meaning, which makes use of public submissions, runs until Jan. 31, 2018 at Mackenzie House, 82 Bond St. The exhibit also chronicles how the T. Eaton Company supported Canada’s

war efforts, sending 3,327 employee enlistees into the fight. Each time one of those employees went overseas, their photo was displayed prominently in the Toronto store just steps from Mackenzie House.

For more information, go to http:// bit.ly/2tUwdNK. POSTWAR ’BURBS A free photo exhibit il-

lustrating life in Toronto’s postwar suburbs run until August 2018 at 255 Spadina Rd. The Toronto Archives’ Wide Open World: A Celebration of the Suburbs in Toronto exhibit features photographs of people "raising families, building communities, working and celebrating together" in the former suburban neighbourhoods of Etobi-

coke, North York and Scarborough from the 1950s to the 1980s.

For more information, go to www.toronto.ca/archives.

U.S. POINT OF VIEW The Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) invites Torontonians to explore a century of Canada’s history through the lens of our superpower neighbour to the

south’s "newspaper of record" this fall.

The Faraway Nearby exhibit, which runs through to Dec. 10, features select photographs of Canada from the New York Times photo archive that examine "how the country has been understood and discussed in relation to its closest geographical, political, and cultural neighbour."

The exhibition draws

from nearly 25,000 photographs preserved in the New York Times photo archive, to be henceforth known as The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection.

The Faraway Nearby exhibit will be on display at the Ryerson Image Centre, 33 Gould St., until Dec. 10.

For more information and exhibition hours, go to www.ryerson.ca/ric/visitus

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HISTORY EXHIBITS: WW1, the ’burbs and NY Times photos

EGLINTON CROSSTOWN UPDATE: OPEN HOUSE MEETING EGLINTON AND MOUNT PLEASANT STATIONS

Pedestrian Changes at Eglinton Station: Pedestrian Tunnels Closed What work is taking place?

Support of excavation (shoring) for the new Line 5 platform of Eglinton Station will require closure of the underground pedestrian tunnels at Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue leading from the Eglinton Subway Station to the Riocan Yonge-Eglinton Centre.

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Metrolinx is building the Eglinton Crosstown, Toronto’s new 19-kilometre light rail transit (LRT) line that will run along Eglinton Avenue with a central 10 km underground section. The Crosstown will connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and the new service will be up to 60% faster than the bus service today. With 25 stations and stops and connections to 3 TTC subway stations, 54 local bus routes, 3 GO Transit lines and the UP Express, the Crosstown will improve travel times and change the way we move through the heart of the city.

Join Metrolinx and its constructor, Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS) at the upcoming open house and learn about the progress at the future Eglinton and Mount Pleasant Stations.

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The east and north underground pedestrian tunnels are closed. They will remain closed until fall 2021.

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The west underground pedestrian tunnel leading from Eglinton Subway Station to RioCan’s Yonge-Eglinton Centre is now closed. It will remain closed until fall 2021.

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When: Monday, October 16, 2017 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Where: Yonge Eglinton Centre - Centre Court, 2300 Yonge Street

Increased pedestrian traffic above and below ground.

All access to businesses will be maintained.

Sign up at www.thecrosstown.ca/sign-up for construction updates and download the aCrosstown mobile app to get real-time traffic information for the Eglinton corridor.

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condos or creative hubs because they’re more valuable as malls."

Urbanspace president and founder Margie Zeidler said the new tax assessment category for arts hubs would be a welcome reprieve, adding that it would help 401 Richmond tenants stay in place.

"We were pretty close to losing tenants (due to the tax increase) and a lot of people just renewed their leases for a year to see how this all worked out," she said.

A settlement with MPAC that saw the building’s appraised value greatly reduced gave some relief, but it wasn’t enough to ensure tenants would stay, Zeidler noted.

She added that taxes based on highest and best use would price many out.

"MPAC said we should be getting $20 net per square foot from our tenants but we’re getting about $4 net," she said. "If we made them more, we would lose a lot of the tenants we want to have."

The city is expected to discuss the new tax assessment category at council this week, after which it will be presented to the province.

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Once imperilled by a massive tax hike, the 401 Richmond arts hub - and other facilities like it now stand to benefit thanks to the City of Toronto’s efforts to create a new tax assessment category.

The hub, which features 200,000 square feet of space and is dedicated to providing space for established and up-andcoming arts organizations and galleries, saw its property taxes increase 119.5 per cent over four years. Urbanspace Property Group, which owns the building, did its best to absorb the tax hit but had to pass some along to tenants, some of whom then had to increase fees.

Ward 20 Councillor Joe Cressy (Trinity-Spadina) was expected to move a motion to have a new tax assessment category for creative hubs this week to help provide relief to spaces such as 401 Richmond, Artscape Wychwood Barns, the Centre for Social Innovation sites and similar spaces. Thus far, the city has identified 17 properties that would fall into the category, he said.

"The current model of taxation in the province and in the city takes a little too much of a one-sizefits-all approach," he said.

"You see heritage buildings being taxed as though they’re condos and spaces like 401 Richmond, an arts incubator, taxed as though it’s a bunch of Gaps and Starbucks."

The new category would apply to buildings that are at least 5,000 square feet and have at least three tenants, of which at least half must be nonprofits or arts and culture spaces. To qualify, buildings must also provide publicly accessible space and provide belowmarket rent opportunities.

Cressy noted the new tax category would be a move away from the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation’s (MPAC) standard practice of taxing buildings on their "highest and best use."

"The principle we’re looking at is one where taxes are based on actual use, not just highest and best use," he said. "Highest and best use would mean we would lose heritage buildings because they’re more valuable as

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