Canadian Politics Unplugged/Liberals at the Border: We Stand on Guard for Whom?/Canada's Military Posture: An Analysis of Recent Civilian Reports
Notice bibliographique
Résumé
E. Nicol and P. Whalley, Canadian Politics Unplugged (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2004), 150pp. $19.95. ISBN 1-55002-466-3. L. Axworthy, Liberals at the Border: We Stand on Guard for Whom? (Victoria University with University of Toronto Press, 2004), viii + 52 pp. Paper. $11.95 ISBN 0- 802085938. B. Cooper, M. Stephenson and R. Szeto, Canada's Military Posture: An analysis of recent civilian reports, Critical Issues Bulletin (Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 2004). Paper. $25 per year membership. ISSN 1480-3666. 'O goody', I thought, opening the Review Editor's parcel, 'a humorous book on Canadian politics: what a good idea. A change from jokes about snow, beer, hockey and eh?' Sadly this little book is just not very funny, despite being written by the doyen of Canadian humorous writers. Nicol has won the Stephen Leacock award three times which makes me wonder whether in fact Canada can sustain only one world-famous person in each cultural category: Cardinal, Gould, Frye, Leacock, McLuhan. The targets in this resume of politics north of the 49th parallel are all easy: Preston Manning, the Federal Government, the Senate, the Lieutenant Governors, Trudeau, the hostility between eastern and western provinces and so on, but the jokes are all rather tired, delivered in folksy throwaway style which enables the reader to see the punch line well before reading it. In case we don't see it coming there is generally that thoughtful piece of Canadian punctuation: the colon: to help us. The illustrations are equally nondescript with none of the bite we associate with Canadian newspaper cartoons. I can think of only one exception: a startled figure in Victorian garb confronts graffiti proclaiming 'Vive Le River Rouge Libre' over the title 'Western Rielism', which made me smile anyway. Oh, and a rather nice slant on bilingualism and the requirement that in Quebec French signs should precede English, and predominate as in 'MC DONALD'S/McDonald's' (p. 120). But throughout the whole book a dependence on feeble puns and over laboured asides gives it the feel of a collection of after dinner anecdotes rather than the satire which the publishers praise: for $20 I would want the dinner thrown in too. And I did try: I read it four times to see if I'd missed the joke: perhaps you have to be really cold to enjoy it. Or Canadian eh? The end of Nicol's book casts a sardonic glance at 'Americanada' and the increasingly ambivalent nature of the integration of Canada within American culture, which was the theme taken up in the next book I opened: L. Axworthy, Liberals at the Border: We Stand on Guard for Whom? Just about the only thing this transcript of the Honourable Lloyd Axworthy's lecture (the sixth in the Senator Keith Dudley memorial series) has in common with the previously reviewed volume is the size and format, but they arrived together and in a way are both 'niche publications'. Axworthy has been a passionate advocate of anti-landmine legislation for many years and in this short text he addresses this issue as well as having pertinent things to say about the inadvisability of Canadian foreign policy simply following on the coat tails of America (as it formerly hung on those of Britain). …
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Prédiction machine sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Le volet Gemma est une étiquette directe du modèle pour chaque travail de la base, lue sur la notice réduite au titre. Le volet Codex est un classifieur appris des 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et calibré sur les taux pondérés de l'échantillon; les champs sans appui suffisant ne portent aucun appel Codex. Le mode candidate est l'union des deux volets; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont pas des étiquettes humaines.
Scores du classifieur distillé par catégorie (deux têtes)
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,002 | 0,005 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,001 | 0,001 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,001 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,011 | 0,044 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,008 | 0,004 |
| Communication savante | 0,013 | 0,003 |
| Science ouverte | 0,001 | 0,001 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,002 | 0,002 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,013 | 0,003 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule source (Gemma direct ou Codex distillé), pas un consensus.
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