Abortion access, specifically surgical abortion access, is under threat in Ontario.

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.

No matter where you live in Canada, you are probably feeling the wrath of the holiday deep freeze.

With recreational marijuana becoming legal in 2018, the habits of Canadian consumers are bound to change.

The government of Canada is gearing up for another public education push linked to radon, a potentially harmful gas lurking in high concentrations in close to 1 in 10 Canadian homes.

How much are the three levels of government spending on Canada’s birthday celebrations?

Back to school is the second busiest shopping season for Canadians, right after Christmas. And the Labour Day long weekend is traditionally when the bulk of the school supplies are bought.

Canada’s defence industry is increasingly selling its wares abroad, according to a new joint report from the economic development ministry and a defence industry association.

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.

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.

Mayor John Tory is hoping to show British officials Toronto is “under new management” in a trip to the UK this week. He’s not the first Toronto mayor to take international trips to boost the city’s image. Janet Cordahi‘s infographic and Andrew Miller‘s animation explore these trips.

More Canadians than ever support decriminalizing marijuana, according to a new Ipsos poll conducted on behalf of Global News.

A new report by Fitbit, the maker of wearable fitness trackers, takes a look at the workout habits of more than a million of its users in four countries around the world, including Canada.

Our Visual Journalist for Global Edmonton, Tonia Huynh continues to produce outstanding work.

Birding (or birdwatching) has become one of the fastest growing hobbies in North America. As the name suggests, it’s the act of watching, monitoring, feeding, filming, or photographing birds — of which there are more than 450 different kinds in Canada.

Royals come well-supplied with given names — Charles and William have four apiece and George has three, making eleven names between the three of them.