Contemporary pop art goes local

Local artist Betty Liang says it's hard to put a label on her art. She has an art show at Venus Envy until March 31. She says she landed her show at the sex shop and feminist bookstore by accident after shop owner Shelley Taylor saw posters advertising Liang’s show at La Petite Mort Gallery on Cumberland Street.

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Garden show proposed for 2017

A group representing Canada’s horticultural industry is hoping to bring the International Horticultural Exhibition to Ottawa in 2017. Marketed as the “Olympics of Horticulture,” the proposed exhibition would bring the city its own botanical garden and more colour all around.

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