Bibliographic record
Abstract
Howard Pawley presided over Manitoba politics during a significant period of Canada's history.His insider view is both fascinating and instructive in terms of explaining the contemporary national political scene.First elected in the historic 1969 election, the NDP's first victory in Manitoba, Pawley played a key role in altering the province's political landscape.His political memoirs offer insight into the success of his party in winning seven of the past eleven elections held in Manitoba.Of equal importance, we gain a glimpse of Howard Pawley himself as a dedicated social democrat, MLA, cabinet minister, party leader, and premier.As a front-bench minister during the Schreyer years, Pawley had a hand in critical legislation that introduced public auto insurance, the province's first human rights code, and the Marital Property Act, a landmark achievement for women's equality.These and other key issues demonstrate the passion and diligent attention to duty that Pawley brought to each file that hit his desk.From the vantage point of his long political career, Pawley gives us unique insights into the key economic and political issues on both the provincial and national scenes during this tumultuous period in Canadian politics.His perspective on the French Language Services debate, the CF-18 fiasco, and the Meech Lake Accord expose fault lines in federal-provincial relations and the seeds of the rise in western discontent, birth of the Reform Party, and the rejection of the Liberal Party of Canada by the west.The success of Howard Pawley's economic policies is his greatest legacy.Assuming power in the midst of a recession with both high unemployment and interest rates, the Pawley administration was an activist one.Pawley questions today's fixation on tax-cutting when unemployment is high and communities are suffering.The Manitoba Jobs Fund was a success as Manitoba weathered the recession better than most.The agreements Pawley's administration struck
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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 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.746 | 0.695 |
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".