Graeme Bruce
Graeme Bruce turns complex environmental data into clear charts, maps and interactive explainers for CBC News, with a particular focus on showing the scale and impact of wildfire seasons. He works as a data and graphics producer, building visual stories that sit at the intersection of environment, policy and economics. His work often uses national datasets and visual tools to make abstract risks and decisions tangible.
Tracking wildfires in Canada
Bruce is a central producer on CBC News coverage that tracks wildfires across Canada using maps, charts and live data.
In pieces such as the wildfire tracker and chart-led stories on how bad the current wildfire season is, he organizes fire activity into visual formats that show where conditions are most severe and how they evolve over time. His environmental stories rely on geographic visualization and simple metrics to convey the spread and intensity of fires, grounding national climate risk in specific locations and patterns.
The emphasis is on legibility: readers see wildfires as a moving system, not a series of isolated incidents.
Visualizing trade disputes and economic ties
Alongside environment, Bruce regularly explains trade and economic policy through data-driven visuals. He produces chart-heavy stories on how Canada’s economy stacks up against the European Union, using comparative graphics to show the depth and structure of the relationship.
In coverage of tariffs and trade disputes, he builds trackers and chart sets that show which tariffs are still in place between Canada and the United States and where new measures could bite hardest. His work on damage to America’s wine industry from trade actions uses the same approach, turning policy decisions into visible impacts on specific sectors.
This trade and economics reporting complements his environmental beat by showing how policy regimes and market forces shape the context in which environmental decisions are made.
Mapping time zones and political age gaps
Bruce also produces visual explainers on how large systems affect daily life, including time zones and political leadership.
In his piece on Canada’s increasingly complicated time zones, he uses maps to lay out the changing landscape of regional time rules, highlighting where and how the system has shifted. His story on the age of U.S. presidents compared with Canadian prime ministers uses charts to show long-term trends in political leadership, turning demographic data into a concise visual narrative.
These pieces share the same core method as his wildfire and trade work: they take broad, structural questions and answer them with clear graphics that show change across geography and time.
Building data-driven news graphics
Bruce is described by the CBC as a producer of data visualizations and graphics, and as a data and graphics producer for CBC News. He previously worked as a digital editor at the Winnipeg Free Press before moving into his current role.
In his own professional materials, he describes himself as a data journalist with expertise in creating data-driven visual content and performing in-depth analysis across sectors including economics, health and politics. Within the CBC, he works with large datasets to underpin national and international news items, collaborating with designers and reporters to ensure visual elements are accurate and accessible.
Across environment, trade, politics and systems stories, the distinguishing feature of his coverage is the consistent use of charts, maps and interactive tools to make complicated subjects readable in a glance.
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Angela Capobianco
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Bianca McKeown
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