Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative government is presenting its post-election budget today.

The financial document will be tabled amid economic uncertainty created by tariff threats from United States President Donald Trump.

Premier Tim Houston’s party won a larger majority after campaigning on promises to cut taxes and limit electricity rate hikes.

But that was before Trump threatened to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods, which could come as early as next month.

 

 

Statistics Canada will release its consumer price index report for January today.  Economists say they don’t expect much movement in the inflation numbers but do say the underlying change in prices will be clouded by the government’s G-S-T break which was in effect the entire month.  Canada’s annual inflation rate ticked down to 1.8 per cent in December largely because of the federal government’s sales tax pause.

 

 

Mount Saint Vincent University will soon offer a condensed Bachelor of Education program to help ease a provincial teacher shortage.  Students accepted into the post-secondary school’s Bachelor of Education program are being asked if they want to start classes in May instead of September.  If they opt into the 14-month program, students will have shorter holiday breaks.  Mount Saint Vincent joins Cape Breton University in offering a shorter teaching program in Nova Scotia.

 

 

The R-C-M-P say two missing snowmobilers have been found in the Cape Breton Highlands.

The pair were found Saturday amid strong winds and blowing snow near Oregon in Victoria County.

Police received help from search-and-rescue crews and the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax.

A spokesperson for the rescue centre says a Cormorant helicopter and a Hercules aircraft helped with the search.

 

 

Federal aviation investigators are set to begin a probe into Delta Air Lines crash in Toronto that turned a plane upside down on the tarmac at Pearson International Airport.

There were no deaths in the crash, though at least 18 people were injured and sent to hospital.

During a media conference Monday night, Airport Authority Fire Chief Todd Aitken didn’t have any information about what could have happened to cause the plane to flip as it was landing.

The C-E-O of Toronto Pearson airport says there may be delays for several days in the aftermath of Monday’s incident.

 

 

In sports,

In the Maritime Junior Hockey League, the Pictou County Weeks Crushers lost to the Summerside Western Capitals 5-4.