Letters on the anomalous position of Manitoba as a province of the Dominion.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
1875-The Province be- ing charged with the ex- penses of the Gordon and Lepine trials and back in- terest 23,186.761880 100,000.00$258,386.11And a further sum of $50,000 having been authorized for 1881 will reduce the balance at our credit with the Dominion to $243,060.89,on which pittance we are entitled to interest annually at 5 per cent.This makes our present subsidy as follows : 5 per cent on $243,060.89...$ 12,153.04Specific Grant 30,000,00 80 cents on 70,000.the ratio of population having been increased from 17,000 to Yet the assurance was given by Sir Geo.E. Cartier before Manitoba was taken into the Confederation : " That 'this province should hold the same U STATUS as the four provinces now com- u prising the Dominion."If this assurance meant anything it was a guarantee that in all respects the Province of Manitoba would be treated in like manner as other provinces of the Dominion.Are we thus treated ?Do we enjoy the same privileges as the other parts of the Confederation ?The simple answer to this is that each of the provinces except Manitoba, enjoys the control of the re-sources within its limits for its own par- ticular benefit ; each province except Manitoba owns and administers its own Crown lands, its timber, its minerals,
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.004 |
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".