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Record W4414088100 · doi:10.13169/islastudj.9.1.0003

Burner Charities and Big Gifters—Tracking Illicit Activity Within in the Canada to Israel Charity Pipeline

2025· article· en· W4414088100 on OpenAlexaffabout
Miles Howe, Paul Sylvestre

Bibliographic record

VenueIslamophobia Studies Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicJewish Identity and Society
Canadian institutionsUniversity of OttawaToronto Metropolitan University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnforcementComplicityRevenuePipeline (software)Private sectorLaw enforcement

Abstract

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This article expands upon research surrounding transgressional charities within the Canada to Israel charitable subsector. Juxtaposed against credible accusations of anti-Muslim bias within the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) charitable enforcement sector, this article suggests significant financial loss to the Canadian economy (potentially exceeding $1 billion CDN) as a result of transgressional, charitable, activity within the subsector. This paper further considers the leniency with which the CRA addresses instances of transgressional activity, both from a case-by-case and endemic standpoint. Aligning with the general critiques of philanthrocapitalism, regulatory enforcement within the Canadian charitable sector appears to target frontline operations, despite ample evidence of financial complicity with many of Canada’s most sizeable private foundations.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.034
Threshold uncertainty score0.244

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.004
Science and technology studies0.0070.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.001
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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 head0.048
GPT teacher head0.340
Teacher spread0.292 · 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 designObservational
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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