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Record W339935060 · doi:10.15173/mjc.v5i0.239

Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development in Ontario: A look at the Current Policy Frameworks and Discourses Surrounding Sustainable Energy and Wind and Solar Power in Major Ontario Newspapers

2010· article· en· W339935060 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Morgan Harper

Bibliographic record

VenueThe McMaster Journal of Communication · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEnvironmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRenewable energyNewspaperSustainable developmentSustainable energyWind powerSolar powerPower (physics)Energy policySolar energyPolitical scienceEnergy (signal processing)Current (fluid)Environmental economicsBusinessEngineeringAdvertisingEconomicsElectrical engineeringPhysics

Abstract

Over thirty years ago we celebrated the first Earth Day, which has since marked the preservation and restoration of the environment. Ironi-cally, since this re-dedication to environmentalism and renewed spirit in learning from the past we have worked to increase carbon emissions, oil consumption, natural gas, and coal extraction. Our “ecological footprint” has nearly tripled as a result of the growth of the global motor vehicle population, human carbon emissions and, of course, greenhouse gases and their partner global warming. The problem is not going to go away, and finding Canada’s place within the policy paradigm of sustainable development and environmental awareness will not be easy. Juxtaposed against a divided federalist state, environmental policy falls under the jurisdiction of the provincial government in this country, making it in-creasingly hard to adopt a policy framework that not only works, but works consistently across this country’s political, social and economic landscapes.

Stored with the screening record, where it is evidence for the labels above.

How this classification was reachedexpand

The three-model screen

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All three models called this out of scope.

stratum: venue_new · design weight: 2684.25 (the sample is stratified; any rate computed without the weight is wrong)
Claude Opus 4.8OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: high

Analysis of Ontario renewable energy policy frameworks and their treatment in major newspapers; the object is energy policy and media discourse.

GPT-5.6 (high)OUT
genre: conceptual
about Canada: no
confidence: high

The article analyzes Ontario energy policy and newspaper discourse, not research practice.

Grok 4.5OUT
genre: policy
about Canada: no
confidence: high

Ontario sustainable energy policy analysis; energy policy, not research policy or systems.

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.131
Threshold uncertainty score0.000

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.005
Science and technology studies0.0230.005
Scholarly communication0.0060.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.245 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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