Health workers wearing surgical masks as a precaution against swine flu infection are seen at the airport in Mexico City

Swine fever spreads to New York and Canada

News Mon 27 Apr, AT 09:25

Britain and other countries try to contain a potential pandemic as suspected outbreaks are reported across the globe

An Arctic summer cruise

News Tue 24 Mar, AT 16:24

Canadian north without ice

Snow joke

You might call Scarlett Hooft Graafland a kind of method artist. For her latest project You Winter, Let's Get Divorced, the Dutch photographer spent four months living in the remote Inuit community of Igloolik in northern Canada using the bleak, unfriendly icescapes as both setting and subject for her series of visual jokes. Like Lemonade Igloo (2008) above, they are surreal natural sculptures (with performance art thrown in) made out of ice, snow, people and props. Barmy they are, but serious nonetheless.

The polar bear capital

News Thu 18 Sep, AT 10:28

March of the polar bears

Stephen Harper should be a Tory icon

News Thu 11 Sep, AT 11:59

British politicians could learn a lot from the Canadian PM’s adroit political manoeuvring

Freshwater fun

News Thu 14 Aug, AT 09:48

Wasaga beach, Canada

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