New Twiddle

controllers.application.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Controller.extend({
  queryParams: ['activeSorting'],

  activeSorting: null,

  actions: {
    clickHandler() {
      let result =
        [
          {name: 'q'},
          {value: 'a'}
        ]
      this.set('activeSorting', result)
    }
  }
});

routes.application.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Route.extend({
    model: function (params) {
      console.log(params)
    },
});

templates.application.hbs

<button {{action (action 'clickHandler')}}>set qp</button>

twiddle.json

{
  "version": "0.10.5",
  "EmberENV": {
    "FEATURES": {}
  },
  "options": {
    "use_pods": false,
    "enable-testing": false
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.js",
    "ember": "2.8.0",
    "ember-data": "2.8.0",
    "ember-template-compiler": "2.8.0",
    "ember-testing": "2.8.0"
  },
  "addons": {}
}