Bibliographic record
Abstract
The first two lines of the Preface to the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Final Report read: "Canada's residential school system for Aboriginal children was an education system in name only for much of its existence.These residential schools were created for the purpose of separating Aboriginal children from their families, in order to minimize and weaken family ties and cultural linkages and to indoctrinate children into a new culture -the culture of the legally dominant Euro-Christian Canadian society, led by Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald."i The Truth and Reconciliation Commission revealed to Canadians and the world, the intimate details of what happened in the residential school system to Indigenous children and the negative consequences these experiences had for children and their families.The Commission released 94 recommendations to improve outcomes for Indigenous peoples.Early in 2016, we learned from a decision by the Canadian Human Rights Commission that the government of Canada does indeed discriminate against children living on reserves.Thanks to the diligent advocacy work by Cindy Blackstock and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society who filed a complaint against the government of Canada in February 2007, they demonstrated that the federal funding model and management of First Nations' child and family services is discriminatory and denies children and their families the ability to lives their lives fully.Significantly, their work demonstrated that the on-reserve child welfare system receives substantially less funding than elsewhere in Canada.ii When the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal agreed in 2016 that the government had acted in discriminatory ways, they called for changes in the system and for government to "cease the discriminatory practice and take measures to redress and prevent it."Indigenous children in Canada are still waiting for these changes; yet this situation, incredibly, is not news.Consider that in 2002, the UN General Assembly Special Session for Children highlighted the plight of Indigenous children, the denial of access to services, and a system of child protection and wellbeing that treats them unfairly and in a discriminatory way.Delegates to the Special Session, including the Honourable Landon Pearson, urged governments to treat Indigenous children with dignity and respect by ensuring access to quality education, health care, respect for their heritage and cultural identity, and to value their participation in matters that affect their lives, among others.Despite these efforts predicated on respect and implementation of rights, Indigenous children in Canada continue to live in poverty and at a higher rate than
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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 | 0.003 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.401 | 0.335 |
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".