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Graphic: The state of Palestine
Becoming a non-member observer state at the United Nations may do nothing to change conditions in the West Bank and Gaza. The areas rely heavily on aid, poverty is rife, unemployment is high and living standards are low.
Graphic: U.S. 2012 election results
Barack Obama has been declared victor in the 2012 US election. Here’s a breakdown of the electoral map.
Superstorm Sandy: NYC neighbourhood burns to the ground, three New Jersey towns under water as death toll rises to 33
While the full extent of Hurricane Sandy’s damage remains unclear, millions of Americans awoke to a crippled East Coast Tuesday with flooded and damaged homes, a Manhattan shrouded in darkness while a New York neighbourhood burned to the ground and “unthinkable” damage to the Jersey Shore. (Map: Andrew Bar, Richard Johnson/National Post)
Graphic: Sizing up Google’s earnings stumble
Google lost US$15.8-billion after dismal quarterly results. We put the massive stumble in perspective. (Illustration: Richard Johnson/National Post)
Election century
The defining issues of the U.S. elections in 1908 and 2008 charted similar territory — a banking crisis, a loss of consumer confidence and a plummeting economy. With less than a month to go before the 2012 election, the National Post looks back at a century of election results and the issues of the day. (Graphic by Richard Johnson/National Post)
Graphic: A chronicle of all of the lives claimed by Mount Everest
After four mountain climbers died in what is being called a “traffic jam” on Mount Everest, the National Post looks at the death toll inflicted on those attempting to get to the world’s highest point.
Related:
Canadian woman’s body recovered on Mount Everest by Sherpas
Graphic: Tracing common consumer products back to their slave-labour origins
Statistics from a U.S. government study are helping trace common consumer products back to slave-labour origins. Findings released in the 2011 report from the U.S. Department of Labour outline 71 countries involved in exploitative labour practices, spanning 130 product types.
The National Post graphics department takes a look at this data and charts out what it means.
![Graphic: Taking stock of the world’s nuclear missiles
This week, China urged Russia and the United States to slash their nuclear arms. Top Chinese official Cheng Jingye told a meeting in Vienna, “As countries with [the] largest nuclear arsenals, the U.S. and Russia should continue to make drastic reductions in their nuclear arsenals in a verifiable and irreversible manner.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3m93by5UZ1qze0z6o1_1280.gif)
Graphic: Taking stock of the world’s nuclear missiles
This week, China urged Russia and the United States to slash their nuclear arms. Top Chinese official Cheng Jingye told a meeting in Vienna, “As countries with [the] largest nuclear arsenals, the U.S. and Russia should continue to make drastic reductions in their nuclear arsenals in a verifiable and irreversible manner.”
Graphic: The death penalty across the world
How does the world view capital punishment? What are the numbers of deaths around the world? The National Post’s graphics team takes a close look at the death penalty.
Winnipeg is bracing for an early mosquito invasion
Winnipeggers might have welcomed this year’s early snow melt, but now they are bracing for its consequence: An early mosquito invasion. The insects are slated to buzz into Winnipeg sooner than usual, so the city’s insect control branch this week launched its larviciding activities, working to kill them before they reach the flying adult, biting stage.
The National Post’s Kathryn Blaze Carlson spoke with city councillor Scott Fielding about life in mosquitoville.
The high life: Hundreds of metres up, the rock stars of Toronto’s building boom help keep the city growing
The crane operators’ union estimates 300 tower cranes toil right now in greater Toronto, far more than any other city in North America. Operators are shipping cranes here from the United States, England and Italy to meet local demand.
In Toronto’s building frenzy, crane operators are the rock stars. (Photo: Aaron Lynett/National Post)
Yesterday it was suggested our raccoon green bin graphic needed more Snoop Dogg. Wish = granted.
Saw the original on my dash and I had to
(via snoopdiagrams)
