Kyron Beaton's Blog

Photograph  taken by David Burke             For years, Canada has banned the ownership of many different types of animals, including the animal depicted in the photograph attached to this blog -- a fennec fox, an animal that is native to North Africa. In British Columbia, it's known as a "Controlled Alien Species" -- in other words, an animal illegal to own in that province. It's in a  provincial listing  of all mammals considered as "Controlled Alien Species", and so far, B.C. is the most strict when it comes to exotic animal ownership. Meanwhile, other provinces are more lenient towards handing out permits instead, and one thing to note is that animal ownership is handled on a provincial level, not on a federal level with some exceptions (such as migratory birds). So what makes exotic animals like this fox illegal to own throughout Canada regardless? Is it a risk to public safety? Would that animal suddenly become a hindrance on ...

            The line graph shown above* is meant to advertise a Tax-Free Savings Account for blue-collar oriented workers and students. What makes this line chart unique is that its zero-point mark (Article B) is in fact a marker for $5,000 -- meant to represent what would be a consumer’s initial investment into this savings account. As the chart is both chronological and incremental, in that it shows how much a consumer would make over time with their initial investment into the savings account, this allows for a line chart to be much more effective in representing this data than a bar chart, simply because line charts are able to express these two points of data far more easier, especially when conjoined. What makes this chart ineffective is that although the two colored lines (Article D) give a clear indication between each company, it is not clear which line represents the advertiser. Had the lettering in Article A matched the colors of the lines o...