Lost: Heritage Stock. The Heritage Property Act and Heritage Conservation in Downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Abstract
This article considers heritage conservation in Halifax, examining the Heritage Property Act and its implementation. As one of the oldest cities in Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia was graced with an abundance of built heritage. However, historic properties have been disappearing at an alarming rate, with 41 per cent of potential heritage buildings in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia having been demolished since 2009. This article argues that the current approach to heritage conservation in Halifax is nominally successful but consistently falls short of the spirit in which it was enacted. The Act performs well in specific situations, namely where the owners wish to receive heritage designation. Where owners refuse to register their properties, there is little the municipality can (or is willing) to do to protect heritage properties. The result is a death by attrition for much of the built heritage of the city.\nCet article traite de la conservation du patrimoine à Halifax, en examinant la Heritage Property Act et sa mise en œuvre. En tant que l’une des plus anciennes villes du Canada, Halifax (Nouvelle-Écosse) a été gratifiée d’un abondant patrimoine bâti. Cependant, les propriétés historiques disparaissent à un rythme alarmant, 41 % des bâtiments patrimoniaux potentiels du centre-ville d’Halifax ayant été démolis depuis 2009. Cet article soutient que l’approche actuelle de la conservation du patrimoine à Halifax est en principe efficace, mais qu’elle ne correspond pas toujours à l’esprit dans lequel elle a été adoptée. La Loi donne de bons résultats dans des situations spécifiques, à savoir lorsque les propriétaires souhaitent obtenir une désignation patrimoniale. Lorsque les propriétaires refusent d’enregistrer leurs biens, la municipalité ne peut (ou ne veut) pas faire grand-chose pour protéger les biens patrimoniaux. Le résultat est une mort par attrition pour une grande partie du patrimoine bâti de la ville
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 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 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".