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City of Toronto chief curator of Museums and Heritage Services Wayne Reeves finds some military artifacts in the now packed away York Collection at the city’s storage building in Liberty Village.

York’s history in storage after museum closure AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com Photographs capturing moments in the former City of York sit protected inside a storage fa-

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Also in the facility are physical artifacts like an oversized model of a Kodak Instamatic 104 camera once used in stores to showcase the product - one of

many produced by the company that was once home to a major manufacturing facility in Mount Dennis.

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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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l Saturday, October 7 Weston Farmers’ Market WHEN: 7:00 a.m - 2:00 p.m WHERE: Weston GO Station, 1865 Weston Rd., Toronto CONTACT: Weston Village BIA, admin@westonvillagebia.com COST: Weston Farmers’ Market happens every Saturday until Oct. 28.

Progressive Euchre WHEN: 1:30 p.m - 5:00 p.m WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd, Toronto CONTACT: 416-767-0231 COST: $6 Enjoy an afternoon of cards, two Saturdays a month. Registration at 1:30 pm. Play (10 games) begins at 2 pm. Cash prizes. Cash bar. 19+ welcome. l Tuesday, October 10 Centro Esperanza for Spanish speaking older aldults WHEN: 8:30 a.m - 3:30 p.m WHERE: York West Active Living

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l Friday, October 6 Baby Time WHEN: 10:30 a.m - 11:00 a.m WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St., Toronto CONTACT: 416-394-1014 COST: Bouncing and tickling rhymes, songs and stories for babies from birth to 18 months with their parents and caregivers. Drop in.

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Centre, 1901 Weston Road, Toronto CONTACT: Rita Orellana, 416-245-4395 COST: $30 Centro Esperanza is a lively Centre for Spanish-speaking older adults (55+), where they have the opportunity to learn and improve their English and computer skills.

Weston Collegiate Reunion WHEN: 11:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m WHERE: Weston Collegiate Institute, 100 Pine Street, Toronto CONTACT: rosscjr@hotmail.com 160 Reunion Event, open house, staff brunch, pub, tea room, decades rooms.

l Wednesday, October 11 Teen Gaming Tournament WHEN: 4:00 p.m - 5:30 p.m WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave., Toronto CONTACT: Richard COST: Playstation 3 tournament. Everyone is welcome and prizes for the winners

Robotics Bootcamp for Kids WHEN: 1:30 p.m - 3:00 p.m WHERE: Mount Dennis Branch, Toronto Public Library, 1123 Weston Road, Toronto CONTACT: 647-409-1423 COST: $15 This RoboSeeds bootcamp is a unique opportunity for children (grades 4-7) to learn about the future technology that will change the world.

Building 9 on the old Kodak lands is moved in August 2016 so that construction can begin on the foundation of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT’s Mount Dennis station.

l Friday, October 20 Karaoke WHEN: 8:30 p.m - 1:30 a.m WHERE: RCL Mount Dennis Branch 31, 1050 Weston Road , Toronto CONTACT: Mount Dennis Legion, 416-767-0231, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: Karaoke with host Peter DeBruin.

Cash bar. Come out and sing!

Residents are being invited to an open house to learn about the progress of the future Mount Dennis station for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. The open house will happen at York Memorial Collegiate Institute, 2690 Eglinton Ave. W., Wednesday, Oct. 8. It runs from 6:30

l Saturday, October 14 Hurricane Hazel Walk WHEN: 10:30 a.m - 12:30 p.m WHERE: Old Mill Subway Station , 2672 Bloor Street West, Toronto CONTACT: torontofieldnaturalists.org The walk starts at Old Mill subway station and heads north to Lambton House. The walk includes a steep set of stairs down and 2.6 km historical walk along the Humber River.

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Update meeting on future station to 8 p.m.

Attendees will meet representatives from Metrolinx and its constructor, Crosslinx Transit Solutions, to learn about the progress at the future station, rail corridor and the Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facility (EMSF).

The Crosstown is a light

rail transit (LRT) line that will run across Eglinton Avenue between Mount Dennis (Weston Road) and Kennedy Station. This 19kilometre corridor will include a 10-kilometre underground portion, between Keele Street and Laird Drive. It is expected to open in 2021.

Join the TTC Advisory Committee on Accessible Transit The TTC Advisory Committee on Accessible Transit (ACAT) drives ongoing public participation in decisions affecting accessible public transit in the City of Toronto.

The Committee is comprised of volunteer members and reports to the Board of the TTC. Five (5) volunteer positions on the committee are open for a three-year term. Interested applicants must attend an information session at Toronto City Hall, 100 Queens Street W., Committee Room 2: Tuesday, October 10 from 1 to 2:30 p.m., or Tuesday, October 17 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

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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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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,

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?

Reach Edges columnist Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com

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"Most of them are photographs of former City of York neighbourhoods like Mount Dennis, Weston," said chief curator Wayne Reeves. "In terms of the three-dimensional artifacts, most of them date from the early 20th century and relate to various homes, schools and businesses in the neighbourhood."

Reeves added the collection also includes First Nation objects that date back thousands of years, bound copies of newspapers and items relating to the former Kodak factory.

The collection used to be located in its own museum located inside the Centennial Recreation Centre West at 2694 Eglinton Ave. W. near Keele Street.

But it was closed earlier this year because Parks, Forestry and Recreation needed the space for more

youth programming for youth in the area.

"The museum was not a high-use facility in that location and needed appointments," said Howie Dayton, director of community recreation at Parks, Forestry and Recreation. "In discussions with Museums (and Heritage Services), the stars sort of aligned that we were able to use the space more effectively."

Karen Edwards, acting manager of museums at Museums and Heritage Services, told The York Guardian that staff are looking into finding a space for a temporary exhibit to showcase some of the collection.

"There’s a few options and they’re doing some investigations to try and track that down," she said.

"As far as I know, nothing has been secured at this point but it’s an ongoing process to try and find that."

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City of Toronto chief curator of Museums and Heritage Services Wayne Reeves gets a closer look at an oversized Instamatic camera model from the Kodak factory in Mount Dennis.

Reeves said they would like to work with partners within York to showcase the pieces.

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"There’s absolutely no inclination to remove any of the objects from the collection and dispose of

them through transfer to other bodies or anything like that," he said. "At this time, what we’ll be looking

for in the future is to see if we can obtain the resources to do scanning of the photos in the collection and perhaps provide some digital access online."

The collection itself can still be viewed by appointment only since the storage facility is not open to the public.

Reeves said those who are interested in seeing the artifacts should be specific as possible with staff as to what they are looking for.

"Because everything is boxed and wrapped, it’s not as if we can unbox and unwrap every single thing," he said. "But again, if you say, ’I’m really interested in the First World War and what happened in York Township,’ we would be able to provide very specific information on what artifacts we have."

Those interested in seeing the York Collection can email tohistoricsites@toronto.ca.

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