Canada’s cost-of-living crisis is forcing one in four parents to cut back on their own meals to ensure their children are fed, according to a Salvation Army report. With 58 per cent of families facing food insecurity, food bank visits have surged to over two million in March 2024 alone A bag of potatoes rests on metal crates of donated …
The arrests come amid a continuing crackdown on critics of President Kais Saied. Tunisian police arrested two prominent opposition leaders and surrounded the house of another critic of President Kais Saied, according to their relatives and lawyers. Chaima Aissa, leader of the National Salvation Front, and opposition figure Issam Chebbi were arrested by police on Wednesday. Issam Chebbi is the …
The National Salvation Front, a body representing the main parties in Tunisia’s opposition, including Ennahdha, has announced that it will boycott December elections to replace a parliament dissolved by President Kais Saied. Saied called the December vote after he suspended the Ennahdha-dominated assembly and dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi in July 2021, before later pushing through a new constitution that …
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