Nick Lees: Edmonton designer creates tall art for High Arctic

Edmonton designer Wei Yew is believed to have created one of the world’s largest sculptures north of the Arctic Circle.
It’s a 5½-metre maple leaf sculpture just placed outside the new $250-million Canadian High Arctic Research Station in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
“I wanted to reflect the culture of the people there with a polar iconic structure,” said Yew, who has designed everything from Calgary’s 1988 Winter Olympics arts festival to the Moriyama Royal Archi