Calgary’s Resistance to Changing from “Alderman” to “Councillor”
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Although most major Canadian cities have changed the names of their elected municipal representatives from "Alderman" to "Councillor," Can a Just City be defined in terms of the rights of citizens to be treated with respect and dignity? All major Canadian municipalities with the exception of Calgary, Alberta call their elected municipal representatives "Councillors." This article presents an overview of struggle since the mid 1980s by feminists to change "Alderman" to an inclusive term that does not incorrectly identify the gender of women on City Council. In 2003 nine citizens, after engaging in numerous forms of social action, filed a complaint to the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission. This complaint was dismissed in 2007 as well as the subsequent appeal. Understanding the resistance of the City Council and its power base may reveal fundamental differences in viewpoints among various parties about the nature of a Just City and equitable treatment of women. While the pursuit of justice through the Human Rights route may have been an inappropriate, but understandable action, the question remains: what mechanisms or avenues are available for those who believe that Calgary is wedded to
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it