The candy, from the Quebec-based company Mondoux, was made available in Sobeys locations across Nova Scotia earlier this week. It has since been removed.

At Otis and Clementine's Books And Coffee, customers are often greeted by the cats as they browse books and sip on lattes.

At 7:45 a.m., RCMP received a complaint of suspicious persons on Westwood Boulevard in Tantallon.

A senseless act of homophobic vandalism has one Halifax-area family appealing to the public for help in bringing the perpetrators to justice. 

RCMP say just before 3 p.m., officers responded to a complaint that there were two suspicious women in a home. 

The licence plate was covered with what appears to be paper, secured with tape.

Police say they were called to reports of a collision on Peggy's Cove Road at approximately 7:15 a.m.

"If you're going to go out and drink and you're going to go out and have a good time, don't get behind the wheel."

According to police, officers responded to reports of a robbery at 11:37 p.m. near a business on Hammonds Plains Road. 

Police say the thieves made off with "a large amount of merchandise" from an unnamed store in Upper Tantallon.