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Record W4323670450 · doi:10.33137/ic.v15i.40368

Italians and the Law in Alberta

2023· article· en· W4323670450 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueItalian Canadiana · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicItalian Fascism and Post-war Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLawPolitical scienceGeography

Abstract

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The province of Alberta continues to lack a comprehensive history of the courts and the various judicial districts to which judges were assigned.The first judges of the newly created North-West Territories were appointed in 1876 and the judicial system went through several different stages, following and supporting, | believe, the opening and the settling of the new Territories.The legislation creating the court system went into force in Alberta in 1907, two years after the founding of the province.It will suffice to mention that in 1935 two District Courts were created: that of Northern Alberta and that of Southern Alberta which incorporated all previously existing District Courts.Between 1975 and 1979 the District Court of Alberta replaced the Northern and Southern Alberta District Courts; in turn this court disappeared when in June 1979 the entire federal court system was restructured and judges were assigned to the Court of Queen's Bench.In spite of the fact that sources of information are not by any means scarce, the complex task of providing an exhaustive account of the Alberta judicial system has not been attempted so far.To find Italian names in The Canadian Law List we have to wait for the post-Second World War years, but in 1922-23, in a west that was still very, very wild, two Italians faced British law because of events which were to result in one of the most sensational trials in western Canada; one that has become part of local folklore.I am referring to the trial of Emilio Picariello and Florence Lassandro who both went to the gallows on 2 May 1923 in Fort Saskatchewan.Until some twenty years ago, in the literature related to the Crow's Nest Pass, the Picariello case was presented in a page at

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.859
Threshold uncertainty score0.453

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.013
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.242 · 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