Global National: Sept. 28

As the pressure mounts on governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Canadian politicians announced a massive new electric vehicle battery production plant, slated to be built on Montreal’s south shore. A look at the multi-billion dollar deal with a Swedish manufacturer, and the skepticism over whether it will pay off for Canada’s economy. Three years after livestreaming her final hours in a Quebec hospital, documeting how she was ignored by staff and insulted with racist taunts, Quebec community members are remembering Joyce Echaquan. How Echaquan’s family and Indigenous communities are honouring her, and working to ensure what happened is never repeated. The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh has announced it will dissolve itself and that the republic will “cease to exist,” with Armenian officials saying more than half the region’s population of 120,000 has already fled. We look at the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the region’s growing humanitarian crisis. Plus, Sir Michael Gambon, the actor best known for playing the role of Albus Dumbledore in six “Harry Potter” films, has died at the age of 82. We look back on how Gambon’s career transcended the wizarding world.