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MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Karen Lischka with her flower arraignment next to Phyllis Green’s, Boob Tree, during the installation of Art in Bloom at the WAG-Qaumajuq, which will be taking place April 17–19.

'Boob Tree' sculpture among WAG artwork reimagined at flower show

Jen Zoratti 6 minute read Updated: 11:45 AM CDT

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Karen Lischka and her adult daughters, Lauren Hall and Maddie Lischka, are figuring out how to transform hydrangeas into boobs.

They are among the more than 100 professional and amateur florists who will be interpreting 95 artworks from WAG-Qaumajuq’s permanent collection for this weekend’s Art in Bloom, a biennial show presented by the Associates of the WAG and Petals West that features fresh floral displays inspired by art in the gallery’s collection.

Pieces by Wanda Koop, Bîstyek, Marcel Dzama, Robert Houle and Abraham Anghik Ruben, to name a few, are among those getting the floral treatment.

For their installation, Lischka and her daughters have decided to riff on Phyllis Green’s iconic Boob Tree. The cheeky 1975 sculpture is exactly what it sounds like: a tree whose crown is composed entirely of bright pink crocheted breasts.

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Dramedy Mile End Kicks captures 20-something angst, confusion

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Dramedy Mile End Kicks captures 20-something angst, confusion

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Canadian writer-director Chandler Levack is becoming an auteur of spiky, self-aware, semi-autobiographical nostalgia.

Her 2022 feature debut I Like Movies related the awkward coming-of-age story of a teenage video store clerk in Burlington, Ont., in 2003.

In this deliberately loose dramedy, which debuted at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Levack sets her wayback machine to the summer of 2011 in Montreal. Grace (Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira), a 24-year-old music critic, has just got off the bus, determined to do important work, have sex and possibly learn French.

Low rents on cool apartments in the neighbourhood of Mile End are drawing young artists, writers and musicians from all over Canada, Grace explains in an article she’s writing about the city’s indie music scene.

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Grace (Barbie Ferreira, right) becomes fascinated with Chevy (Stanley Simons) in Mile End Kicks.
Joe Fuda photo Grace (Barbie Ferreira, right) becomes fascinated with Chevy (Stanley Simons) in Mile End Kicks.
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Montreal to display collection from iconic Chinatown noodle shop

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Montreal to display collection from iconic Chinatown noodle shop

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MONTREAL - The City of Montreal has acquired a collection of items from an iconic Chinatown noodle factory and shop that closed down last year.

In 2022, Jean-Philippe Riopel co-founded a non-profit organization called Objets de mémoire, which dedicated itself to recovering artifacts from Wing Noodles Ltd. 

The collection, which comprises more than 5,000 items, was donated to the city's Centre des mémoires montréalaises and will be displayed in the coming years as part of various museum projects.

The goal is to preserve the heritage of the iconic site in Montreal’s Chinatown, which has been described as a pillar of Montreal’s history of migration, trade and neighbourhood life.

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A worker makes almond cookies at Wing Noodles Ltd. in Montreal's Chinatown on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. The company has announced it will be closing at the end of November. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
A worker makes almond cookies at Wing Noodles Ltd. in Montreal's Chinatown on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. The company has announced it will be closing at the end of November. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

MCO’s new season sure to delight

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Had the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra trotted out that classic cliché of marketing speak — “a season full of surprises!” — about its upcoming lineup, it would have rung true.

The MCO’s 2026-27 season takes a cinematic turn, with works by such Hollywood film-score heavy hitters as Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt and even Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. It’s a treat whenever we hear Winnipeg’s cosy churches resonate with the best of these composers.

Though this isn’t really the surprising thing. The MCO has always been one of the Prairies’ leading champions of contemporary Canadian classical, and the upcoming season is especially adventurous in this respect.

In three concert programs, guest performers are also composers — acclaimed contralto Rose Naggar-Tremblay on Sept. 23, Florian Hoefner Jazz Quartet on Nov. 4 and flutist and hoop dancer V. J. Sparvier-Wells on March 17 — breaking down one of classical music’s traditional divisions.

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Lisa Marie Mazzucco photo Pianist Simone Dinnerstein will reprise Piano Concerto No. 3 by Philip Glass during the MCO’s new season.

Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are breaking up and phasing out their podcast

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Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are breaking up and phasing out their podcast

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Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are splitting up.

The sports power couple announced Friday that they are ending their 10-year relationship and phasing out their popular podcast, “A Touch More.” They dropped the news together on the podcast.

“I hope you all know we put a lot of thought and care into this,” said Rapinoe, who rose to fame as a member of the Women’s World Cup team in 2011, 2015 and 2019. “It’s a decision that we made together. We’re still going to be there for all of you and for each other. It’s just going to look and feel a little bit different.

“We truly are evolving into something new to each other, to ourselves and to all of you, and we just wanted to say thank you for sharing this space with us and giving us this space for us to find ourselves in a different way through this podcast.”

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FILE - Megan Rapinoe, left, and Sue Bird pose for photographs before a WNBA basketball game between the Storm and the Washington Mystics, Sunday, June 11, 2023, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
FILE - Megan Rapinoe, left, and Sue Bird pose for photographs before a WNBA basketball game between the Storm and the Washington Mystics, Sunday, June 11, 2023, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

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‘Mile End Kicks’ star Barbie Ferreira says she supports ‘Euphoria’ cast, is ‘totally cool’ with not being eligible for Canadian Screen Award

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‘Mile End Kicks’ star Barbie Ferreira says she supports ‘Euphoria’ cast, is ‘totally cool’ with not being eligible for Canadian Screen Award

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 Barbie Ferreira has put her "Euphoria" days behind her. 

The actress played Kat for two seasons on the hit HBO drama, which returned with Season 3 last week.

"It's not that I don't care about it, it's just been four years since I've been on it. So for me, I have moved on with my career," Ferreira said in a video interview Tuesday from Los Angeles.

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Opening statements set for Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial

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NEW YORK (AP) — Opening statements are set for Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein 's third trial on a New York rape charge.

Four days of jury selection wrapped up Friday in the case against the former Hollywood powerbroker turned #MeToo pariah. A jury of seven men and five women will be tasked with deciding whether he raped a woman in a Manhattan hotel in 2013.

Weinstein has pleaded not guilty. The trial is expected to take up to four weeks.

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FACT FOCUS: RFK Jr. says the US is limiting measles outbreaks better than the rest of the world

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that the U.S., under his leadership, is limiting the spread of measles better than any other country in the world.

His most recent comments came Friday as he testified in his first congressional hearings in months, in which he sought to defend a more than 12% proposed cut to his department’s budget.

THE CLAIM: “The measles outbreak is not an American phenomenon. It is global. It’s happening all over the world. And we’ve done better under my leadership than any country in the world in limiting it.”

THE FACTS: Measles is surging around the world, and other countries have seen bigger outbreaks in 2025 and 2026 than the U.S., including neighboring Mexico and Canada. Overseas, most world regions logged higher case counts than the Americas did in 2025, and an ongoing outbreak in Bangladesh has killed more than 100 children.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears before the House Education and Workforce Committee to defend his agency's policies and goals at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears before the House Education and Workforce Committee to defend his agency's policies and goals at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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