Max Hartshorn

Web Developer, News and Interactive

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• Quebec election 2022: Find your riding, local candidates

  Global News has profiled all 125 ridings in Quebec so you can find your riding, learn more about the local candidates and see how your riding has voted in past elections.

  Politics

  Sep 24, 2022
• The economic nightmare that wasn’t? Border blockades had little effect on trade, data reveals

  Blockades at Canada-U.S. borders created chaos and controversy in February, but they may not have had the financial hit the government cited in justifying the Emergencies Act.

  Canada

  Apr 26, 2022
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• ‘Strange things out there’: Inside Lake Ontario’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’

  The tranquil waters of eastern Lake Ontario conceal a dark past full of shipwrecks, disappearances and strange objects in the sky.

  Canada

  Aug 28, 2021
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• Movies are scoring higher and higher on Rotten Tomatoes — but why?

  Critic scores on Rotten Tomatoes have been trending upward over the past decade. Commentators see shifts in the media industry and changes to the site's critic pool as the cause.

  Entertainment

  Jun 16, 2021
• Canada paid nearly $200M to visa company previously based in a tax haven and linked to China

  Canada has awarded at least $183 million to VFS Global, a company previously based in Mauritius and backed by a large Chinese state-owned investment fund.

  Canada

  Jan 12, 2021
• Ford government to strip some powers of conservation authorities 

  The Ontario legislature is moving ahead with a Ford government bill to remove powers that allow conservation authorities to protect communities against flooding and erosion.

  Environment

  Dec 7, 2020
• They were ready to start a new life in Canada, then the coronavirus struck

  Would-be immigrants, exempt from COVID-19 restrictions, say they've faced months of delays because the government hasn't approved their travel documents.

  Canada

  Oct 8, 2020
• Despite coronavirus, GTA real estate prices are rising slightly

  Despite the economic chaos caused by the novel coronavirus, home prices in the Greater Toronto Area are up slightly from this time last year.

  Economy

  May 26, 2020
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• Flattening the coronavirus curve: How Canada compares with other countries

  How does Canada's coronavirus curve compare to other countries? We're doing better than some, but not as well as others.

  Canada

  May 5, 2020
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• Canada is flattening the coronavirus curve. That’s ‘good news,’ expert explains

  Public health experts say that a graph of positive tests shows that sacrifices to flatten the coronavirus curve are working in Canada.

  Health

  Apr 17, 2020
• Tim Hortons tops list as MPs’ favourite restaurant. They expensed $116K over 4 years

  Tim Hortons was one of the most popular restaurant choices for Canadian politicians, according to expense reports.

  Politics

  Feb 7, 2020
• These animated maps show Canada has so much more to lose in a trade war than the U.S.

  The Canada - U.S. trade relationship is far from equal. These five simple animated maps tell you why Canada has so much to lose in a U.S. trade war.

  Canada

  Jul 4, 2018
• Winter Olympics 2018: medal count results

  Check this page throughout the Olympics for the latest medal counts and a rundown of all of Canada's medals.

  Canada

  Feb 9, 2018
• Build your own Canadian coat of arms

  For Canada Day, we wanted to help Canadians create a modern-day coat of arms that would celebrate the Canadian spirit.

  Canada

  Jun 16, 2017
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• Interactive lookup tool: Find out if listeria-recalled food may be in your freezer

  Want to know if an item has been recalled? Use the Global News lookup tool below

  Canada

  May 20, 2016
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• Should you rent or buy? This real estate calculator will help you decide

  To rent or buy? That is a question Canadians across the country face as they weigh the pros and cons of making the leap into home ownership.

  Canada

  Mar 8, 2016
• INTERACTIVE: The hidden cost of abandoned oil and gas wells in Alberta

  There are over 50,000 abandoned well sites in Alberta, no longer in production, that need to be restored and cleaned up according to 2014 numbers provided by Alberta Environment and Parks.

  Canada

  Oct 30, 2015
• INFOGRAPHIC: Alberta’s inactive, abandoned oil and gas well problem

  16x9 calculated there are approximately 22 million metres of inactive well infrastructure buried in Alberta. That’s nearly enough to stretch all the way to the other side of the Earth and back.

  Oct 29, 2015
• Map: Alberta littered with inactive oil and gas wells

  Over 400,000 oil and gas wells have been drilled across Alberta. 16x9 mapped out all the wells using data from the Alberta Energy Regulator.

  Canada

  Oct 28, 2015
• 4,488 had active Ashley Madison accounts despite saying they were under 18

  Why did a 15-year-old Saskatchewan girl, and nearly 5,000 other people who said they were under 18, have accounts on Ashley Madison?

  Canada

  Sep 3, 2015
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• In Canada, U.K. and U.S., Ashley Madison users were over 80% male

  Millions of men making arrangements to cheat on their wives through ashleymadison.com were looking for love in all the wrong places in more ways than one.

  Canada

  Aug 20, 2015
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• RCMP, military email addresses in Canadian Ashley Madison data

  Over 600 federal government email addresses appear on a list of people who subscribed to the Canadian-owned Web site Ashley Madison.

  Canada

  Aug 19, 2015
• When you’re income-rich, but asset-poor

  Some argue we should measure poverty not by income but by assets – the worth of the stuff you have and the cash you've saved. But by that metric, many more Canadians are poor.

  Canada

  Feb 9, 2015