Researchers have big hopes for Kirsty Duncan, the country’s newly appointed scientist-turned-science minister. Nicola Jones 22 December 2015 Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press/PA. Kirsty Duncan was first elected to Canada’s Parliament in 2008. Kirsty Duncan, the medical geographer who last month became Canada’s first Minister of Science, has a big mandate: to ensure that scientific considerations again figure into…