update:filed a petition to the UN Human Rights Committee and received interim measures telling Canada to defer removal. CBSA has agreed to do so. Ridiculous that this had to go all the way to the UNHRC for any govt actor to respond - but removal is cancelled, now there's time to try to retain status

Roxana Parsa@roxanaparsa.bsky.social · last mo.

Our client has lived here for almost 30 yrs as a PR. He is waiting on a hearing at the FCA about the constitutionality of the legislation that led to the loss of his permanent residence status. We are now trying to stop his removal. Pls sign the petition & write to the minster: shorturl.at/mt00j

This is at almost 900 signatures! help us get to 1000! Roman's removal is scheduled for September 25. We are doing everything possible via legal routes, but we need the support.

Roxana Parsa@roxanaparsa.bsky.social · last mo.

Our client has lived here for almost 30 yrs as a PR. He is waiting on a hearing at the FCA about the constitutionality of the legislation that led to the loss of his permanent residence status. We are now trying to stop his removal. Pls sign the petition & write to the minster: shorturl.at/mt00j

Toronto carpenter faces deportation after 30 years in Canada - A Toronto carpenter who spent 30 years living in Canada faces deportation as his lawyer says he was unfairly caught by refugee laws. Jon Woodward reports.

Toronto carpenter faces deportation after 30 years in Canada

A Toronto carpenter who spent 30 years living in Canada faces deportation as his lawyer says he was unfairly caught by refugee laws. Jon Woodward reports.

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Our client has lived here for almost 30 yrs as a PR. He is waiting on a hearing at the FCA about the constitutionality of the legislation that led to the loss of his permanent residence status. We are now trying to stop his removal. Pls sign the petition & write to the minster: shorturl.at/mt00j

Sign the Petition

Stop Roman’s Removal!

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Watched Amadeus yesterday (so fun) and All That Jazz today (incredible), I love movies again.

been reading Anna Karenina for the first time this summer...I love it

having a nice time in portugal

Embarrassing to me that I root for England

fifa sucks, america sucks, but the World Cup rules..I just love the truly global sport!

bringing back my site :) www.roxanaparsa.com

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

A great run of reading recently: My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley (obsessed), Gilead (a reread, always great), American Pastoral (my first Philip Roth! loved it, want to do more), and now reading Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno

The frustration and anger that radiates off of Reed -- rightly so -- is truly an indictment of why money and fame supersedes victims.

The Hollywood Reporter@thr.com · 6mo ago

Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993.

thankfully I didn't do this yet!

Roxana Parsa@roxanaparsa.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Is it finally time to put away my winter coat? Don't tempt me

Is it finally time to put away my winter coat? Don't tempt me

finally got to see this a few weeks ago, and it was really excellent and moving and it's so cool to see it getting justified praise

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Blue Heron, Sophy Romvari's exquisite first feature, blends meticulous observation and bold imagination; it's a story of a past that's still present, of memory as physical experience; it opens Friday at @ifccenter.bsky.social and elsewhere: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

on a quest to reignite some fluency in French - I have high comprehension/reading, but speaking and proper grammar have disappeared - I can't let all my years of french school go to waste!

We didn't deserve this day.

My family in Iran has had very sporadic internet access the past month, so communication has been in spurts. They always say they're fine - one time even did a video call on apartment roof to show the home shaking and bombs in the background - while we sit here and watch and tell them to go inside.

“a whole civilization will die tonight” is actually sickening, disgusting world and country that has allowed this, and canada no better for standing alongside as it continues

really recommend reading Naghmeh Sohrabi's substack, where she has been translating perspectives and experiences from inside Iran truethings.naghmehs.com/p/power-plan...

Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, All Wrapped Up in One, in Iran

A beautiful letter from Zahra in Tehran as she waits for Tuesday

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American and Israeli missiles hit Sharif University in Tehran tonight. Often called #Iran’s MIT, the institution has been home to some of the country’s best and brightest minds in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since 1966. 1/2

decided to be on a quest to re-gain some fluency in French but I don't want to pay for classes at the moment, how can I actually accomplish this

this is a country of 93 million people

Trump Doubles Down on Iran Threat in New Interview After His Shocking Post: If There’s No Deal ‘We’re Blowing Up the Whole Country’

"If [a deal with Iran] happens, it happens," Trump told ABC's Rachel Scott in a new interview. "And if it doesn't, we're blowing up the whole country."

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what can you even say anymore..

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

President Trump: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”

The electric outage in Tehran is quite serious. I can count at least 5 hospitals in the area that seems to be currently in the blacked out zone. www.bbc.com/news/live/cj...

Power cuts in Tehran after energy infrastructure hit, Iran says, as industrial complex on fire in Israel

Tehran says it is

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I hated Project Hail Mary as it turns out that saccharine corny sci-fi is one of my least favourite types of movies (see also, everything everywhere all at once)

the idea of going through an online checkout on my phone feels wrong

Johnathan Perkins@johnathanperk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Somebody said millennials usually use their laptops (instead of smartphones) for major purchases, including booking flights. I can’t stop thinking about this.

my haftsin is putting to good use all the little bowls I've made in pottery classes