Society
Cherry Picker: Choose your ideal NHL team by its Canadian-ness
Are you a Canadian hockey fan desperate for a reason to cheer? Use our tool to find the right Canadian-ish bandwagon for you
Amanda Shendruk
Amanda Shendruk is a data visualization expert who turns numbers and spreadsheets into compelling and enlightening information graphics.
Ottawa
Twenty words that appear in the budget more often than ’deficit’
Even the phrase ’balanced budget’ appears more in the budget than ’deficit’—the document’s reality. Charting out the words the Liberals thought mattered more
Economic analysis
Canada’s fiscal outlook just keeps getting worse
Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s most recent fiscal update painted an ever-gloomier picture—one of slowing growth, and bigger deficits
Technology
Why can’t the FBI hack an iPhone?
An explainer on Tim Cook’s stand against a court order demanding Apple to create a ’master key’ to unlock a terrorist gunman’s phone
Ottawa
Figures of Speech: A data dive into House of Commons debate
Maclean’s daily tracker of the words spoken in the House of Commons and who said them
Money
What would you buy with the biggest jackpot in U.S. lottery history?
This week’s Powerball winnings are estimated at $1.4 billion (USD). Here are some ideas if you wanted to go shopping with all that money
Health
Tracking New Year’s resolutions through Google
Graphs show the historic uptick in searches for ’broccoli’ and ’tofu’ on Jan. 1
Ottawa
Maclean’s annotates the 2015 Throne Speech
Read Justin Trudeau’s first Throne Speech in full, and tap on highlighted passages for context and expert analysis on its biggest issues.
World
Who’s supporting whom? A map of Syria’s tangled coalitions
Turkey’s downing of a Russian bomber highlights the web of countries and armed groups allied together in various factions in Syria. We mapped it out.
Canada
Infographics: What Canada is doing in Iraq and Syria
A series of visualizations to better understand Canada’s impact in the war against Islamic State