Bibliographic record
Abstract
REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930-1960 Ross Lambertson Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xiv, 370pp, $47.25 cloth (ISBN 0802089216)Ross Lambertson has written an impressive and comprehensive study of the history of human rights and human rights activists in 20th century Canada. His study-organized both chronologically and topically-covers an impressive amount of ground. It begins with the of the of Quebec's padlock law in the 19303 and moves through the decades, examining the crisis of civil liberties during WWII, the fight against Japanese deportation, the Gouzenko affair, the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) and its place at the vanguard of an emerging civil rights coalition, the CJC and the Dresden story of the fight against Jim Crow in southwestern Ontario, and lastly the creation of Diefenbaker's bill of rights.Lambertson demonstrates that there was an emergent emphasis on rights and redress in Canada between the years of 1930 and 1960, the genesis of which he locates in the turmoil of the Great Depression, ending with Diefenbaker's bill of rights (5). During this period, Canada progressed from being a country wherein human rights violations were widely accepted-and even encouraged-to one characterized by official forms of racial and religious discrimination, a wide range of laws against private discrimination, and a far better track record of respect for libertarian rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of association. Lambertsoris central thesis is built upon three causal claims. First, at the international level in the aftermath of WWII, there was an emergent concern with human rights. secondly, Canada was more amenable to respecting such rights as a result of a greater tolerance borne of a climate of economic prosperity and political stability. Lastly, significant individuals and, more commonly, human rights organization legally codified these attitudinal and cultural changes (6).Lambertson identifies libertarian and egalitarian rights as the two kinds of individual rights that form the scaffolding for his argument. The former demands the individuals' protection from governmental restrictions on his or her liberty, whereas the latter was staked out by various group demanding equal treatment, and who vigorously fought their second-class citizenship. Looking at human rights as the confluence of egalitarian and libertarian sentiments allows the author to flesh out a that has been unmatched in terms of its breadth and comprehensiveness. All of the stories recounted in this book have been studied elsewhere, though perhaps a few have not received the kind of detailed analysis this author presents. …
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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 | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.072 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.003 |
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".