{
  "id": 18982617,
  "title": "Unexploded shell recovered by military along St. Lawrence River",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/08/unexploded-shell-recovered-by-military-along-st-lawrence-river",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-08T17:13:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Global News",
    "slug": "global-news",
    "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/12141842/unexploded-shell-st-lawrence-river/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Quebec police report that the Canadian military has retrieved an unexploded shell from the St. Lawrence River near Trois-Rivières. On Friday, police established a security perimeter in Nicolet while soldiers recovered the object, which they deemed non-threatening. The municipality announced on social media that the Canadian Armed Forces would transport the shell to a secure location for destruction. The shell was discovered submerged in the Port Saint-François area, located across the St. Lawrence River from Trois-Rivières. Two shells were found in the same area just two days apart in July of last year. From 1952 to 2000, the Defence Department carried out tests at a munitions test centre in Nicolet, firing munitions into Lac Saint Pierre, which the river flows through. The federal government now states that firing takes place inside a containment berm filled with sand, where munitions are recovered afterward. Global News has been designated as a Preferred Source on Google for readers to access more of these stories in their search results.",
  "summary": "The town says the shell had been submerged under a rising tide in the Port Saint-François area across the St. Lawrence River from Trois-Rivières.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Military recovers unexploded shell along banks of St. Lawrence River",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/08/military-recovers-unexploded-shell-along-banks-of-st-lawrence-river",
        "published": "2026-11-08T16:43:27.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}