Canadian court hears arguments on physician assisted suicide for severely ill patients
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canada’s Supreme Court this week heard arguments in a case that will decide the legality of physician assisted suicide for severely ill people, amid signs that government lawyers face an uphill fight in persuading justices of the benefits of the current law, under which doctors’ assistance in dying is a crime equivalent to manslaughter. The constitutional challenge was brought by the children of Kathleen Carter, who had to travel to Switzerland at age 89 to end her life, and resembles a landmark 1993 case in which the court ruled 5-4 against legalising the practice. But the current hearing takes place in a much transformed political landscape. A week before the case opened, an Ipsos …
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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 | 0.024 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.062 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.039 | 0.035 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
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".