Preface to the Fourth Edition
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Abstract
There was an air of optimism in Aboriginal communities across the country when I began preparing this preface for the fourth edition of An Illustrated History of Canada' s Native People.The federal Liberal government led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had just been elected and sworn in and a centrepiece of his campaign was the promise to fundamentally change the relationship between Canada' s federal government and Aboriginal peoples.Symbolic of the future and the potential for change, Aboriginal children were invited to perform at his swearing-in ceremony.Theland Kicknosway, a twelve-year-old Cree hand drummer, led the procession of government officials and dignitaries into Rideau Hall in Ottawa, the official home of the governor general of Canada, where the ceremonies took place.Following Kicknosway' s performance, Governor General David Johnston acknowledgedfor the first time at a swearing-in ceremony, it is believed-that the event was taking place on traditional Algonquin territory.As the event unfolded, two young girls of Inuit descent, Samantha Metcalfe and Cailyn Degrandpre, performed Inuit throat songs.To conclude the event, the young Métis dance troupe Prairie Fire Jiggers-Hunter, Riley, and Jacob McKenzie-led the exiting procession from Rideau Hall.In these and other ways, the art, heritage, and futures of the three Aboriginal groups recognized in Canada' s constitution received acknowledgment-the First Nations, the Inuit, and the Métis.The new government included eight Aboriginal MPs, the highest number in Canada' s history.Prime Minister Trudeau appointed two of these MPs to key cabinet positions.One was the Honourable Hunter Tootoo, an Inuk businessman and former elected member of the Nunavut legislature.He was appointed minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard.The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould was the other cabinet appointee-she became the chief law officer of the Crown as minister of Justice and attorney general of Canada.Minister Wilson-Raybould is a member of the We Wai Kai Nation/Cape Mudge Band of British
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.263 | 0.095 |
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".