Conflicting visions: Don Messer, Liberal nationalism and the Canadian unity debate
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper, the popularity of commercial old-time fiddler Don Messer isexplored within the context of the emerging liberal nationalism of the 1960sand the Canadian broadcasting system’s ‘nationalist project’ or mandate ofrepresenting, promoting and even performing Canadian identity on theairwaves. The author maintains that in the rush to establish new Canadiansymbols as a response to political concerns at home and the threat ofAmericanization, the abrupt disposal of British symbols and the removal ofestablished media icons from the airwaves, as in the sudden cancellation in1969 of Don Messer’s popular television programme, left a legacy of conflictwhich has ultimately resulted in the suppression of traditional Canadianculture in favour of elite culture. The apparent elitism of the CBC has likelydriven segments of the Canadian public to seek their viewing options andcultural icons elsewhere, most likely on the American television networks.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.064 | 0.064 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".