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The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel was closed for about four hours on Thursday due to a bomb threat, however no bomb was found.

According to CBC News the threat was received by the Tunnel Duty Free shop through a phone call.

Windsor police stated that the brief phone call to the Duty free Shop is the only evidence they have gathered.

They have also mentioned that they dusted a phone booth for fingerprints near the tunnel entrance on the Windsor side.

A father and his two children died in a garage fire in Warwick, Quebec on Tuesday morning.

CBC News reports that the remains found in the burning garage may belong to the residents of the home. Neighbours alerted fire fighters at around three AM.

A bitter child custody battle between the victim and his former partner may have played a role in the deaths. The father Jocelyn Marcoux had full custody of his children; however, a hearing was scheduled on Tuesday to modify that arrangement.

A 2-year-old girl drowned in a backyard pool in Laval on Sunday, reports CBC news.

Paramedics on the scene tried to resucitate the child before rushing her to the Cite de la Sante Hospital.

It is not known what led to the drowning.

This is the 41st drowning in Quebec this year; 12 more than at the same time last year.

Student groups are criticizing Montreal's two anglophone universities because of over spending on security.

In a report by the Montreal Gazette, the universities spent $500,000 extra on security during the student walkout last spring.

The FECQ and FEUQ called the extra spending wasteful and a poor management of public funds since both universities weren't as affected as francophone ones.

Read by Franco Proietti

Produced by Erica Bridgeman

Stories written by Carlo Spiridigliozzi, Daniel J. Rowe and Danny Aubry

The remains found in a Montreal park on Canada Day have been identified.

The human head found near a small lake at Angrignon Park were identified to belong to Jun Lin the SPVM told CBC News on Wednesday afternoon. The discovery was made by passers-by.

The severed head of the slain Concordia University engineering student remained the only missing part of Lin’s body. His hands and feet were mailed to political party headquarters in Ottawa and two schools in Vancouver over the last month but recovered.