It is set to publish its consumer price index for the month later this morning.

The annual rate of inflation rose to 2.4 per cent in March, as gas prices soared amid the war in the Middle East.

The U.S. undersecretary of defence for policy says the United States is pausing the long-standing Permanent Joint Board on Defense with Canada.

Elbridge Colby says the review is needed because Canada has not made credible progress on its defence commitments despite recent spending increases.

The advisory board has guided Canada-U-S military co-operation since 1940.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government recently boosted defence spending to 63.4-billion-dollars, allowing Canada to meet NATO’s two per cent spending target for the first time.

Nova Scotia Health says that a 32-year old patient who was reported as missing on Monday from the Colchester East Hants Health Center in Truro has been located and returned.  Nova Scotia Health thanks those who assisted in the patient’s safe return.

Cineplex is adding more showings for a made-in-Nova Scotia movie.   That’s as demand for indie film “Little Lorraine” continues across eastern Canada.   The fictional movie is about how a Cape Breton town becomes home to a drug-smuggling ring.  It was loosely inspired by true stories of local Nova Scotia fisherman transporting drugs in the 80s and 90s.