Hey everyone, I know both Zain & his wife, Sophia. We all worked together for #SaveOldGrowth & #StopEcocide work here in #BritishColumbia. What's happened to Zain is unjust & I'm asking you all to please read this whole post & sign the #petition. Thanks for your time & help. Please boost for wider reach.

* Last week, Prime Minister #MarkCarney revealed Lena Metledge Diab will serve as Canada’s new Immigration Minister.

The first thing Diab should do as Minister is bring #ClimateActivist Zain Haq back to Canada by greenlighting his Temporary Residence Permit that has been processing since January.

Zain was deported to Pakistan in January for climate activism that resulted in low-level mischief charges. He’d been living in Canada his entire adult life, and with his Canadian wife, Sophia Papp, since 2023.

Sophia has been given the devastating choice to remain in Canada without her spouse or relocate to #Pakistan , where she doesn’t speak the language and faces significant barriers to her health and wellbeing.

A mere 48 hours before Zain was deported, he and Sophia’s Spousal Sponsorship application was rejected by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) without substantive explanation.

The couple’s lawyer, Randall Cohn, has stated that this eleventh-hour rejection is likely illegal. It also denied Zain and Sophia’s right to procedural fairness, since they didn’t have time to access the appeal process enshrined in the #BillOfRights.

Zain and Sophia’s situation is reminiscent of the #unethical treatment of many #migrants in the U.S.

#IRCC ’s last minute rejection of a young couple’s Sponsorship Application without substantive reason should raise alarm bells for anyone of conscience, but especially for those with a #legal background – and before getting into #politics , Minister Diab was a #lawyer in Halifax. That’s why we have to get Zain’s file on her desk as soon as possible. *

https://info.dogwoodbc.ca/Nzc0LVNITy0yMjgAAAGaojayXiZm_H7wcAp51xUGCu4p2_h2edKAe6DW18ZVVROirXyyQRTyy9tQvopvAaCqJ1jgk0U=

I am 54 now, born in 1970. The Shell board members are all my age. WTF. These fossils need to act now, for sure. But in 2050, the people in charge will also be in their 50s. They are now in their mid 20s. They are your friends, the people you go to school or festivals with, the people you date or meet in the pub. They are approachable. Yet they'll rule the world in 2050. Make them hear you now, while they are not as corrupted by money and power as my peers are. #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis

Good!! Hope the price goes up A LOT!! #Beef is the worst of all food choices. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #food #foodsecurity #starvation #poverty #landuse #water #climateaction #equality #justice #vegan #vegetarian #plantbased

The #Canada #Pension Plan #CPP has been lambasted by industry #watchdog #ShiftAction for dropping its 2022 commitment to invest in line with the country’s #NetZero action targets.

Shift Action said the move by the CPP investment board #CPPIB was an “unacceptable abdication of responsibility” to the 22 million #Canadians whose #retirement savings it handles and also “difficult to find” in the organization’s 2025 Annual Report, mentioned just once on the 23rd page of the report released Wednesday morning.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/21/news/canada-pension-plan-dropping-net-zero-target?mkt_tok=Nzc0LVNITy0yMjgAAAGanDpWyuEftukv0fedsGnIuYMv-8HDfa7QLw7b36PerfFwljqn4lId_t3V1m9cRmJwbt3-U_VRhSzmmm1UOnpnp8LkYoMzzFftaUhNjylLi_A

95-Metre ‘Mega-Banner’ Urges #Carney to Pick a Path, Choose Renewables and #ClimateAction

Ahead of next week’s Speech from the Throne, four national climate groups mounted a 95-metre fabric installation in Ottawa’s Major’s Hill Park on Wednesday, urging Prime Minister #MarkCarney to “pick a path” between new oil and gas #pipelines and climate action.

On the same day, Faith and Climate Action held a “pray-in” at #RoyalBank of #Canada headquarters in Toronto, protesting bank financing for new #fossilfuel infrastructure like the proposed #PrinceRupert Gas Transmission #PRGT project in #BritishColumbia which is expected to receive #BCgovernment approval within days.

The “mega-banner” in #Ottawa “took over 20 hours to construct, dozens of volunteers, sheer grit, and caffeine-fuelled delusion,” wrote Emily Lowan, fossil fuel supply campaigns lead at Climate Action Network-Canada (CAN-Rac), in an email to supporters. “It may even break records as the largest banner in Canadian #climate movement history!”

https://www.theenergymix.com/95-metre-mega-banner-urges-carney-to-pick-a-path-choose-renewables-and-climate-action

LOVE. THIS. #ClimateAction #NoMorePipelines #cdnpoli #MarkCarney

“#California’s budget will be decided in the next few weeks, and we’re scrambling to get $400 million in funding restored to the #ActiveTransportation Program (ATP), which funds projects that support people #biking, #walking, and #rolling.—#CalBike https://www.calbike.org/invest-divest/#help

#GlobalWarming in action. When we wait until we reach a tipping point at which we see mass deaths of sea fauna and flora, it will be too late. The problem is that the existence of such tipping points is beyond our imagination, until they have been reached... #ClimateChange #ClimateAction

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7533y6l3k0o

Devastatingly calm, clear essay from #EllaWard, due to be sentenced on Friday for planning to "make clear that the UK’s ‘business as usual’ approach is sending humanity over a cliff edge into destruction, displacement, and massive loss of life"
#ClimateAction #juststopoil
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/just-stop-oil-protester-prison-activist-manchester-airport

Cities are where it's at for seeing real #ClimateAction happen. It's why we do what we do. With a municipal election coming in the fall we checked in with #ClimateRealityCanada to see which cities are scoring BIG on the #NationalClimateLeague! https://www.podcastics.com/episode/362096/link/ #yyc #yyccc

Can you spare a few quid?

Pls help Myiesha & her mother (Myiesha is under 18 & needs chaperone) go to Washington DC to lobby for climate action, as part of #ccl’s Summer Conference and Lobby Day?

@ccl_central_il @CCLHouston @citizensclimate @CCLBoston @cclusa.org

https://gofund.me/89459d1c

Dear _ ,

What can I do to enable your future to happen? Given the opportunity, I would vote for bold climate & transit policy; I would support Indigenous-led planning at the respective levels of government; I would make & support public investments in rail & renewables; I can eat locally-grown food. What carries food northward? Dream, speak, organize, repeat. What motivates a high-speed rail stop in Lethbridge? #JustTransition #PublicTransit #FoodSovereignty #PrairieFuture #ClimateAction ️

As much as I love woodland creation, my real passion for years has been ancient woodland restoration. My charity is hoping to acquire another 11 acres of ancient replanted woodland (PAWS) directly next to an existing bit of land we own, so I ask you: help us sponsor a few square meters, and I’ll get the job done. #AncientWoodland #ancientwoodlandrestoration #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateAction https://shop.protect.earth/products/ancient-woodland-restoration

1/2 The Union Of Concerned Scientists made a creepy #timeline: "Our painstakingly researched report, Decades of Deceit, comprehensively documents how major fossil fuel companies have misled the public and prevented climate action. The timeline below shows a small selection of their actions." https://www.ucs.org/resources/fossil-fuel-climate-deceit-timeline
Download report: https://www.ucs.org/resources/decades-deceit

When the oceans rise due to climate change, millions of people who live near the coast will have to immigrate to dry land.

People around the world better figure out how to stop hating immigrants. They may be one in the near future.

#ClimateAction
#Immigration