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Record W4410743480 · doi:10.1177/00084298251330636

Appels alternés entre la liberté d’expression et la liberté de la religion : mise en relation de moments politiques au Canada contemporain

2025· article· en· W4410743480 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligion and Society Interactions
Canadian institutionsYork UniversityMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesPolitical scienceFreedom of expressionPhilosophyHuman rightsLaw

Abstract

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This article analyses how arguments in Canadian newspaper op eds that promote the freedom of expression can serve as conduits for Islamophobia. To reflect on this slippage, we compare opinion pieces in five English-language daily newspapers on 2019’s Law 21 in Québec, and discussions surrounding Motion 103 in 2017, and the appointment of Amira Elghawaby as Canada’s Special Representative on Islamophobia in 2023. We show how ‘freedom of religion’ and ‘freedom of expression’ frameworks both construct a tolerant and modern Canadian nation in contrast to Québec. English-language media tend to promote Law 21 as discriminatory towards religious minorities, particularly Muslims, while their discussions of Motion 103 and the appointment of Amira Elghawaby nevertheless contain arguments with an Islamophobic slant. We conclude that anti-Islamophobia discourse in the Canadian English-language media thus remains fragile.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.106
Threshold uncertainty score0.771

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0240.020
Scholarly communication0.0100.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.000

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.411
Teacher spread0.387 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2025
Admission routes3
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