Book Review of Jolly, Joanna. (2019). Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine. Toronto: Viking Press.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine," explores the 2014 Winnipeg murder that paved the way for significant policy changes in the Canadian government and criminal justice system.Throughout her analysis of police notes, transcripts, recordings, trial testimonies, and interviews, Jolly explains the police investigation process and the agency's pressures to find her killer.Jolly's book "Red River Girl" also brings light to the heavily unreported violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada that has persisted for several decades.The book also identifies how Canadians have failed to protect and support their Indigenous counterparts.She does so by examining the consequences of Residential Schools on Indigenous families and how Child and Family Services' ineffective practices contribute to these adverse effects, and how the criminal justice system further perpetuates discrimination and callous treatment of Indigenous people.These racist systems and ideologies that Jolly identifies contribute to the overarching theme of perseverance demonstrated by the police force and the Indigenous population in the face of adversity.As Jolly illustrates, the "policies aimed at assimilating the 'Indian' into a European and Christian way of life" that were the basis of Residential School teachings, which acted as a "cultural genocide that shattered communities, tore families apart, and frustrated the ability of generations of parents to raise their own children" (pp.32-33).In these schools, "students were
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.060 | 0.040 |
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".