Consecrating Canada’s Icon: The Riel Project, Usable Heroes, and Competing Nationalisms
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The publication of The Collected Writings of Louis Riel / Les écrits complets de Louis Riel in 1985 was a remarkable event for several reasons. To begin with, it is the first collected works devoted not only to any figure in Canadian history but to someone who had been hanged for treason. In addition, Riel is not generally considered a major writer. So given the controversy still associated with the nineteenth-century Métis politician, poet, and mystic, the editors decided to eschew contextual analysis and limit their commentary to bibliographical matters. This is a strategy they justified by arguing that it would enable the collection to incorporate only the views of Riel as he articulated them in his considerable body of poetry and prose. Paradoxically, though, most contemporary reclamations of Riel rely little on his words as gathered in The Collected Writings. Perhaps because his texts often conflict with the dominant images of him in popular discourse, the collection appears to have become canonized. Like the monument that it is, it is largely unread—or, at the least, unacknowledged.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".