Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the high point of the Yellow Vests Canada (YVC) movement, the United We Roll convoy, which drew national media attention when YVC activists drove transport trucks from Red Deer, Alberta to protest outside the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario on 19 February 2019. The chapter is divided into four main sections. In the first section, Canada, and the province of Alberta in particular, are contextualized as a place where fossil capital plays a hegemonic role in the political economy. In the second section, it is argued that United We Roll was a ‘subsidized public’ with two main tributaries: ‘extractive populist’ groups funded by fossil capital, and far-right anti-immigrant groups emboldened by the ‘Trump effect’. The third section shows how extractive populist groups struggled for, and ultimately lost control of, the direction of the movement they subsidized. The fourth section, proposes a demarcation between big and small fossil capital and reflects on why the former eventually distanced itself from the convoy, while the latter did not. The chapter concludes with brief notes on how the relationship between Canadian fossil capital and the far right has developed in the years since United We Roll.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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 teacher head, 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".