Reprinted with permission from Be Giant, a non-profit, non-partisan media outlet reporting on the people, places, ideas and breakthroughs shaping Canada's future. Sign up for their weekly newsletter. The decades-long journey to discovering the weight-loss drug that changed the world ??took an unlikely turn in an Air Canada cargo hold, where a venomous, black-and-orange Gila monster was travelling from Utah to Toronto in a metal cage. ???It was 1995 and, after landing at Pearson, the lizard was transported to the laboratory of Daniel Drucker, ??an endocrinologist determined to solve a medical mystery. ???Before the lizard arrived, ??Drucker, a compact and...