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Chris Selley: There are easy solutions to the ‘longest ballot’ problem, so let’s end it now

There are many irritating things about the Longest Ballot Committee, the group of self-styled democratic reformers that stacks high-profile ridings with scores of candidates who aren’t really running for office, with the aim of creating ludicrously enormous paper ballots. It’s completely incoherent, first and foremost. Read More
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Scientists are studying ways to make your blood deadly to mosquitos

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug used to treat tropical diseases such as river blindness, can also fight the spread of malaria. It does so in a way that seems oddly (and satisfyingly) like revenge against the mosquitos that carry the disease. It makes the user's blood a deadly poison to the insects that want to consume it. Read More
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Derek Finkle: Consumption sites ruining neighbourhoods by increasing public drug use, overdoses

At this time last summer, Montreal’s Victor-Rousselot Park found itself at the centre of the national debate over supervised injection sites. In April 2024, three months earlier, Maison Benoît Labre, a facility that includes both drug consumption services and a drop-in centre for the homeless, had opened just metres away from the park, which doubles as a playground for the nearby elementary school, whose students use it for recess and lunch breaks. Read More
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