Bibliographic record
Abstract
Per person, Canada uses more energy and generates more waste than any other country. Canada’s resource intensity is driven by two aspects. From the days of the first settlers, Canada was and is still seen as a land of resources to be mined, cut, channeled, harnessed, and shipped. And, Canada’s cities, benefiting from relatively cheap energy and lots of land, were developed with large homes on expansive lots in car-dependent neighborhoods. The urban metabolism of a Canadian city is among the world’s most voracious. Canada is doubly blessed by geography. The country is replete with minerals, freshwater, and petroleum resources. Almost half the world’s mining companies are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and Canada’s oil and gas reserves are the world’s third highest. Canada’s second geographic blessing is the temperate climate (with plentiful freshwater), which will be especially important for the remainder of this century as climate migrants move away from the equator. Canada’s blessings now need to be protected and shared. Canada’s cities will need to lead the global shift to a sustainability mindset where wealth can be increased while planetary impacts are decreased.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 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".