Does Section 2(b) Really Make a Difference?: Part 1: Freedom of Expression, Defamation Law and the Journalist-Source Privilege
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Twice in recent years the Supreme Court of Canada has stepped away from Church of Scientology; first, WIC Radio modified the fair comment doctrine, and the n Grant v. Torstar introduced a “public interest responsible communication” defence. Both times the Court considered Charter values but failed to incorporate constitutional standards into the common law of defamation. More recently, R. v. National Post, dealing with confidential journalist sources, followed the same pattern of engaging Charter values without altering the common law to comply with Charter standards. This article argues that it is not enough for the Charter to inform the common law: The Charter will not really make a difference until the common law incorporates Charter concepts and standards into the doctrines that place limits on expressive freedom.
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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 | 0.003 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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