The threat of the “big one” hitting Western Canada has been looming for years. Experts say a powerful magnitude 9.0 earthquake could rip through the Pacific Coast, killings thousands and causing tsunami waves up to 20 metres high.

Hydro prices have been on the rise over the past few years.

Last year, the Liberal government said its inaugural budget would help spur the creation of 100,000 jobs in Canada.

Yesterday, there were three separate collisions on Highway 401 that involved multiple vehicles.

A new coat of paint for the Morning Show with a mixture of 3D, 2D and a whole lotta luv’n.

On Thursday, the United Kingdom is holding a referendum to decide whether “Brexit” will happen — that is, Britain leaving the European Union.

This animation, created by Babak Najafi and Ben Simpson, for the West Block takes a look at future possibilities for clean and renewable energy production in Canada.

Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a good thing for Canada, or an economic disaster waiting to happen? While it may be the largest trade deal in the world, there are several implications, both potentially good and bad. Chris Jeri and Ben Simpson‘s animation takes a closer look at it.

In 2010, a U.S. mining disaster killed 29 miners. A top official, helping to open the new Donkin coal mine in Cape Breton, has resigned from the project after questions were raised by media regarding his involvement in the 2010 disaster. After months of investigating management behind the Donkin Project, 16×9 learned that former Performance Coal Company President Chris Blanchard was part of a team working to help set up the Donkin project. The infographic and animation below, by Babak Najafi and Ben Simpson explores why mines explode.

A 16×9 investigation has discovered there are hundreds of sunken ships in Canadian waters, some of which have leaked oil in the past and are at risk of doing so again. Besides the environmental concerns, there are also financial hazards dealing with these shipwrecks. The federal government has spent close to $30 million over the past few years cleaning up spills from multiple ships that have corroded under Canadian waters. Ben Simpson‘s infographic explores who bears the financial burden of cleaning them up.

Using a couple named Fred and Ethel, this animation by Chris Jeri and Ben Simpson explains how Canada could take on more debt if it brings in more revenue.

How does this animation come to life? GlobalGFX worked collaboratively to piece together this intricate animation – modeling the Parliament building, storyboarding and camera tracking.

You see it every time there’s a heavy rainfall: torrents of water running down streets, large lake-like “puddles” pooling in the middle of roads, flooding streets. Sometimes it doesn’t even take that much rain to produce these things.

The reason we see these each time we get a storm is due to the concrete jungle.

Typically, when rain falls, most of it is absorbed into the ground. During heavy rains, some water won’t be absorbed, but will be carried away above ground to areas where it will be absorbed.

This animation (by Chris MacDougall) and infographic (by Leo Kavanagh and Babak Najafi) explain how urbanization can lead to flooding.