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Alex McPhee

@ksituan

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🏜️ pronghorn/cartographer 🗺️ grain elevator enthusiast 🍁 maps and design, @CanadianPolling and @338Canada 🤠 25/m

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2 years
I bet most Americans don't even know what province this is 😒
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Most common second languages in Toronto:
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City limits in Canada vs. the United States...
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Average rural NDP candidate
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The closest national park in Canada or the US:
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Spent literally all day thinking "I'm going to redo this using the proper full boundaries as soon as I get home".
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Distance to the nearest National Park.
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2 years
Just kiss already!!
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Population density of Canada.
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3 years
I never get bored of pointing this out. #30DayMapChallenge Day 4, Hexagons.
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2 years
This map looks kind of like a threat.
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3 years
Pleased to announce I've officially won the @NDP nomination in my home riding, Cypress Hills—Grasslands! I think this makes me the first election mapmaker to appear on a federal ballot, AMA.
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1 year
Justin Trudeau wants to erase our history by redesigning the credit card in your wallet. Reply to this tweet with pictures of the front and back to show him that you're proud to be Canadian
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2 years
Update
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3 years
Thank you everyone. I officially got more votes than Derek Sloan and his entire family 🥲
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3 years
Map of the largest election in human history.
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10 months
My actual favourite map from that job. It's an interesting part of the census!!
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1 year
Saskatchewan and Arizona residents getting an extra hour of sleep this weekend:
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3 years
Every post office in Canada.
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The 2021 census says that 5 people live in the B.C. panhandle. I hope they're having a good day.
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3 years
2019 polling place results.
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2 years
Results of the 2021 Canadian federal election.
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4 years
We are a logarithmic country.
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2 years
Also this is real
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1 year
My first state honour!!! Nominated for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal (in the Arts) because someone really liked my maps!!!
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6 months
So I digitized the map of where the Ontario Liberal Party allowed leadership voting by mail, and frankly, what the hell?
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The latest incarnation of my Saskatchewan municipal map.
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2 years
I stayed up all night to release this on census day. How many Canadian towns can you name? (Works in browser)
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3 years
Actual poster at NDP provincial headquarters:
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3 years
Ah, the neighbourhood GIS store.
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4 years
Introducing: Wontana
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2 years
Dominant Chinese dialect in Vancouver (2016).
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2 years
The Minnesota State Senate. One of the luckiest breaks of 2022, flipped by one seat on an all-new map.
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Ukrainian rural population in the Prairie Provinces, 1936.
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3 years
And now, the mother of parliaments. Spent a few days making this.
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2 years
Finally, a map of the Canadian Senate. This is how you can tell I've run out of useful things to do.
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2 years
What's the relationship between oil wells and separatism? In Saskatchewan, a very close one!
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3 years
With all polls reporting, it's my pleasure to release my cartogram of popular vote in the 2021 federal election:
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2 years
(Rolls the dice)
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2022 canola acreage on the Canadian Prairies:
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Map of farmland values in Canada, 2023.
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2 years
The people demand a plebiscite on Long Saskatchewan. #Norxit
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3 years
Poll-level results of the 2019 Canadian election.
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3 years
Just waiting out here for Canada to have literally any rural public transit...
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2 years
All the Canadian party logos (collected by me).
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1 year
Four maps that explain a lot about Saskatchewan:
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2 years
We're second place!
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The languages of New Brunswick.
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The duality of Prince Edward Island...
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2 years
Pleased to announce that I've been acclaimed Vice-President of the Canadian Cartographic Association! As a self-taught young person I am especially interested in making @CdnCarto more relevant to amateurs - let's start talking about how to turn loving maps into a career.
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3 years
Although this may look like a perfectly random and spontaneous interaction, the other person in frame is actually my husband 😩😩
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4 months
How to read a Western Canadian legal land description (now in colour!)
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4 years
Uh-oh! Your timeline has been cursed by American Saskatchewan.
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How to read a prairie legal land description. This was a really fun contract!
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3 years
The mean centre of population of every ethnicity in Canada. #30DayMapChallenge Day 12 (Population).
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Median income in Canada, blue is highest.
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I'm on the CBC 😭
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2 years
And that's the entire Ontario legislature. I think the shapes make it a little easier to navigate than a regular cartogram.
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Endlessly fascinated by "county" government in Ontario. I made this in university:
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US-style demographic map of Toronto.
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Most common 2nd languages in Metro Vancouver:
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Saskatchewan has more counties than Texas.
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4 years
So, the embarrassing truth is that I have a 5-year worldbuilding project. These are the 60 provinces of New Columbia, never before presented in this format. Please, for God's sake, ask me something about them.
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90% of Canada lives south of Airdrie:
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2 years
The game that I specifically designed to waste 2 hours of Justin McElroy's time has wasted 2 hours of Justin McElroy's time. My work here is done.
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calling it there before i enter an obsessive place and realize it's 2 in the morning
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Only 49 left to do...
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My very first map of Saskatchewan municipalities that I made in 2017! Ultimately this would become a life-destroying obsession of mine:
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2 years
Map of the Nevada Assembly. Land doesn't vote...
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2 years
Today is my 24th birthday. In the last year, I was stomped by a 61% margin and got my name on Wikipedia. I will never give up and hope to be an even bigger nuisance this year. Believe in yourself 🤠✌️
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2022 wheat acreage on the Canadian Prairies:
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My first government-approved visitor map is now a reality!!!
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2 years
Nobody asked, but I work in a creative field that's already been hollowed out by automation, so I have some thoughts about AI artwork.
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Happy New Year! Thank you very much for supporting my map business, today is my possession day of an original small town Eaton's catalogue house. Please keep buying maps because the whole second floor needs to be gutted asap.
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Australia why is your population distributed like this 🥹
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The Nevada State Assembly: because sometimes a city needs to take up more space on the map than the rest of the state does.
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My job is safe for now.
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3 years
Pleased to announce that I'll be joining @LeanTossup this year - expect interactive maps, Canadian content, and a complete overhaul of the site.
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3 years
Welcome to Canada 💗🏳️‍🌈
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Your nearest national park in Canada:
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2 years
The world's first memorial to the Holodomor. Edmonton, Alberta (1983).
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By popular demand:
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This is so unsettling
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Map of leaked protest donations by province.
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Pleased to announce that I am now Canada's first newsroom cartographer - courtesy of @MainStResearch , @ipoliticsca , and @QPbriefing , who have split me three ways. Expect some very good web graphics, starting with the Ontario election this year.
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3 months
Kind of surreal to see my own work hanging in the map library where I always skipped class in undergrad!!!
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2 years
Every Saskatchewan election:
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6 months
Years ago I had this idea of publishing an enormous poster featuring all 50 state legislatures. The 🇨🇦 exchange rate has gotten really bad, so maybe I should get back into it?
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2 years
The Alberta NDP wins Medicine Hat outright, 1,850 votes to 1,694!!
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2 years
Few people know that Canada's Baptists are overwhelmingly concentrated in the Atlantic Provinces. Now you're one of them.
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1 year
Favourite complaint about my Saskatchewan map: "Why is all the interesting stuff so close to the bottom?"
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The most spoken second languages in Winnipeg. Done for a piece about the Manitoba election last year.
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2 years
I'm going to ask the Governor General to install me as MP. I will ask really nicely. Wish me luck!
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This is because most provinces have some kind of review process for municipal annexations. The Alberta government frequently rejects proposals just for being ugly:
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3 years
All the Hutterite colonies in North America. I use Natural Earth data for most of my base maps, so Day 13 of the #30DayMapChallenge didn't take any special effort.
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2 years
Results of Alberta's DST referendum. Abolition failed by 2,546 votes.
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4 years
I made this promise a while ago. All 50 of my state legislative election maps are now available on Wikimedia Commons. Please use them where they're needed, I don't have any experience with U.S. election pages.
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1 year
Is your town closer to Saskatoon or Regina?
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3 years
Cypress Hills—Grasslands finally reported and the last pile of late mail ballots was great for us: we got 214 more votes, the PPC got 28 😬 This bumped us from 10.20% to 10.52% 😎
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