Undermining the Edge: Reflecting on the Policy and Possibility of the Canada-US Border
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Canadian border is understood as an invisible line imposed into the landscape but this assertion, although accepted as true, is flawed. This thesis is an examination of the disconnect between intent and reality of the spatial conditions of the border. It reflects on the power structures of the border and considers what it means to abolish the border. These spatial conditions of the Canada-US border are investigated through policies, jurisdiction, and historical events, exploiting their capacities to undermine the political constructs of this invisible line. This thesis was intended as a response to the Safe Third Country Agreement but grew to become a critical reflection on what makes up the border, and th ecomplexity of its policies, its people and its infrastructure. The border, and the manipulation and control of land through its imposition is a colonial project that affects many people and many generations through time. My hope is that through this thesis the discussion of architecture having a greater role in upholding freedom continues.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.040 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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.
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".