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According to CBC, 50 homemade explosive devices have been removed by Ontario police officers from a suburban house in Barrie. Police say they have never seen so many explosives in one location.

The explosive devices were scattered through out the home. While some were hidden, others were laying out in the open. Police say it’s more explosives than they would normally find in a year.

2 more children have drowned in the family pool on Thursday.

According to CTV News, a 2 year old boy was found lifeless in a family pool in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines. This happened a mere 2 hours after another child was found at the bottom of the family pool in St-Remi. Both deaths happened in above ground pools.

Adults on the scene in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines tried to resuscitate the child with CPR. Their efforts failed and the child was pronounced dead in hospital at 4:45p.m.

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.

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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.

A brawl in Montreal North has sent a police officer to hospital.

According to the Montreal Gazette, a 36 year old female SPVM officer is in hospital with a severe head injury. She was attempting to break up a street fight that erupted early Wednesday morning. Her condition is considered to be non-life threatening.

The fight occurred in and around a building at the corner of Henri Bourassa East and Drapeau. There was an illegal party going on in the basement of the building at the time as well.