On Monday, October 19, Albertans will get ten numbered, colour-coded ballots. Under Elections Alberta’s rules, Question 10 gets counted first, by hand, at every polling station. It is the only one most people outside the province will hear about. In full, it reads:
Should Alberta remain a province …
In a valley near Penticton, British Columbia, there is a telescope with no moving parts. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, is four half-pipes of steel mesh, each 100 metres long and 20 metres wide. A line of 1,024 dual-polarization receivers hangs above them. CHIME …