Standing on Guard:Canadian Identity, Globalization, and Continental Integration
Bibliographic record
Abstract
‘Canada, quite simply, is not a country in search of an identity, contrary to the polemics of poets, pundits and professors,’ Erin Anderssen and Michael Valpy wrote in the Globe and Mail on Canada Day 2003. ‘It’s not a country continually on the verge of something but never quite there,’ they remarked, reporting on a major survey from the Centre for Research and Information (CRIC) on Canada and the Toronto Globe and Mail in what the newspaper called The New Canada Series. ‘Canadians are not a people who have nothing in common except their diversity. They have remarkably similar values.... [and] they have attitudes and an approach to life that markedly distinguish them from young Americans and young Europeans.’ There is considerable evidence to suggest that Canadians consider themselves more Canadian than ever, and Matthew Mendelsohn, one of Canada’s foremost scholars on public opinion surveys, has concluded from his review of dozens of surveys that ‘the Canadian is stronger than the provincial in all provinces except Quebec.’
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.012 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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 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".