(An)Other Canada is Possible: Rethinking Canada's Colonial Legacy
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Abstract
The authors interrogate the geo-political power negotiations that contributed to the ideological construction of Canada as a nation. This article focuses especially on the connection with the Western European colonial projects in the Americas initiated over 500 years ago, along the lines of Latin American decolonial thinkers. The myth of Canada as a benign, welcoming, generous, peace-keeping, multicultural nation and society is unsanitized and dismantled. Canada's history is resituated in relation to the ideological organization of the world according to racialized, classist, and cultural Eurocentric colonial indicators, which have contributed to the historical realities of impoverishment, violent exploitation, racialized discrimination, and cultural genocide throughout the Americas. Key words: Decolonizing, Canada, Multiculturalism, Decolonial Thinking, Racism, Colonial Desire Los autores interrogan las negociaciones del poder geopolítico que contribuyeron a la construcción ideológica de Canadá como nación. Este artículo enfoca particularmente en la conexión con los proyectos coloniales de Europa Occidental en las Américas iniciados hace más de 500 años, en la línea de los pensadores decoloniales latinoamericanos. Se interroga y desconstruye el mito de Canadá como nación benigna, acogedora, generosa, pacificadora y multicultural. La historia de Canadá está resituada en relación con la organización ideológica del mundo según los indicadores coloniales de racialización, clase, y eurocentrismo epistemológico que han contribuido a las realidades históricas del empobrecimiento, la explotación violenta, la discriminación racial y el genocidio cultural en todas las Américas Key words: Decolonizacion, Canadá, Multiculturalismo, Pensamiento Decolonial, Racism, Deseo Colonial. Os autores questionam as negociações do poder geopolítico que contribuíram para a construção ideológica do Canadá como nação. Este artigo enfoca especialmente a conexão com os projetos coloniais da Europa Ocidental nas Américas, iniciados há mais de 500 anos, na linha de pensadores decoloniais latino-americanos. Questiona e desconstrói o mito do Canadá como nação benéfica, acolhedora, generosa, pacificadora e multicultural. A história do Canadá é ressituada em relação à organização ideológica do mundo de acordo com os indicadores coloniais de racialização, classe e eurocentrismo epistemológico que contribuíram para as realidades históricas do empobrecimento, da exploração violenta, da discriminação racial e do genocídio cultural em todas as Américas. Palavras-chave: descolonização, Canadá, multiculturalismo, pensamento decolonial, racismo, desejo colonial
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.033 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".