Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction In May 1951 Robert Weaver, the person in charge of literary programming for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's national radio network, bought broadcast rights for a short story called “The Strangers.” It had been written by a nineteen-year-old university student named Alice Laidlaw. After Laidlaw made some revisions, Weaver planned to broadcast it on 1 June on Canadian Short Stories , a fifteen-minute national program. But on 30 May he wired Laidlaw that “The Strangers” would not be broadcast as planned because the Massey Commission Report was to be released on the afternoon of 1 June; the story was broadcast later that year. Though anecdotal, this coincidental moment is an apt point of departure for a discussion of the Canadian short story in English. Throughout his long career at the CBC from 1948 through 1985, through a succession of programs the most prominent of which was Anthology (1953–85), Robert Weaver encouraged scores of writers to develop the form in Canada. More than this, with William Toye and others, he produced the Tamarack Review (1956–82), the leading Canadian literary magazine of its tumultuous times, and also edited a succession of influential short-story anthologies beginning with Canadian Short Stories (1960) through a Fifth Series volume in 1991. Alice Laidlaw, the young writer from whom Weaver bought “The Strangers” – the first story she had ever sold – went on to marry in 1951 and become Alice Munro; throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, times of struggle and frustration for Munro as a writer, Weaver would remain her primary connection to a literary world.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.111 | 0.036 |
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".