Hundreds gathered for Red Dress Day in Montreal on May 5th. A day to raise awareness for murdered and missing indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. 

The event was led by the Native Women's Shelter and started at Cabot Square with speeches and music before taking to the streets. Calls for more government action for MMIWG2S were made.

Past Tense host Ari speaks with Tim Biziaev of Lovelet in advance of the release of Lovelet's second full-length album, Freedom River Float, coming May 7th. In Tim's backyard, they discuss cross-country touring, the new album's recording process, and the meeting of country compilations with meditation cassettes.

Lovelet plays May 7th at Hemisphere Gauche alongside Taupe and Mitch Davis.

Listen to Lovelet here

“It’s okay to take a minute, if you need one,” Montreal’s RnB popstar Magi Merlin tells us, “this is a reminder for life”, but a minute is not what at all what Magi (pronounced Mahd-j-eye) is taking. The single Spicekick came out on April 1st (not a joke), officially announcing her second album, POWER HOUSE, to be released this July.

20 years since its release, David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada endures as one of the greatest chick flicks of all time. The film follows Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), a Northwestern University graduate with dreams of working as a serious journalist for an outlet like The New Yorker.

Hundreds of Montreal activists gathered otuside of the US consulate downtown on Wednesday, April 8th, to protest America and Israel's war with Iran, as well as attacks in Lebanon and Gaza.

The protest, organized by the Iranian Canadian Congress, was organized shortly after President Donald Trumps remarks that "a whole civilization [would] die" if the US terms were not met by Iran. However, a US-Iran ceasefire deal had been annoucned shortly before the protest began.

CJLO reporter Zach Jutras was on the gorund at the protest and spoke with the Iranian Canadian Council for reactions on the cease-fire, and Canada's careful rhetoric around the war in Iran. Listen here.