Dispatches from Canada's North

Where is home? After flirting with the Canadian North for a decade, Hélèna Katz traded the familiarity of downtown Montreal for an alpaca farm in the Northwest Territories. New experiences captivated her: travelling an ice road, scraping a moosehide alongside a group of Dene women, and eating reindeer meat. Then the day-to-day reality of bears dropping by for lunch set in, along with some shopping...