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3213328	有图 <p> <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-circle-email.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-soc-rdit.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-soc-tw.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-soc-li.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-circle-share.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <p><img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/common-icon/icon-close-black.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"><p>Share this Story : Hit hardest, fastest and longest: Why Windsor is ground zero in the Canada-U.S. trade war</p> <svg><g><g></g></g></svg> <svg><g><g></g><g></g></g></svg> Copy Link <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-circle-email.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Email <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-soc-tw.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> X <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-soc-rdit.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Reddit <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-soc-pin.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Pinterest <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-soc-li.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> LinkedIn <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-soc-tblr.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Tumblr </p><nav><p>Breadcrumb Trail Links</p>LongreadsNewsCanada</nav><p>Hit hardest, fastest and longest: Why Windsor is ground zero in the Canada-U.S. trade war<p>Windsor lives and dies by the auto industry, which is hitting the brakes due to Trump’s tariffs. But the border city has been caught up in America’s carnage before and kept on rolling</p><p><p>Author of the article:</p> Trevor Wilhelm </p><p>Published Jun 26, 2025 • Last updated Jun 27, 2025 • 19 minute read</p><p> <p><svg><mask></mask><g></g></svg></p> <p>Join the conversation <vf-conversations-count></vf-conversations-count></p> <p><p><p><p>You can save this article by registering for free here. 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Photo by Dan Janisse/Windsor Star</p><p>Article content<p>WINDSOR, Ont. — The Wu family of Windsor and their small auto parts company have been through booms, busts, a global pandemic — and survived it all. They didn’t see the tariffs coming.</p><p>The family’s 36-employee business, Stratus Plastics International, is an injection moulding company that makes car parts in an east Windsor industrial area. 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Activate your Online Access Now</p></footer></p></p><p>Article content</p><p>“We’re seeing fluctuations of volumes like crazy,” said vice-president Colby Wu, who has reduced staff hours in the dwindling hope of avoiding layoffs. “OK, Chrysler is running for two weeks. Now they’re gone for two weeks. And now we don’t even know when they’re going to start up,” said Wu.</p><p><p><p><img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/newsletters/icon-np-posted.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>NP Posted</p><p>Get a dash of perspective along with the trending news of the day in a very readable format.</p></p><p><form><p>There was an error, please provide a valid email address.</p>Sign Up</form><p>By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.</p><p>Thanks for signing up!</p><p>A welcome email is on its way. 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It’s Ford, GM, everybody … The uncertainty makes it even worse.”</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/plastics4_296001186.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=brSrrF-f5xXAAP_MDdsz4g, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/plastics4_296001186.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=-09hF1aJ23nFu_yHQl5IlA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/plastics4_296001186.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=4GxT8QgJJfpqgJ69Ln90rg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/plastics4_296001186.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=gibeMAOY8iSIxbkm_Nt3dw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/plastics4_296001186.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=rEJOe95OdnyHN3mDQessQg, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/plastics4_296001186.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Zh0dhMZAkO2Gdzw7_y3dRw" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Colby Wu, co-owner of Stratus Plastics International, in Windsor, in June. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star<p>Stratus is the second business started by his father, William Wu, a Chinese refugee who came to Canada in 1965. The elder Wu’s previous calling was creating clay models for auto companies before AutoCAD made the craft redundant.</p><p>In 2004, William Wu moved from the model shop and opened Stratus in a 30,000-square-foot plant. A few years later, the Great Recession hit, a worldwide crash that started in 2007 and killed businesses. Stratus was nearly one of them.</p><p>“I remember my father taking out all his life savings, dumping it into the business,” said Colby Wu. “Maxing out all his credit cards to pay payroll.”</p><p>The work started trickling back, and they brought automation to the factory. The business was flourishing — so much so, they expanded, opening another factory in Kentucky.</p><p>Then COVID-19 hit. Contracts were cancelled, and Wu was forced to sell the Kentucky facility, taking a huge loss, just to keep the doors open in Windsor.</p><p>Article content</p><p>“Magically, somehow, I ended up keeping this business in Windsor alive,” said Colby Wu.</p><p>Now tariffs are eating away at what they’ve built.</p><p>Job losses, dying companies, a tense showdown — Windsor is in the trenches of America’s trade war. This southwestern Ontario city, standing in the shadow of the Detroit skyline, has been the nexus of Canada’s auto and manufacturing sectors for 120 years.</p><p>Trump wants what Windsor has. And he’s not asking.</p><p>It’s an existential threat, but Windsor has been here before. In economic hard times, often brought on by American turmoil, this border city knows they’ll be hit first, hardest and longest.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cavalier.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=8KlVLdR6mSru2hOdUf3UJA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cavalier.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=PvT6-wcrJc-nfcrEP4WRBA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cavalier.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=472-ouAHnJe0ZSvgqW4STg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cavalier.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=WD2mb1V5ESqgNVLHhXwOuA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cavalier.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=6wMNIZQaMylH4jWMizZSRQ, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cavalier.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Yhg2uRnmrjzA3NW_f9G4RQ" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Cavalier Tool and Manufacturing has already lost about $15 million in sales to Trump’s tariffs. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star<p>Cavalier Tool and Manufacturing, a 250-employee company that has been riding the auto industry highs and lows since 1975, has already lost about $15 million in sales to Trump’s tariffs.</p><p>Smaller suppliers of companies like Cavalier are facing the end of the line. “They’re dead,” said Cavalier owner Brian Bendig. “There are like six shops right now that are going out of business. They depend on guys like us. It’s been catastrophic.”</p><p>Trump’s divergent reasons for swinging the tariff hammer against Canada have ranged from stopping the “cheaters” and “pillagers” taking advantage of the United States to ending the flow of illegal fentanyl.</p><p>Article content</p><p>But he’s mostly irritated about a U.S. trade deficit. He wants to protect American manufacturing — especially auto manufacturing — and that means upending international supply chains.</p><p>Trump’s long tariff list includes 25 per cent levies on all imports that don’t comply with the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). There is a 25 per cent tariff on all passenger vehicles and parts imported into the U.S., with partial carve-outs based on the amount of American content.</p><p>On June 3, Trump doubled the tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 50 per cent. It was another major blow to the auto industry, which is heavily dependent on those essential automaking materials.</p><p>Windsor is the canary in the mine shaft ... it is effectively like a poster child for how the economy goes through these cycles and waves</p><p>Dimitry Anastakis, University of Toronto business historian</p><p>And it’s the start of a vicious cycle. Increased costs for carmakers ultimately mean more expensive cars for consumers. That could lead to shrinking car sales, causing a decline in production — and lost jobs.</p><p>Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney met June 16 on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in Kananaskis, Alta., and agreed to a 30-day deadline to strike a trade deal. But that’s no sure thing with Trump.</p><p>And even if a deal does emerge, Windsor is already feeling the punches, which doesn’t bode well for the rest of Canada.</p><p>Article content</p><p>“Windsor is the canary in the mine shaft,” said Dimitry Anastakis, a University of Toronto business historian. It’s a barometer for Canada’s manufacturing economy, he said. “Because there’s such a concentration of auto manufacturing in Windsor, it is effectively like a poster child for how the economy goes through these cycles and waves.”</p>More to lose<p>Next to real estate, a vehicle is the average person’s biggest purchase. But most people shy away from car lots and finance applications when they’re worried about the economy imploding.</p><p>“The auto industry is a leading indicator of when things are not going well, because people don’t have the money to purchase vehicles and there’s a lack of confidence in the consumer market,” said Anastakis, who has published books about Canadian auto history and covers Windsor in his university lectures.</p><p>A late April report from the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario stated the tariffs would likely push Ontario into a recession in 2025. “Windsor is expected to be impacted the most,” the report stated.</p><p>It’s already happening. From March to April, Canada’s exports of passenger cars and light trucks plunged by 22.9 per cent, according to recent figures from Statistics Canada. Exports dropped after tariffs prompted manufacturers to ease off the production pedal.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Windsor’s unemployment rate spiked nearly two points from January to May, to 10.8 per cent, compared to the provincial unemployment rate of 7.9 per cent in May. Considering that every auto job creates about eight spinoff jobs, there’s more to lose.</p><p>“Tariffs are a big impact to the entire economy,” said Justin Falconer, CEO of Workforce WindsorEssex. “It’s very fair to say that it’s had a big impact on everything. It’s pulling it all down.”</p><p>Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens declined to comment for this story, but has told the Star in the past that Windsor is vulnerable to tariffs and that he is concentrating on economic development.</p><p>One early sign of Windsor’s worker troubles came punctuated with a union blockade.</p><p>“It wasn’t a pretty picture,” said Emile Nabbout, president of Unifor Local 195, who represents 3,000 manufacturing workers in Windsor.</p><p>On March 31, before its employees showed up to work, automotive supplier Titan Tool & Die sent a truckload of dies from its Windsor operation to a Michigan facility. Dies are customized manufacturing tools used to cut and shape various materials such as metal and plastic. They are used to make everything from paper clips to medical equipment. In this case, it’s car parts.</p><p>Article content</p><p>The company’s American customers wanted the equipment stateside so they wouldn’t have to pay tariffs on what the tools produced. That didn’t go over well with Titan’s unionized employees. “Some workers showed up at the facility,” said Nabbout, who was among them. “Unifor was left with no option but to take some type of action.”</p><p>When the company tried to haul out a second load of equipment, it was met with a blockade by a few dozen Titan employees, previously laid-off workers, and local Unifor leadership. They parked an SUV in front of the tractor trailer and marched in front of it, waving Unifor flags. Things got tense and the police were called in. The standoff lasted about seven hours, until the company backed down and unloaded the tools.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/titan-tool-1.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=d4hraQ9nkJVKhcjt2FYnTg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/titan-tool-1.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=XiL4xzNB6q0Ylm-Hat2AVw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/titan-tool-1.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=T8w-JeFwSFrcg00wHwW1Bg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/titan-tool-1.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=kaMkmgZfjGBR6w_fZv75HQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/titan-tool-1.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=hJXqpbYyV26_h3PFeC0POw, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/titan-tool-1.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=IeXyljMTcHqBkFeGBmsGaA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Workers at Titan Tool and Die in Windsor block a truck from leaving the Howard Avenue business on Monday, March 31, 2025. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star<p>The union ultimately lost that battle. Titan Tool & Die, an international company that began in a Windsor basement in 1956, went to court seeking an injunction to stop another blockade. The company argued that the equipment belonged to its clients.</p><p>The judge sided with Titan Tool & Die. Ontario Superior Court Justice Jasminka Kalajdzic banned the union, and anyone else, from staging another blockade at Titan.</p><p>Titan did not respond to Postmedia requests for comment.</p><p>Article content</p><p>“They were able to move the tools,” said Nabbout. “That will be remembered by our workers, by the union, and by the community. So, yeah, that was a little bit intense. Emotions were high.”</p><p>Over at the Windsor branch of KB Components, a Swedish car parts maker where Nabbout also represents unionized workers, 100 people have been laid off. The company previously had about 500 employees in Windsor, the home of its first North American operation.</p><p>The company supplies plastic parts for gas-powered and electric vehicles. Demand for electric vehicles was already slumping, with their higher costs compared to gas-powered cars a big reason for that. Trump’s tariffs, which will only make them more expensive, haven’t helped.</p><p>The general manager for KB Components in Windsor did not respond to interview requests from Postmedia.</p><p>The Windsor Census Metropolitan Area has 236,000 working-age people. Falconer said 48,800 of them are in manufacturing.</p><p>Canada exports about $82-billion worth of motor vehicles and auto parts each year, most of which are produced in southern Ontario. Nearly 90 per cent of those exports go to the U.S., according to the Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing. And at least 96 per cent of all Windsor-Essex exports go across the Windsor-Detroit border.</p><p>Article content</p>North America’s busiest border crossing<p>There’s a massive infrastructure system in Windsor built around making trade move. All that trade needs a way over, or under, the Detroit River.</p><p>The Windsor-Detroit border, the busiest crossing in North America, handles one-third of all Canada-U.S. commerce, according to economic development organization Invest WindsorEssex. More than 40,000 commuters, tourists and truck drivers cross it every day, carrying $1 billion worth of trade.</p><p>Windsor has four border crossings, with a fifth soon to open. Freight trains have been running the Detroit River Rail Tunnel since 1910. The Ambassador Bridge, currently the main trade artery between Canada and the U.S., opened in 1929. The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, linking the Windsor and Detroit downtown areas opened the following year. The Port of Windsor, a major cargo and shipping hub created in 1999, receives more than 600 ships every year.</p><p>The $6.4-billion Gordie Howe International Bridge, which has been under construction since 2018, is slated to open this fall. The Canadian government is paying for the new bridge, planning to recoup costs from tolls.</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/detroit.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=Gbk6qKtwXlzIyOyxZ8yfig, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/detroit.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=M8Elb5u-BO_h9TyLKPvkyA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/detroit.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=8COOF_60Bq7_5LOqRKPWYQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/detroit.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=Bl4Ht9XWV3qQ-dEyROcvdg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/detroit.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=FhXFtVP27FXbPIpKwtLJNA, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/detroit.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=tP-wCwSdQgcTpQQiaEqLaA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>A Canada goose flies along the downtown Windsor waterfront with the Detroit skyline in the background. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star<p>The new bridge is long overdue. There’s always traffic congestion at Windsor’s border crossings. The line of tractor-trailers on Huron Church Road, the six-lane approach to the Ambassador Bridge, can stretch for kilometres at any time of day.</p><p>Article content</p><p>At least, it used to. At its peak, in 1999, Windsor attracted 9.1 million yearly visitors, most from the United States. Numbers plummeted to 3.2 million after the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001 and fell again during the COVID pandemic. But visitor numbers had been on an upswing, reaching 5.7 million in 2024 — amounting to $878 million in spending — according to the local tourism bureau.</p><p>Then the tariffs struck.</p><p>“Tariffs on auto, steel, aluminum, etc., are bad for Windsor because they raise the cost of everything,” said Anastakis. “But they really raise the cost of manufacturing to the point of making production at the city’s assembly, parts, tool, mould and die plants much more expensive.”</p>Disrupting the whole system<p>A single piston, the humble workhorse of an internal combustion engine, can tell the tale of the auto industry’s evolution into one conjoined entity.</p><p>Aluminum must be smelted, melted, forged, machined, coated, finished and assembled into an engine, which then goes into an automobile. Those processes all happen in different places, where the respective materials and expertise are concentrated.</p><p>“If the different locations happen to be in different countries, which often they are, that piston has effectively crossed the border four, five, six, seven times,” said Peter Frise, former head of the University of Windsor’s Centre for Automotive Research and Education. That’s one piece. The average car contains roughly 30,000 parts.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Canada makes more cars — about 1.3 million in 2024 — than it can sell domestically. “If we can’t export, the Canadian market can’t absorb everything that we make,” said Frise. “The whole system is designed to work together back and forth across the border. If that is disrupted, it simply must hurt the jobs here.”</p><p>Trump’s desire to rip that system apart and rebuild it all on U.S. soil would take years — if it were even possible. Consider Windsor’s new NextStar Energy Plant, a joint venture between Stellantis and LG Energy Solution to build electric vehicle batteries on the eastern edge of the city. After spending three years and more than $6 billion to build the sprawling factory, the companies are likely not eager to pull up stakes and rebuild in the United States.</p><p>“I agree with every other expert who says the same thing, that taking this apart and putting it back together in a different way in a short time is just not feasible,” Frise said. “Common sense has to return to all of this before the economy is really wrecked.”</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/nextstar3_295980998.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=mBYSuBzykXSIRzgV3DMPRw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/nextstar3_295980998.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=zF5DHArXi5lKzY9qowxjUw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/nextstar3_295980998.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=wxoWAJc8o3MCCTrlyq6aKQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/nextstar3_295980998.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=QgVxfxLm3u-qQGRGPMWyrA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/nextstar3_295980998.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=8hdY6WlXfEesFhWlYiLy0g, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/nextstar3_295980998.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=WoJe3kxG_zHemuJCG7-aWA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>A worker is shown at the NextStar Energy battery plant in Windsor on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star<p>In Windsor, the disruption started before the tariffs did. Trump levelled his first tariffs against Canada on March 4. In early February, Cavalier had already lost $5 million in sales. Hoping to avoid layoffs, the company asked employees to take extended weekends and other voluntary time off.</p><p>Article content</p><p>When work is scarce, feeder and supply companies bid low to secure the projects that are available. “All the prices are dropping because everyone’s looking for work,” Bendig said. “It’s kind of a two-sided problem now,” he said, meaning they are making less profit from the reduced work they are getting.</p><p>Profit margins in the parts sector are already squeezed. “They will not be profitable,” said Anastakis. “Loss of sales, customers, layoffs — in Windsor, tariffs have a ripple effect that ultimately results in layoffs.”</p><p>Even the big guys feel the punches. “In the face of uncertainty, companies do what families do,” said Frise, who is also a professor of mechanical and automotive engineering at the University of Windsor. “If you’re not sure you’re going to have a job next year, you’re not going to go out and buy a new car today. So, you tend to freeze investments and freeze big spending projects.”</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/stellantis.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=PjweBnsAlDR2eB1yvfliMg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/stellantis.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=4Cot8R6IejNeLPQUQ6hCZQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/stellantis.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=T7ZioeOWCGkaTxVdX16FFg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/stellantis.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=ZwyiD_ONLUe1BOFy5GSnsw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/stellantis.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=bXJ03Mg-eMy0RnNsB64SGQ, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/stellantis.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=ZqWLdSQV_inLbNVcVlt6yQ" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Employees at the Windsor Assembly Plant for the 2016 launch of the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid. Stellantis shut the plant down for two weeks in April, citing tariffs. Photo by Courtesy Stellantis<p>Windsor Assembly Plant, which produces the Chrysler Pacifica, Grand Caravan, and Dodge Charger, shut down for two weeks in April. Stellantis, Chrysler’s parent company headquartered in the Netherlands (the company owns multiple vehicle brands including Jeep, Chrysler and Dodge), said tariffs were a “deciding factor.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>Stellantis planned to launch a third shift at Windsor Assembly Plant and even conducted interviews to staff the line. But the company revealed in May those plans are on hold.</p><p>On May 22, Stellantis also announced it would halt its made-in-Windsor Dodge Daytona EV, at least for the 2026 model year. Sales of the car have been slow, but the company said it is postponing production to “assess the effects of U.S. tariff policies.”</p><p>The Stellantis factory, normally a two-shift operation, dropped to one shift through most of June. That means about 2,000 people not going to work. LouAnn Gosselin, spokesperson for Stellantis in Canada, said the downtime was also related to a move from the 2025 production model year to 2026. “We will continue to monitor the situation,” she said.</p><p>Unifor’s Nabbout said even temporary shutdowns at the auto plant cause instant fallout. “When Windsor Assembly goes down, all the feeder plants are impacted immediately,” he said. Windsor Assembly Plant has five main local feeder plants, which employ about 1,300 people. Another five plants in the U.S., with about 900 workers, are also impacted when assembly shuts down. There have been temporary layoffs, Nabbout said.</p><p>Article content</p><p>His union local has 18 collective agreements expiring this year. Tariffs will complicate negotiations. “Every employer, when you go to the bargaining table, they bring tariffs as being the main source of the stress point in the financials,” he said.</p><p>Many companies in Windsor are on the brink, with empty shop floors and idle machines. Most don’t want to talk about it. Perhaps they don’t want their customers to know. Or their employees.</p><p>Or maybe they fear publicly criticizing the U.S. government, then running into a MAGA officer at U.S. Customs.</p><p>Being barred from entering Michigan would be life-altering for thousands of people in Essex County, the collection of municipalities that surrounds Windsor. Anti-American boycotts? That’s not possible or desirable for many Windsorites.</p>Centuries on the frontline with America<p>Separated from Michigan by the mile-wide Detroit River, Windsor is closer to downtown Detroit than any American suburb. The best view of Detroit’s skyline is from Windsor’s waterfront.</p><p>Trump’s antagonism tears at a cherished social and cultural fabric. Windsor and Detroit are bound in a finger lace so unique that former governor general Michaëlle Jean is making a documentary about it.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/detroit-river.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=60aeyp-0FBT9QtWT2Cf79Q, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/detroit-river.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=eWgRTTEOwDN6BaqKqcHx5w, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/detroit-river.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=m8kMwGI4_OJc-uT3kWtQUA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/detroit-river.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=CM3569583ZsSsn47h_KgfA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/detroit-river.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=UT7BFYrErB_YmhNyTb2tng, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/detroit-river.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=eQWFS9o83VD0KwTGUAzJCw" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Only the mile-wide Detroit River separates downtown Windsor, Ont., left, and Detroit, Mich. The ties between the residents of both cities go beyond geography. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star<p>Windsor has sat on the front lines of tension with the United States since before the War of 1812, the only war ever fought on Canadian soil. The settlement of Sandwich, now part of Windsor, was the site of the first American incursion into Upper Canada.</p><p>In the days of abolitionism, Windsor was a key terminal on the Underground Railroad. For many of the roughly 40,000 Black slaves who fled America in search of freedom, the first stop in Canada was the Sandwich First Baptist Church.</p><p>During Prohibition, when rum-running was the region’s second largest industry behind auto manufacturing, bootleggers dodged federal agents while speeding across cracking ice in trucks overloaded with Canadian booze.</p><p>Based on a line from Journey’s rock anthem Don’t Stop Believin’ and a geographic peculiarity — Windsor is the only Canadian city south of the U.S. border — some Windsorites lovingly call their home South Detroit.</p><p>When the Detroit Grand Prix speeds through the streets of the Motor City every June, the roar of the engines rumbles through Windsor neighbourhoods. The annual Detroit Free Press Marathon runs partly through Windsor.</p><p>Windsorites’ kids play Little League baseball and take dance lessons in Detroit. Birthdays are celebrated in bars along Detroit’s bustling Woodward Avenue or its historic Corktown neighbourhood.</p><p>Article content</p><p>And it is Windsorites who ride the euphoric highs and painful lows of Detroit’s sports teams. They join the thousands of fans who call in sick or book a vacation day every April for the Detroit Tigers’ home opener. The Tigers host an annual Canadian appreciation day at Comerica Park.</p><p>Such connections, born from geography, are unbreakable. Windsor’s economy was similarly forged through its location on a map. But repeated attacks have shown its vulnerability.</p>Lessons from history<p>Despite various efforts over the years to diversify, Windsor has always been predominantly an auto and manufacturing town. “Most of the Windsor area really relies on the automotive sector,” said Wu. “There’s no other business as prominent here in Windsor, unfortunately.”</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ford-Assembly-Line1950.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=HOx2QIFUgurf8thC9EJGrg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ford-Assembly-Line1950.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=_7UrkZer8ZpQgQIy2Ozb4Q, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ford-Assembly-Line1950.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=Jri6gvps9lVnQX-owb1SkQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ford-Assembly-Line1950.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=3fRgM_sVHg1HA7gbWTTtQw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ford-Assembly-Line1950.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=51t_0HO6GfHDovNOYAFNqA, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ford-Assembly-Line1950.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zk-qDtr7EG8jDhrQPE8mWg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>A Ford Motor Company assembly line in 1950. Photo by Files /Windsor Star<p>It’s been that way since 1904. Windsor helped pioneer the auto industry — in another time of tariffs.</p><p>Henry Ford, who founded the Ford Motor Company in Detroit on June 16, 1903, was looking for a way around levies against countries outside the British Empire. Canadian Gordon McGregor, who ran a failing wagon-making outfit called Walkerville Wagon Works, handed it to him.</p><p>McGregor raised $125,000 in capital and promised Ford Motor Company 51 per cent of the shares. Henry Ford signed an agreement for McGregor to produce the Model C, handing over the plans and patents.</p><p>Article content</p><p>On Aug. 17, 1904, the Ford Motor Company of Canada was founded in Walkerville, now a destination for foodies and fashionistas in central Windsor. The Model C started rolling out of the former wagon factory in September 1904. They made 117 Canadian Fords that year. The first overseas shipments went to Calcutta, India.</p><p>A few years later, the booming business moved to a larger facility in a section of current-day Windsor still known as Ford City. The plant is now shuttered, but Ford still employs about 1,800 people in Windsor at the Essex Engine Plant. A rare bright spot in the current tariff war, the plant remains at full production.</p><p>McGregor’s early deal with Ford was the start of an integrated cross-border system that both countries still depend on. In 1904, there was a 35 per cent tariff on U.S. cars entering countries within the British Empire. But individual parts carried lower duties. So, McGregor imported U.S. parts and assembled them in Canada.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Windsor-1974.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=WJ9vU5-z6t3AgDdWHKgCQw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Windsor-1974.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=FaSCV9r18DyB-jr6uzYXJw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Windsor-1974.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=m1jBGUMP8Hxzq-8xMcachQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Windsor-1974.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=aBAAWfcsckX1izlMdLdV5g, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Windsor-1974.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=wX-v642d9z4yMKTp9-QpmA, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Windsor-1974.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=P0Vc36ycHTD-eXs5NLlPmg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>In June 1974, an employee works the line at the Windsor Assembly Plant. Built in 1928, it is Chrysler Canada’s oldest working plant. Photo by Files /Windsor Star<p>Other companies quickly saw the advantages. Multiple now-defunct car and truck companies opened early in Windsor’s automotive history, including Studebaker and Packard Motor Company.</p><p>As the car companies rolled in, so did the secondary and tertiary industries, making Windsor a tool, die and mould-making mecca.</p><p>Article content</p><p>“The second Industrial Revolution, which the auto industry is so famous for — the moving assembly line, mass manufacturing, mass consumption — all that stuff associated with Henry Ford and Fordism really took root in Windsor,” said Anastakis.</p><p>The Chrysler Corporation of Canada was incorporated in Windsor on June 17, 1925, only 11 days after the Chrysler Corporation was founded in Detroit. It rose from the ruins of the Chalmers Motor Company and Maxwell Motor Corporation, which had both set up Windsor shops in 1916.</p><p>In 1925, Chrysler Canada produced 4,500 cars. Its 280,000-square-foot factory on what was then the outskirts of Windsor became the core of Windsor Assembly Plant. Built in 1928, it is the company’s oldest plant still in operation.</p><p>The plant is a legacy for many Windsor families, whose members have built cars, lives and livelihoods working at the plant for every generation since it opened. About 4,500 people currently work there.</p><p>Frank Sinatra drove his new Chrysler Imperial off the Windsor assembly line in 1980. It was the Special Edition, in shimmering “glacier blue crystal,” to match his oceanic eyes. Legend has it that the car and $1 were all Ol’ Blue Eyes wanted from Chrysler boss Lee Iacocca, a close friend, to endorse the company.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Production on the first modern minivan began there in 1983. The minivan revolutionized the auto industry and became another symbol of Windsor’s significance in the manufacturing world.</p><p>General Motors crossed the border in 1919 to set up a branch of its Fisher Body Company. But GM’s last Windsor factory, the Kildare Road transmission plant, closed in 2010, a casualty of the Great Recession.</p>Ground zero<p>In Windsor, the tough times always seem tougher. When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down factories, and a semiconductor shortage simultaneously halted production on millions of vehicles, Windsor’s unemployment rate was 16.6 per cent — the highest in Canada.</p><p>“During the recessions, we always have the highest unemployment,” said Wu. “Windsor has always been that place.”</p><p>During the Great Depression, Canada’s unemployment rate surged past 30 per cent. In Windsor, unemployment climbed as high as 50 per cent.</p><p>It’s worth noting that American tariffs helped accelerate the Great Depression. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was signed into law in 1930, drastically raising tariffs to protect American farmers and manufacturers. It triggered a trade war.</p><p>Fifty years later, the lessons from that time were recalled by former U.S. president Ronald Reagan. “Millions of American jobs are tied to imports,” he said during a 1986 radio address on free trade.</p><p>Article content</p><p>During the recessions, we always have the highest unemployment. Windsor has always been that place</p><p>Colby Wu</p><p>“The way to a better life is to open markets now closed, improve trading conditions, and to expand our exports. We learned that lesson half a century ago when we tried to balance the trade deficit by erecting a tariff wall around the United States. The Smoot-Hawley tariffs ignited an international trade war and helped sink our country into the Great Depression.”</p><p>The GOP take on tariffs has significantly shifted since the Reagan era. “‘Tariff’ is the most beautiful word in the dictionary,” Trump has repeated.</p><p>When the Great Recession came along in 2007, triggered primarily by the collapse of the U.S. housing market, Windsor was bludgeoned again. Car sales plummeted. The Big Three, Detroit’s iconic car brands, were crumbling.</p><p>Windsor was the epicentre of the fallout in Canada. “The job losses were high,” said Eddie Francis, Windsor’s mayor at the time. “The mood was as dark as it could be. There was so much uncertainty and anxiety.”</p><p>Manufacturing plants in Windsor closed. GM pulled up stakes, ending a 90-year legacy and killing 1,400 jobs. Even for Windsor, the job losses were shocking. The Canadian unemployment rate around that period peaked at 8.7 per cent. In Windsor, it was 15.4 per cent.</p><p>Article content</p><p><p>Related Stories</p><p> Automakers scramble for solutions in midst of trade war </p> <p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/tariffs1_295321524.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=webp&sig=aQRG9hFlTarEOjRMJkjTKw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/tariffs1_295321524.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=jpg&sig=UliIEHivonhk0Y3-AesHtw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/tariffs1_295321524.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=webp&sig=u2QhgCA-BE0ZR6RhefWN3g, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/tariffs1_295321524.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=jpg&sig=0mw8x_aKU6OKzyTPUR97Wg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/tariffs1_295321524.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=116&type=webp&sig=Ox9tYwWCOmN6O5WuzufrVg, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/tariffs1_295321524.jpg?quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=1hNqxa-HOJn8IlV6Fpiv_g" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p> </p> <p> What are automakers doing to mitigate tariffs? </p> <p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/wap2_295704628.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=webp&sig=z8k0PHSL9iFv9Rvv4_V9cg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/wap2_295704628.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=jpg&sig=8Al_aNcImXuijNJx5m3jxw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/wap2_295704628.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=webp&sig=kvVuy_5nmA3SngHoebMcdg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/wap2_295704628.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=jpg&sig=yr0pSC1Z9TxkuikTgQCcUw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/wap2_295704628.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=116&type=webp&sig=AnGYjAd1vDZXOFBDXdendw, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/wap2_295704628.jpg?quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=fDGwwCdohtvKUDb0jwKG8Q" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p> </p> <p> Amid U.S. trade war, Windsor jobless rate hits pandemic levels </p> <p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/0328-biz-wire-cities_294000624.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=webp&sig=bpOLhGYFocyFmRdjK4Bb4g, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/0328-biz-wire-cities_294000624.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=jpg&sig=8uOqLaVZmH1OBsC-NvdFxQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/0328-biz-wire-cities_294000624.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=webp&sig=dWjDciwluSClUKeTZvLGew, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/0328-biz-wire-cities_294000624.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=jpg&sig=0YFe5IuMv8uZEdPfa0TMUw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/0328-biz-wire-cities_294000624.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=116&type=webp&sig=iD0JcRq63-O0SQbI7XIR0g, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/0328-biz-wire-cities_294000624.jpg?quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=aAM4uAkPgLA5EILpuDO5Ng" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p> </p> </p><p>“We’re talking about automotive companies that were on the brink,” Francis recently told Postmedia. “They were looking for a lifeline. And there was actual debate as to whether or not governments would step in.”</p><p>Francis sent letters to then-prime minister Stephen Harper and Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, pointing out the dire need for financial aid for the Canadian auto industry.</p><p>“It basically said stop with this political stuff because if you guys don’t act, Windsor is dead,” recalled Francis. “It was that clear. I said, our city will die.”</p><p>The mere mention of those years makes Wu squirm. His family’s Stratus Plastics company has scratched and clawed its way back too many times. Trump’s tariffs mean another redo.</p><p>“Essentially, all that work for the past 20 years to today, I’m starting back at zero,” Wu said.</p><p>“It’s definitely a very scary time. 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Why Gen Zs are freezing their eggs and sharing their stories<p>Egg freezing is increasingly being seen as a way to align peak fertility years with life aspirations: To have it all</p><p><p>Author of the article:</p> Devika Desai </p><p>Published Jul 02, 2025 • Last updated Jul 03, 2025 • 19 minute read</p><p> <p><svg><mask></mask><g></g></svg></p> <p>Join the conversation <vf-conversations-count></vf-conversations-count></p> <p><p><p><p>You can save this article by registering for free here. 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Activate your Online Access Now</p></footer></p></p><p>Article content</p><p>“Shania, you don’t seem like you would have kids early,” Bhopa recalls her sister saying. “But I know you’ve always wanted to be a mom. Have you ever given any consideration as to what your plan looks like?”</p><p><p><p><img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/newsletters/icon-longStory.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Long Story</p><p>Curated longreads and features from top journalists across Canada, delivered Saturdays.</p></p><p><form><p>There was an error, please provide a valid email address.</p>Sign Up</form><p>By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.</p><p>Thanks for signing up!</p><p>A welcome email is on its way. If you don"t see it, please check your junk folder.</p><p>The next issue of Long Story will soon be in your inbox.</p><p>We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again</p><p>Interested in more newsletters? Browse here.</p></p></p><p>Article content</p><p>“No,” Bhopa replied.</p><p>Her sister asked a new question. “Well, have you thought about freezing your eggs?”</p><p>The question caught Bhopa by surprise. She had heard of egg freezing before — overhearing conversations between her sister and her friends — but until that moment had never talked about it or thought of it as a family planning or fertility option. She had always assumed egg freezing was a last resort for those who had already tried and failed to have a child by traditional means.</p><p>“Why would I be proactive when it’s a reactive procedure?” she recalled thinking. Her sister, however, was persistent and so Bhopa decided to investigate the topic.</p><p>As an academic accustomed to research, she dove deep. She read every paper she could find, and by the end of it she was convinced.</p><p>“It was kind of like just a really logical decision,” she said. “I researched, statistically, at age 35 the egg quality and count, and the risk of abnormalities there, and if that’s the age I perceive my career starting to stabilize, then I should probably freeze my eggs.”</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-shania-bhopa.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=zenp0cLKAMwvx58BCnfR2Q, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-shania-bhopa.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=hDzUfvn5xqbS8PUjD7JtUQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-shania-bhopa.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=2DPTxA8ZqxdBBCVTEzDQOg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-shania-bhopa.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=nnMqgaGyLIhQhYk0YJ7JDQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-shania-bhopa.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=Gs8f8o1qK0kAfI3ghLYcYg, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-shania-bhopa.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=SjnnftYeIeJfgL_Khc_tYQ" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>she decided to freeze her eggs at 25. She did so, she says, to break down the stigma around women’s health and fertility. Photo by Shania Bhopa<p>Bhopa’s story is an unusual one and for good reason: There aren’t a lot of stories told publicly of women in their early 20s who have considered or decided to freeze their eggs as a way to preserve their fertility down the road.</p><p>Encouraged by her sister and partner, Bhopa, a well-established influencer with over 109,000 followers on Instagram and even more on TikTok, vlogged her egg freezing journey online and became a viral sensation for her story, hailed as the “girl who decided to freeze her eggs at 25.”</p><p>Along with her own vlogs, she has hosted Q&As, interviews with experts and inspirational reels meant to shed light on the process and educate her followers on the concept.</p><p>Looking back, Bhopa is surprised that she and her friends, many of whom are in medicine and academia, had never thought to talk about egg freezing before.</p><p>“We all have such long roads ahead of us,” she said. “In retrospect, I’m like, ‘Oh, I can’t believe none of us were talking about it.”</p><p>Egg freezing — known medically as oocyte preservation — has been in the works since the 1980s, primarily as a last resort for those undergoing major surgeries or with serious medical illnesses. Rarely was it considered as a family planning alternative. The latter, better known as social egg freezing, became more mainstream after the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) deemed the procedure “non-experimental” in 2012.</p><p>Article content</p><p>“It definitely raised the awareness that egg freezing is now commercially available,” said Dr. Ari Baratz, one of Canada’s leading fertility experts and part of the medical team at the Create Fertility Centre in Toronto. “That really sparked demand.”</p><p>In the years since, it has increasingly become an option in family planning. This has forced a re-examination of “fertility” — what that means and how it is discussed among individuals and couples, and patients and their doctors.</p><p>I was terrified to freeze my eggs because of all the unknowns and questions and shame and insert my excuse.</p><p>Missy Modell</p><p>For those with ovaries, it has meant being able to “realize their reproductive autonomy” and providing a sense of agency in one’s own reproductive aging — in other words, being liberated from their biological clocks. For couples, both heterosexual and those within in the LGBTQ+ community, it has meant being able to be more strategic about parenthood in terms of timing or priorities such as careers or financial stability or even relationship stability.</p><p>It’s a conversation of the modern age, bolstered by lifestyle, career and societal changes. As recently as 2022, social media platforms saw a surge of videos, vlogs and posts shared on the topic, by doctors looking to educate, and by people who have gone through the process and wanted to share their experiences.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Reproductive rights were hotly contested during the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Donald Trump made headlines when he proposed expanding access to invitro fertilization (IVF) treatments by having them paid for either by government or by insurance companies, a move criticized by some conservative groups for the practice of discarding unused embryos after a successful live birth via IVF.</p><p>The U.S. president issued an executive order in February to expand IVF access, although it’s unclear how long it could take to see changes to out-of-pocket costs.</p><p>Any conversation about reproductive rights comes with ethical quandaries, and in the case of egg freezing, it’s the thorny matter of “biological insurance.” What level of autonomy does it truly offer those considering it?</p><p>“I don’t think we’re completely going to put the brakes on fertility,” Baratz said, adding that egg freezing was always meant to be viewed as a way to “augment the ability to have a baby or even a larger family.”</p>The ‘stigma’<p>Bhopa is no stranger to the spotlight. As a child, she acted in television shows and currently teaches a curriculum on artificial intelligence. “I always did public stuff,” she said.</p><p>Her persona on social media, before posting about her egg freezing, was “more guarded,” she said. “This is the place where I have to be professional.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>If it hadn’t been for her sister and her boyfriend encouraging her, Bhopa said she wouldn’t have considered sharing her egg-freezing story on a public platform.</p><p>Bhopa recalled her sister telling her: “You know, when I was your age, I just wish I had someone to look up to, to even start this conversation.”</p><p>Her boyfriend, also a physician, had stressed that being vocal about her journey would be “pushing so many barriers for women.”</p><p>“For example,” Bhopa adds, “talking about not having kids right after you get married or not having to get married right after you’ve done school, and just pushing the gender norms that are often circulated.”</p><p>She was initially reluctant — “I was very, very, very hesitant to share this journey online,” Bhopa explained in a YouTube video. “It’s a very intimate thing.” But she decided to share her journey to encourage more open conversations around fertility and family planning and postponing pregnancy.</p><p>“I think that fertility, women’s health and planning for a family can be quite taboo for very many people and many cultures worldwide,” she continued. “And breaking down that stigma a little bit and opening up the conversation about fertility … and taking control and being empowered about making the plans necessary, to allow you to feel comfortable about your decisions.”</p><p>Article content</p><p> <p></p> <p><svg><g><g><g></g></g></g></svg></p><p>View this post on Instagram</p> <p></p><p></p><p></p> <p></p><p>A post shared by Missy Modell (@missymodell)</p></p><p>It was the same stigma and lack of public conversation that kept Missy Modell, an American comedian, influencer and businesswoman from deciding to go through egg freezing until her late 30s.</p><p>“The reason I waited so long was because I didn’t see anyone captured in this way … like, the day-to-day,” she said. “I run a company. I have to be high functioning. I was also terrified of doing that to myself. What are the hormones going to do to me?”</p><p>Like Bhopa, Modell decided to publicly vlog her journey to push back against the social stigma and take control of the conversation.</p><p>“I was terrified to freeze my eggs because of all the unknowns and questions and shame and insert my excuse,” she posted to her stories on Instagram on the first day of her egg-freezing journey. “I wanted to pull back the curtain and hope that if some people were really on the fence for reasons that had nothing to do with the outcome … I wanted to help people feel comfortable with it.”</p><p>The stigma, while much less palpable than it might have been five or 10 years ago, “is not completely smashed,” Baratz said. “Obviously, it is still a personal issue.”</p><p>In 2018, U.K. researchers interviewed 31 women who had undergone egg freezing to better understand their experiences. “Few women perceived freezing as involving physical risks,” the researchers wrote. “However, many participants reported the process of egg freezing as emotionally challenging, primarily linked to feelings of isolation and stigma due to their single status.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>A 2021 Canadian study yielded similar results. It found that 89 per cent of the 224 women who took part said they chose to freeze their eggs because they were single and had not yet found a partner.</p><p>By the time social egg freezing arrived on the scene, a woman was statistically more likely to have her first child by the age of 28, according to Statistics Canada — a noticeable jump from the 1970s, when a woman would typically have her first child by the age of 24.</p><p>However, unlike men, who remain fertile long into their senior years, a woman’s fertility peaks between her teen years and late 20s, and is likely to decline after age 30, presenting a conundrum for those looking to balance their professional lives with their desire for parenthood.</p><p>For those looking to further their careers without the fear of running out the biological clock, social egg freezing became an attractive opportunity to have it all. Initially, women, mostly in their late 30s and 40s, attended consultations, information sessions and “egg-freezing cocktail parties” hosted by fertility clinics wanting to rebrand egg freezing as something positive, rather than a bleak last resort.</p><p>“Originally, it started as a way for the older demographic of people with ovaries to hold on to their fertility,” said Carolynn Dube, the executive director for Fertility Matters Canada. “And people still use it for that reason now, but we’re seeing a younger group of people considering it for future use. It’s like an insurance plan.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>Jeanette Chen, 41, who works in human resources, said she first considered freezing her eggs a decade ago, around the time of a big breakup.</p><p>The breakup, she said, played a part, but her decision to pursue egg freezing was largely motivated by age. Chen was turning 28 and getting older meant becoming more conscious of “social conventions” around marriage and motherhood, as well as thinking about her fertility aging, she said.</p><p>However, the newness of the idea and lack of access around it curtailed her understanding of what egg freezing really meant. “I knew this idea of egg freezing existed, conceptually what it was like and what it was intended for,” she said of her conversations with friends back then. “Some of my friends might say, ‘Oh, I’m thinking about egg freezing,’ but that’s it. It’s like a blanket statement.”</p><p>By the time she finally decided to go ahead with the process at 38, the scene had shifted substantially, she said. Several of her friends had frozen their eggs, either as part of an IVF treatment or otherwise. “I do think it’s a bit better now because people are more open about it,” Chen added.</p><p>Access to information, both socially and regionally, can play a big role in an individual’s understanding and willingness to talk openly about fertility, Dube explained. For big urban centres such as Toronto and Montreal, the conversation might be more prominent than in less-populated regions, where access to fertility specialists and clinics may not be as easy.</p><p>Article content</p><p>“It’s still a relatively new process in a lot of parts of the country outside of these bigger cities,” Dube explained. “I think just having access to the knowledge and experts geographically is one piece.”</p><p>Dube notes the surge in conversations about egg freezing online, especially among young professionals. “But openly sharing it, especially in a place where an employer or a potential employer could find you, is problematic,” she said. “Because it opens you up to someone saying, ‘Oh, she’s thinking about having children someday,’ and you’re internally thinking about how that might impact your growth at the company.”</p><p>It’s an investment like any other and I’m really empowered by it.</p><p>Shania Bhopa</p><p>Bhopa acknowledged that much of her own hesitation to share her story came from the same place. “I’m going to be an academic and have students and colleagues and principal investigators for grants that could potentially see this,” she said.</p><p>Even among friends and acquaintances, the subject isn’t exactly a trending topic. Antoinette Twiver said she learned about egg freezing in university while watching an episode of The Mindy Project, a popular sitcom on the life of a lovelorn gynecologist. She didn’t know how many of her own friends had considered or had gone through the process until she made the decision to freeze her own eggs at age 29, in 2023.</p><p>Article content</p><p>She was “surprised” when she learned a number of friends “have been going through this process as well and maybe not sharing it.”</p><p>Twiver, who has a following of over 42,000 on TikTok, shared her experience on her TikTok to help others learn more about the process — “if this video helps even one person learn a little bit about the process then it would be worth it,” she said.</p><p>“I do think that it is something that is tiptoed around a bit,” Chen said. “It’s a hard topic for people to initiate because people aren’t sure about the circumstances of the other people.”</p>The medical side of egg freezing<p>For close to 20 years, Dr. Sony Sierra has worked in the medical field as a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist. The physician is deputy medical director with TRIO fertility, a chain of fertility clinics in the Greater Toronto Area that receives patients for a range of fertility issues.</p><p>She has seen the conversation around egg freezing and preserving fertility change dramatically in the years since the ASRM ruling to deem the procedure as non-experimental.</p><p>“Ten years ago, I barely did egg-freezing cases,” she said. “And now it’s hugely busy, our egg-freezing program. And I think a lot of it comes from the knowledge of it being an option.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>Before the ASRM 2012 decision, doctors and experts largely viewed the procedure as reactive rather than proactive, mostly suggested in cases of infertility or a serious illness or major surgery that could impact a person’s fertility.</p><p>Since the ruling, the number of cases around the country has soared — from 94 in 2013 to more than 1,500 in 2022, according to CARTR, a Canadian database that tracks fertility procedures performed in Canada.</p><p>Ten years ago, less than two per cent of patients who visited Sierra’s clinic came to consult or pursue egg freezing. By 2022, 15 per cent of patients visiting TRIO planned to pursue egg freezing, prompting the team to open EVOLVE, Canada’s first egg-freezing clinic, in March 2023.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-evolve-1.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=BNlCqU6qPBtcfC2y3vjoAA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-evolve-1.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=8Ao7CnXO1Ho5H_Wh9FFJvw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-evolve-1.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=R-n5lKvIkLrV-jXtKib-Vw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-evolve-1.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=t6LyDRXzYJLVOwvid6OTLg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-evolve-1.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=-5sJ3i0t265erm86KyVCVA, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-evolve-1.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=WqBJbNB7-lyHejJR_7MvGA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>The storage tanks at EVOLVE egg freezing clinic in downtown Toronto that stores frozen human eggs. Photo by EVOLVE<p>As part of the process, a woman injects herself daily, for two weeks, in the belly or upper thighs with hormonal drugs to stimulate her ovaries to produce around 10 to 15 mature eggs. The more eggs to freeze, the more likely one of those eggs, once thawed, will be fertilized with sperm and lead to a pregnancy.</p><p>Once the optimal size and number of eggs has been generated, the eggs are retrieved from the ovaries via an ultrasound-guided needle, flash-frozen and stored in tanks of liquid nitrogen.</p><p>Article content</p><p>“We (get) about 200 inquiries a month,” Sierra said. “And that’s just people picking up the phone or emailing through the website. That doesn’t include physician referrals that come from doctors and gynecologists out there in the field.”</p><p>Opening up a separate clinic, she explained, allowed the team to be more proactive in offering support to people reluctant to come to a typical fertility lab, “where there are married couples who are very stressed out trying to conceive,” Sierra explained. “A waiting room in a fertility clinic, it’s a different environment.”</p>Reproductive awareness<p>Fertility education is a relatively new concept. As recently as 2017, the term “fertility awareness” was introduced as a definition in the International Glossary on Infertility and Fertility Care.</p><p>The fertility conversation, Baratz explained, has long focused around the don’ts rather than the dos. “A lot of sexual health education is based around infection prevention and healthy lifestyle, but also avoiding unwanted pregnancy. … We’ve forgotten how to turn that message off.”</p><p>Medical providers have become more aware of the proactive role they have to play in discussions with patients, he said, initiating conversations about reproductive health and asking questions such as, “Have you thought about how you’re going to approach building your family?”</p><p>Article content</p><p>Medical professionals are increasingly being invited to universities and schools to talk to younger people about their reproductive health and to heighten awareness around fertility. And more than 50 private fertility clinics have popped up across the country providing resources to individuals looking for fertility consultations.</p><p>The conversations about egg freezing, however, have an added layer of complexity. Not only are there the details of the process — the costs, the side-effects of hormone treatment, the risks — decisions must be made on how the eggs will be used and stored.</p><p>Baratz said that means asking a patient if they have a plan for their eggs: Do they plan to use the eggs as a first or last resort when trying to have a child? Are they able to afford the cost of yearly storage? How many children do they plan to have, with or without the eggs? Have they considered other alternatives to fertility planning?</p><p>“In a responsible consultation, egg freezing is just a handle to discuss the full spectrum of what’s available.”</p><p>It also means addressing the popular perception of egg freezing as biological insurance — “that’s part of informed consent,” Baratz added.</p>Maybe, baby<p>Freezing your eggs, experts stress, does not guarantee the birth of a child. The overall success rate of egg freezing can depend on any number of factors, such as a person’s age and the number and quality of eggs retrieved. It’s also possible for eggs to not survive the thawing process or not be successfully fertilized by sperm.</p><p>Article content</p><p>At EVOLVE, the rule of thumb is, the more, the better. “For example, individuals aged 30 to 34 have an 80 per cent chance or higher of a live birth later. In contrast, freezing between two and eight eggs results in a 20 to 52 per cent chance of a live birth,” the clinic explains on its website.</p><p>“At the same time, with increasing age, research shows it may take more frozen eggs to achieve a successful pregnancy”.</p><p>The American Society of Reproductive Medicine issued the same caution when announcing their decision to drop the “experimental” label — that the procedure is not a guarantee for having a baby.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-antoinette-twiver.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=18kYGOXaHhL3wqyD8bI9xw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-antoinette-twiver.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=Kis78VBZvwTnRy3kGY-7Iw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-antoinette-twiver.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=NPqGJLHmhs9vmaxFFV03IA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-antoinette-twiver.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=jPVrCAJVz8NamRjVg5B-EA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-antoinette-twiver.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=SemhP_EJqVdVMJYwwgiQaQ, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/baby-egg-freezing-motherhood-millennial-gen-z-parenthood-pregnancy-antoinette-twiver.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=usnv1VGWiMUGiWDi6NHNaA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Antoinette Twiver, then 29, snaps a selfie with her first hormone shot for egg freezing. She says if she wasn’t “lucky to be able to tap into” her company’s health insurance, the cost of her procedure would have been about $12,000. Photo by Antoinette Twiver<p>“We think we should proceed cautiously in using this as an elective technique, especially in older patients,” stated Dr. Eric Widra, chairman of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology practice committee in 2012.</p><p>“There is an inherent conflict between the desire to freeze eggs and the need to freeze eggs. Freezing eggs for the future sounds like a good insurance policy but may not be an insurance policy that needs to be cashed in,” he stated.</p><p>Baratz chooses his words carefully when describing the risks and benefits of the procedure. “It can be referred to as biological insurance with big quotes around it, because that may not solve the story,” he said. “What we always tell you as part of the consent process is that you’re doing this as part of your fertility journey.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>And, compared to other procedures, which may involve greater medical risks, egg freezing is a relatively safe procedure, Baratz added.</p><p>“So, the downside is very minimal, other than the cost of the procedure … But if they’re in the right demographic where it’s feasible, it’s a great option.”</p>Insurance and the costs of egg freezing<p>For many, being able to afford the cost of freezing eggs is where the barrier to access comes in.</p><p>Below Bhopa’s TikTok video — titled, “4 takeaways after freezing my eggs at 25” — the most common question asked was about the cost.</p><p>“How much did this cost? I’m thinking of doing this?” one user asked.</p><p>“What’s the cost?” asked Leslie&Mj.</p><p>“How much was it? Does your insurance cover it?” a TikTok user who goes by Kathleen posted.</p><p>In a separate video, Bhopa broke down the costs of her egg freezing process. “Eighty per cent of my medication was covered by insurance,” she explained in the video, “but the total cost without insurance would have been $4,000.”</p><p>“My procedure was not covered by insurance, but for a lot of people it is,” she said, adding that the cost for her egg retrieval came to $9,750, which included the fees for storing the eggs for five years — $500 per year, according to Bhopa, who displayed her invoices in the background of the video as she detailed the costs of the process.</p><p>Article content</p><p>“So, the actual cost of the procedure alone, including anesthetic and everything like that, is $7,000.”</p><p>Bhopa went on to explain that she was able to afford it by getting a second job that same year and “saving up extremely well.”</p><p>“It’s an investment like any other and I’m really empowered by it,” she added.</p><p>But she acknowledged that without insurance covering the cost of medication, she would not have been able to afford the service. “That was my main driver,” she said in an interview with Postmedia.</p><p>Likewise, Twiver said she was “lucky to be able to tap into” her company’s health insurance benefits, which includes egg freezing.</p><p>Without insurance, Twiver said the entire cost would have come to $12,000, for the procedure and medication. If insurance wasn’t available, Twiver said she would have relied on support from her family, but “having access via coverage obviously made the decision much easier.”</p><p>My initial reaction was just pure shock. I was highly disappointed, of course. And then anger ... Up to $35,000 a year?</p><p>Sehrish Qureshi</p><p>In the past decade, Canadian and U.S. companies, mostly in banking and tech, have added fertility benefits to their employees’ insurance coverage.</p><p>Some Canadian banks now offer up to $60,000 in fertility treatments to be accessed over a lifetime, according to a report by Fertility Matters Canada. The Bank of Montreal increased the lifetime maximum for fertility drugs to $20,000 and reimburses employees $20,000 each in fertility treatment and surrogacy expenses. RBC and TD offer similar coverage plans with $20,000 for fertility treatments and medication, up to a lifetime maximum of $60,000, while CIBC recently began covering $15,000 for treatment drugs, to a lifetime maximum of $30,000. Scotiabank offers $10,000 in coverage for fertility treatment in addition to medication, and $10,000 for surrogacy expenses, for a maximum lifetime benefit of $30,000.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Big technology companies such as Google, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft are leading the way in offering fertility coverage to their employees. Snap is among the most generous, with workers eligible for up to $65,000 in fertility and adoption coverage through Carrot Fertility, and up to $130,000 toward surrogacy expenses.</p><p>On the one hand, these company policies can be a big plus for employees interested in the service who fear emptying their bank accounts. And it can be a stress-reliever for women looking to balance their careers with future parenthood.</p><p>“If the cost of the investment is no longer an element to be taken into consideration, even women who are less worried about finding a partner ‘in time’ may become interested in banking, which will lower the average age and thus raise the quality of the banked eggs,” Heidi Mertes, an associate professor in medical ethics at Ghent University, wrote in a 2015 paper.</p><p>On the other hand, it can promote a bias around egg freezing as the golden ticket out of the claws of the biological clock and encourage women, sometimes “against their better judgment” to defer parenthood in lieu of a better professional reputation, Mertes wrote.</p><p>For those without the option of insurance, or a big enough bank account, costs remain a major barrier.</p><p>Article content</p><p>“My initial reaction was just pure shock,” Sehrish Qureshi, 31, said of her reaction when she researched the costs of egg freezing for herself. “I was highly disappointed, of course. And then anger … I’m not expecting it to be affordable, because it’s a luxury service, but up to $35,000 a year? That’s definitely not what I was expecting.”</p><p><p>Related Stories</p><p> Government cannot spend its way out of the fertility crisis </p> <p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-82548787.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=webp&sig=X3WUCpMQ8QMGOP_ZaHxhBQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-82548787.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=jpg&sig=KnFnFbbildPm9eOM7sdmsw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-82548787.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=webp&sig=xcOY_hO42rkha8s2BUbShA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-82548787.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=jpg&sig=xOLufxnyHVbd3LGr0OY9vA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-82548787.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=116&type=webp&sig=3-stskrMsIxMZjVfUtPhXQ, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-82548787.jpg?quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=HHBdWBLIufKuRu_FrNT81A" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p> </p> </p><p>She said the cost of the service put her off wanting to explore the idea. “I just never looked at it again.”</p><p>High costs are partly why it’s more common to see individuals in their mid- to late 30s look to egg freezing rather than those in their 20s, Baratz said.</p><p>“If someone was going to have to make significant financial decisions on whether to do egg freezing or not, then I would discourage them. But if it’s feasible, it’s a great option,” he said.</p><p>For Bhopa, the road to freezing her eggs was an arduous and expensive one, but she has no regrets. “I can’t control time, but I can control what I do with my time,” she said in a YouTube video.</p><p>“I only want children when I know I have the time for it. I just don’t think the career goals I have over the next couple of years are feasible in regard to my biological clock … knocking on my door.”</p><p>Article content</p><p></p><p>Share this article in your social network</p> <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-circle-email.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-soc-rdit.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-soc-tw.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-soc-li.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/share-icons/icon-circle-share.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <p><img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/common-icon/icon-close-black.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"><p>Share this Story : "Like, just a really logical decision." 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Activate your Online Access Now</p></footer></p></p><p>Article content</p><p>On the afternoon of the flight’s arrival, the two Americans were told they’d have to wait in a police van parked at Terminal One of Vaclav Havel Airport while the operation went down.</p><p><p><p><img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/newsletters/icon-np-firstReading.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>First Reading</p><p>Your guide to the world of Canadian politics. (Subscriber exclusive on Saturdays)</p></p><p><form><p>There was an error, please provide a valid email address.</p>Sign Up</form><p>By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.</p><p>Thanks for signing up!</p><p>A welcome email is on its way. If you don"t see it, please check your junk folder.</p><p>The next issue of First Reading will soon be in your inbox.</p><p>We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again</p><p>Interested in more newsletters? Browse here.</p></p></p><p>Article content</p><p>An hour passed before the Czechs returned to the van, escorting Gupta in handcuffs. The Czech’s told the Americans they had waited for Gupta to collect his luggage before arresting him, the DEA agent wrote in his report on the incident, typed 12 days later. Gupta’s arrest, around 6:30 p.m., on June 30, 2023, went smoothly, he wrote.</p><p>The agent’s report went on to present a neat and tidy account of the arrest of Gupta on alarming charges that ignited international headlines and diplomatic tensions, most dramatically in the United States, India, and Canada, three countries being drawn into a firestorm.</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=rP_YV9MfxsqZtE71kLc-6A, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=oEjGs4ISalplhMDrYhrFHA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=HjPkzaGxj8TXQeTlZZcuqA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=dKL8uEOLdlMH-NigJAFqgQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=LJvPv1tdoukYqS1G4C7dxQ, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=AplbXsYwoYj1t1ECuCUEjg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Nikhil Gupta, accused in an international plot to kill Sikh activists in Canada, is seen arriving at Prague airport moments before his arrest. Photo by U.S. Court<p>Gupta stands accused of having a key role in an alleged conspiracy plotted from within an Indian intelligence agency to kill a dual Canadian-American citizen who leads a Sikh organization, as well as other related targets in Canada and the United States.</p><p>The murder plot in the U.S. was allegedly underway when Hardeep Singh Nijjar, an outspoken Canadian Sikh separatist, was shot dead outside a temple in Surrey, B.C.; then prime minister Justin Trudeau said “credible allegations” point to the involvement of the Indian government in the hit, setting off a harsh diplomatic dispute between Canada and India. Dozens of diplomats were kicked out of both countries.</p><p>Article content</p><p>The U.S. prosecution of Gupta later alleged that Nijjar was on the list of targets that Gupta was farming out to underworld hitmen.</p><p>Nijjar was a close associate of the alleged target in America, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. Both Nijjar and Pannun have been harsh critics of the Indian government and leaders in the Khalistan movement, seeking to create a separate homeland for Sikhs in India’s Punjab region.</p><p>That global backdrop makes this case — and Nikhil Gupta — particularly important and extraordinarily sensitive.</p><p><p>Related Stories</p><p> U.S. charges against Indian government employee for assassination plot shows ties to Nijjar slaying </p> <p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Vikash-Yadav-1-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=webp&sig=pISywqqLhRzYt3kV6CVvyA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Vikash-Yadav-1-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=jpg&sig=gdsfS7gHD_nhiDDTM18dsw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Vikash-Yadav-1-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=webp&sig=fy0wxsQSwATd1Q98qEgA8g, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Vikash-Yadav-1-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=jpg&sig=5lsmbKPUSg1IOWNaakp8pg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Vikash-Yadav-1-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=116&type=webp&sig=OsiWZJfxWkbeM9ZY-3osZA, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Vikash-Yadav-1-2.jpg?quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=h4gpC3IECwNJnYMWZp70mg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p> </p> <p> Alleged plot by Indian intelligence to kill targets in Canada and U.S. reveals sloppy spycraft </p> <p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hardeep-Nijjar-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=webp&sig=wYKvbKIewvBYgHBQ7MhRIQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hardeep-Nijjar-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=jpg&sig=9pjHkFYSPCqCYl08oHDUmQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hardeep-Nijjar-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=webp&sig=i0tZcwCPfjZFQAu52gb3rw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hardeep-Nijjar-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=jpg&sig=VOZCJGeag4hC2G2iFVdang, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hardeep-Nijjar-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=116&type=webp&sig=uctizLZlDq9wqxfQBGOK1w, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hardeep-Nijjar-1.jpg?quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=1a9itoD7X6NNMcV79kGf4A" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p> </p> </p><p>A recent flurry of insider documents rarely seen publicly were filed in federal court in New York, including the DEA agent’s report on Gupta’s arrest that relays a startling confession made by Gupta to the American officers in the back of the Czech police van while driving from the airport after his arrest.</p><p>As should be expected in a high-stakes case swirling with global intrigue, spies, and gangland figures, the emerging evidence also presents competing accounts and opposing claims that say the airport arrest, and so much more, are much messier and far sneakier than first declared.</p><p>Inside the Czech police van at the Prague airport, DEA Special Agent Mark Franks wrote afterwards in his internal report, he and Jose Sandobal, a New York detective assigned to the joint taskforce, spoke with Gupta as they travelled to a detention facility.</p><p>Article content</p><p>The Americans didn’t have long with Gupta. It was a short drive from the airport to the holding facility, less than 15 minutes, by Franks’ account.</p><p>“I want to cooperate. Take me to America and I’ll cooperate right now with you guys,” was the first thing Gupta said to the Americans, according to Sandobal’s account, given much later.</p><p>Gupta told them he was travelling in Uzbekistan in 2021 and when he returned to India, he was told he was scheduled for a court appearance for a robbery, according to Franks’ written account.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta-arrested.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=U5UBTPa-CDCOG648uOVObQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta-arrested.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=LTbi2OKXCqAvVAp_b6yRYw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta-arrested.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=Gi57XhsCQ_r5dDvnEowHdQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta-arrested.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=RZ_YfTMRENE-xrB0rbuzKQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta-arrested.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=F_mveEgInZPnWR-VaWCV4A, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta-arrested.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=upo40VeoV0Q4CeNvTn6FGA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Nikhil Gupta, accused in an international plot to kill Sikh activists in Canada, under arrest by Czech police at Prague airport. Photo by U.S. Court<p>“Gupta did not understand why, as he was not in the country, but he said this was not unusual as India’s police force is corrupt. Gupta began asking friends to see if they knew anyone who could assist him in clearing his name,” the report says. Gupta then received a phone call from someone named “Amanat” who said he could clear Gupta’s name. The two men met in New Delhi, shortly after, the report says.</p><p>“Gupta said Amanat wore a mask, hat, glasses and long sleeve t-shirts.”</p><p>Amanat asked Gupta to have someone in New York City killed. If it was a surprising request, Gupta didn’t seem to show it. He told the man he knew someone who could do it, the report alleges he said.</p><p>Gupta showed the Americans the contact number for Amanat on his phone and said he knew little else about him. Included in court filings is a photograph, taken inside the police van, of a phone being held open to the contact information screen for “Amanat” showing two numbers.</p><p>Article content</p><p>He said Amanat would probably go into hiding when he hears about Gupta’s arrest.</p><p>The agent said they read Gupta his rights as they travelled.</p><p>Gupta then wrote his name on the rights advice consent form but before signing it asked to make a phone call. The Americans said they couldn’t authorize that as he wasn’t in U.S. custody. He insisted he would sign only if he could make a phone call. And he didn’t sign it.</p><p>Take me to America and I’ll cooperate right now with you guys</p><p>“Gupta started very cooperative but later soured; don’t think he liked me,” Sandobal later said in a debrief with U.S. prosecutors, according to a court filing.</p><p>According to documents filed in court, there was a text chat group going on after the van ride between Franks, Sandobal, and two Assistant U.S. Attorneys on the prosecution team.</p><p>“Is he talking?” prosecutor Camille L. Fletch asked.</p><p>“We had limited time,” Franks replied. “He did but he was playing f–k f–k games. We think he will ultimately cooperate. We can fill you in more.”</p><p>– – – – –</p><p>At the time of Gupta’s arrest, an indictment against him was filed in U.S. federal court in the Southern District of New York. It was sealed by court order and an arrest warrant was secretly issued on June 13, 2023. Then U.S. officials requested assistance from Czech authorities to arrest him.</p><p>Article content</p><p>The Americans knew exactly what Gupta’s travel plans were because they had secretly helped to arrange them in an undercover sting.</p><p>Not long before his arrest, Gupta had reached out to a man he thought was a Colombian cocaine supplier, according to unproven allegations in the U.S. indictment and other documents filed in court.</p><p>The two men had a past. Since 2016, they had periodically discussed — but never pulled off — various guns and drugs deals. The man he spoke with was an unusually experienced snitch. He has worked as a paid DEA informant for more than 25 years.</p><p>During one of their chats in May 2023, Gupta allegedly asked the man if he knew someone who could carry out a hit on a lawyer who lives in New York. Gupta’s belief he was dealing with a professional narco seemed so deep, he gave the man the name of the intended target and told him he could pay $100,000 for the hit, court documents allege.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Gurpatwant-Singh-Pannun.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=EXrWN8qreXDV35aFyLxVSw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Gurpatwant-Singh-Pannun.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=LtCNYUicDvbJXogkHjGkEA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Gurpatwant-Singh-Pannun.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=Qff7Ev7TSnYmDOTbvFSEhw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Gurpatwant-Singh-Pannun.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=h6Rp86aYaSyxnYOD70mNfA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Gurpatwant-Singh-Pannun.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=Adxogz1zXE6H-FLqTt5z9g, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Gurpatwant-Singh-Pannun.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Xj694Vmo9MQTICHNfoinXQ" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Alleged assassination target Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in his New York office. Photo by Ted Shaffrey/AP, File<p>The snitch, of course, said he would reach out to his contacts in the New York underworld and see. The informant then introduced Gupta to a man who purported to be the Colombian’s New York hitman, but was really an undercover police agent.</p><p>Gupta allegedly used WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging app, to arrange for a courier to deliver $15,000 as a retainer for the hitman in Manhattan. The courier and the hitman met in the afternoon on June 9, 2023.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Gupta later added a specific time frame for the job: either shortly before or after the official visit to the United States by India’s prime minister in June 2023.</p><p>He also allegedly said this was the first of four hits; he would have more work for the purported killer with more targets, some of whom lived in Canada.</p><p>On June 18, 2023, came shocking news from British Columbia: Nijjar had been shot and killed outside a Sikh temple. The Indian-born citizen of Canada had been designated a terrorist by India three years earlier for his support of taking up arms in a fight for a separatist Sikh state.</p><p>The next day, Gupta allegedly sent a video clip of the Nijjar killing to the undercover agent and said the victim was one of the intended targets he had previously mentioned.</p><p>“This strongly suggests that Gupta and/or persons working with Gupta were responsible for the associate’s murder,” a U.S. letter sent to the Czech government to support Gupta’s extradition says. “Gupta also told the undercover agent that the murder of the intended victim should now be carried out as soon as possible, without regard to collateral consequences such as potential harm to civilian bystanders or any resulting protests or political upheaval.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>On a recording made by the undercover agent, Gupta allegedly said: “Hit the target … no restrictions, no limitations.”</p><p>After the victim, Pannun, was killed, Gupta would then give the hitman the next targets, including some in Canada, the U.S. prosecutors allege.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Amanat.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=Z4DmBlIyQRN_VxvaNAYfow, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Amanat.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=KZN_uoGHceTaBVLFQZDAcg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Amanat.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=c28ltKDn7BFdqq-apo_b2w, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Amanat.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=x-w1KLH-rX8QKdPhtP7P-A, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Amanat.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=gcUzhkproGO-vpUnt418_w, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Amanat.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=X2ltlDMJ3LCcjPu9Nie5sw" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Vikash Yadav, known as “Amanat” is an alleged Indian intelligence operative wanted in the United States for allegedly directing a plot to assassinate a Canadian-American political activist. Photo by FBI<p>The hitman arranged to meet with Gupta in the Czech Republic to continue the discussions and planning.</p><p>– – – – –</p><p>The story purportedly told to the American officers in the back of the Czech police van expanded the U.S. investigation and allegations in the probe.</p><p>Amanat, said to have recruited Gupta into the plot, was allegedly identified as Vikash Yadav, 39, who U.S. officials describe as a government employee and a senior field officer with India’s foreign intelligence service, called the Research and Analysis Wing.</p><p>Last October, U.S. Justice Department officials announced murder-for-hire and money laundering charges against Yadav for directing the foiled assassination plot.</p><p>The case is “a grave example of the increase in lethal plotting and other forms of violent transnational repression targeting diaspora communities in the United States,” then U.S. assistant attorney general Matthew Olsen said at the time.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Yadav is accused of providing information on the intended target, including his home addresses, phone numbers, and other identifying information. He also allegedly was involved in arranging the $15,000 advance.</p><p>So far, Yadav remains out of reach. He is on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.</p><p>Those formal allegations match the alleged confession attributed to Gupta by the DEA agent in his report.</p><p>What isn’t in the agents’ reports of Gupta’s arrest in Prague is what Gupta later reported: that he was physically grabbed by half a dozen Czech police as he walked toward an airport exit and forced into a room at the airport, where he was strip searched, questioned, and ordered to unlock his phones, which he did.</p><p>His lawyers say Czech police put him in the back of a dark SUV with tinted windows between the two Americans as seven Czech officers piled inside with them. He said the Americans didn’t identify themselves as law enforcement officials and didn’t inform him of his rights, including his right to silence.</p><p>Nonetheless, Gupta said through his lawyers in court documents, whatever he said in the van, it wasn’t the incriminating story of being recruited into a murder conspiracy by Amanat.</p><p>“At no point during the car ride did Mr. Gupta say anything about having someone in New York City killed,” his lawyers said.</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/text-2.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=PZG_0nv-MW2E7g3OjEDJIw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/text-2.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=FlAWaRwyxVp-dXHM8fDmpQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/text-2.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=YsWt-AZHT3y7SyXXQ2tvrQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/text-2.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=argfTZJjNWj10lZh_0myFg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/text-2.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=REzl2-ps3DjyOfCyMXckJg, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/text-2.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=RRtZVAXVMO1pRotTKn8tYA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>A screen shot of a text chat group of U.S. agents and prosecutors shortly after Nikhil Gupta’s arrest. Photo by U.S. Court<p>His lawyers claim the ride in the police van was much longer than the 10 to 15 minutes the DEA said it was. Gupta said he heard a Czech officer tell the Americans they would take the “long route” to give them added time.</p><p>His lawyers point to time stamps on one of Gupta’s phones — about 75 minutes passed between Gupta giving the password to Czech police and the DEA agent photographing Amanat’s contact information on it in the van.</p><p>Lawyers also point to group chat messages between the DEA officers and prosecutors, in which the agent said Gupta was playing “f–k f–k games.”</p><p>“That is not the text one would expect from an agent who had allegedly … just obtained an outright confession,” Gupta’s lawyers argue.</p><p>About two and a half hours after his arrest, Gupta was formally interrogated by Czech authorities. No Americans were present, Czech officials told Gupta’s Czech defence lawyer.</p><p>He wasn’t as talkative as he might have been in the police van. The meeting lasted just 10 minutes, most of which was taken up by him being read his rights with the help of an interpreter.</p><p>Gupta told the Czechs he came to Prague for the weekend, “solely for leisure.”</p><p>“At present, I have nothing to declare, as I do not even know what charges have been brought against me. Once I am informed of the charges, I will respond to them accordingly,” was his statement which he signed.</p><p>Article content</p><p>At his court hearing the next day, he was provided a Hindi interpreter, although he also speaks English.</p><p>After consulting privately with his lawyer, Gupta made a statement to the court: “I consent to extradition to the United States and request that the court allow me to purchase a plane ticket at my own expense so that I may travel to the United States as soon as possible to testify before the court that issued the arrest warrant. I will cooperate with U.S. authorities.” The court rejected his request to go on his own.</p><p>He also, according to the minutes of the hearing by Czech authorities asked the Prague court officials to “notify my son in India and my son in Pakistan, as well as the Indian Embassy in Prague, about my placement in pre-trial detention.”</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta-phone.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=qRe16gYuSUksPsPaMsxGeA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta-phone.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=XizbjVFAOemMhIadxpUR5w, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta-phone.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=TDPTXNsV1coQP-J9jm7Umg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta-phone.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=S76PCIuFF6z1AnCjM2JAbQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta-phone.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=WlhJGw6xaRisUnzbDnmG0g, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nikhil-Gupta-phone.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=C-bXvPCviOnWkN3ECbC1mQ" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>A screenshot of Nikhil Gupta’s phone taken in a Czech police van by U.S. agents showing a phone contact for a man known as Amanat, said to be an agent with India’s intelligence agency. Photo by U.S. Court<p>That part in the documents, about him having a son in Pakistan, and elsewhere a reference to him also having a Pakistan passport, grabbed attention in India and Pakistan, two neighbouring countries with strained and often hostile relations. Gupta denied in court appeals that he has Pakistan travel documents.</p><p>He also told a court in Prague that he disputed the U.S. allegations.</p><p>He said he had no reason to order a murder and didn’t have the money to pay someone $100,000. He also, however, offered a $500,000 surety for his release on bond pending the outcome of his extradition hearing. He said false accusations may have been motivated by jealousy of his success by someone who wanted to ruin his name and reputation.</p><p>Article content</p><p>He then fiercely fought against extradition, appealing repeatedly until his options expired. One of his complaints was that the prosecution against him had political and “semi-military” interests.</p><p>He complained of the impromptu interview in the back of the police van by the Americans, alleging they took his photo and photos of his travel documents and accessed his phones without respecting his rights. His lawyer called that “unlawful” conduct. In a Czech high court ruling, it is also said that in one of Gupta’s appeals, he claimed he was “under an obligation, imposed by the Indian intelligence service, not to discuss the matter in any way.” He seemed a man full of contradictions.</p><p>Documents speak of him having a global footprint, including a six-month visa for Switzerland, real estate deals in Dubai, travels through Asia and Europe, and trips to Los Angeles and New York.</p><p>A court in Prague ordered him extradited to the United States last year and he arrived in New York, where he was taken into U.S. federal custody, in June 2024. He has pleaded not guilty.</p><p>It is unusual for this insider information and level of detail in an ongoing criminal case to be available publicly, especially this early in the process.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Lawyers for Gupta in New York, however, have asked the court to suppress some evidence and “unlawfully obtained” statements, and to dismiss one of the three charges, that of money laundering.</p><p>In support of that motion, last month they submitted reams of documents into the public court record, including the evidence sent to Czech officials to support the U.S. request for Gupta’s arrest, and more sent to rebut Gupta’s challenges to his extradition.</p><p>At no point during the car ride did Mr. Gupta say anything about having someone in New York City killed</p><p>Defence lawyers</p><p>Gupta’s lawyers say the money laundering charge should not be prosecuted as it was not included in the original indictment presented to Czech authorities when they requested Gupta’s arrest. It was an additional charge included in a superseding indictment sent later. The charge expands the sentencing range Gupta faces from a 10-year maximum to 20 years.</p><p>Gupta’s lawyers’ motion also complains that Czech police violated Gupta’s rights by interrogating him and obtaining the passwords for his phones, and then sending the contents of the phones to U.S. authorities. They want any evidence from the phones to be excluded from Gupta’s prosecution.</p><p>They also claim the police van interrogation by U.S. officials was an “unconstitutional interrogation” because Gupta was not informed of his rights prior to the questioning. They want any statements he might have made to be excluded from evidence as well.</p><p>Those issues are being argued in a New York courtroom.</p><p>Lawyers for Gupta and for Pannun did not respond to requests for comment on the case and the allegations. 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A conscientious objector — “I didn’t want to kill anybody” — the Brooklyn-born Nagler crossed the border in Vermont when he got his draft notice and built a career in Canada as a children’s entertainer. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post<p>“I claimed conscientious objection, and I had a student deferment, and we went back and forth like that … Finally, the notice came for me to appear at Whitehall Street on a particular day, and instead I drove across the Vermont border into Canada.”</p><p><p><p><img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/newsletters/icon-longStory.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Long Story</p><p>Curated longreads and features from top journalists across Canada, delivered Saturdays.</p></p><p><form><p>There was an error, please provide a valid email address.</p>Sign Up</form><p>By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.</p><p>Thanks for signing up!</p><p>A welcome email is on its way. If you don"t see it, please check your junk folder.</p><p>The next issue of Long Story will soon be in your inbox.</p><p>We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again</p><p>Interested in more newsletters? Browse here.</p></p></p><p>Article content</p><p>After settling down in Toronto, Nagler opened a music store and went on to become a beloved children’s television personality on The Elephant Show and Eric’s World. He’s written three books for children and released countless songs, with titles ranging from You Got a Place Where You Belong to Sneezes. From time to time, he even plays the sewerphone — a saxophone-shaped instrument made of plumbing pipes.</p><p>Nagler isn’t bashful about his choice to leave the United States. “Down there in the States, we were called draft resisters, but it was fine up here just to be a draft dodger,” he recalls. “We’re not very good at war, up here in Canada.”</p><p>Over 50,000 Americans came to Canada in opposition to the Vietnam War, based on estimates from John Hagan’s book, Northern Passage (2001). This was the largest exodus of political migrants from the U.S. since The American Revolution. Some hoped to avoid the draft, others deserted after months or years of service, still others left for ideological reasons. Though they weren’t subject to the draft, Hagan writes that more women migrated than men, “most as partners and spouses, and some on their own.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>We’re not very good at war, up here in Canada</p><p>Eric Nagler, resister, children"s entertainer</p><p>An elaborate vocabulary emerged in the 1970s to categorize these American newcomers: they were dodgers, evaders, deserters, resisters, émigrés, exiles or plain-old immigrants. Each term came with its own baggage. “Deserter” carried a sense of national betrayal; “resister” had a more sympathetic ring to it.</p><p>These categories concealed the messier and more personal realities of coming to Canada. The National Post spoke to nine U.S. war resisters about their journeys north. Their lives had no unifying narrative. Many were highly educated and went on to make lasting contributions to Canadian politics and industry. Some were musicians, painters and authors who immersed themselves in the growing counterculture of the 1960s — be it in the Yorkville neighbourhood of Toronto or in the mountain towns of British Columbia. The war resisters changed Canada and Canada changed them.</p><p>As Canada grows estranged from our neighbours to the south, an age-old question comes back into focus: What sets us apart? Prime Minister Mark Carney says it is our ability to recall the names of the two puppets on CBC children’s television show Mr. Dressup. Pierre Poilievre, in a strangely American twist, says it is the “protective arms of a solid border” and the promise that “hard work gets you a great life.” Jeff Douglas, in his renowned rant from a 2000 Molson Canadian beer ad, says it is our belief that “a toque is a hat” and “a chesterfield is a couch.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>The resisters of the Vietnam era had better answers. Maybe it takes years of living between countries to see the gap fully. Or maybe there was something about that era — a time of national reckoning for both countries — that made our differences easier to discern. Decades later, their stories offer some clarity on Canada’s place in an ever-tumultuous continent.</p><p>Eric Nagler is the first to reassure Canadians searching for a sense of national difference. “The United States government is run by a bunch of big-time criminals, and that’s more true now than it ever has been,” he says.</p><p>“In Canada, it’s run by small-time criminals. You know, you can get along here.”</p>How the war began<p>In 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam’s independence from France. His speech began with a quote from the U.S. Declaration of Independence. “All men are created equal,” he proclaimed. “They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”</p><p>France reimposed colonial rule less than a month after Ho’s address, beginning a brutal conflict known as the First Indochina War. President Harry Truman, worried about the spread of communism in Indochina, committed vast amounts of American money and arms to the French military. By the middle of 1954, the United States was paying about 80 per cent of French war costs. And so the conflict became, as many Vietnamese still refer to it, “the American war.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-cambodia-helicopters.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=zL9YUWl_GHsPdoO62HzYaw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-cambodia-helicopters.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=6LMrbToaOi5GTMpZGELsrw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-cambodia-helicopters.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=_yAh_i3Qx7Z6Y-FPUNT9WQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-cambodia-helicopters.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=EvghGl44DBvrivou9MhChQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-cambodia-helicopters.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=bfc5wHP-aRxrXpQPCVX6tQ, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-cambodia-helicopters.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=o9f6xuOiUJav4h6w9ktNmg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>In March 1965, U.S. Army helicopters fire into the treeline to cover advancing South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp northwest of Saigon, near Cambodia. Photo by Horst Faas/The Associated Press<p>In the 1950s and early 1960s, U.S. leaders tried to conceal their interest in Indochina. Nancy, a resident of the B.C. Interior and the daughter of a U.S. air force officer, lived in Arizona at the time. “There was a little box in the daily news, and it told you how many American advisers there were in Vietnam,” she recalls. (Nancy wanted to use only her first name to speak more openly.) “Those numbers grew, day after day after day, and then pretty soon the numbers started to not make sense.” By the end of 1964, around 23,000 American advisers were stationed in Vietnam.</p><p>Nancy wasn’t the only one to question why South Vietnam needed so much advice. Newspapers, activists and concerned citizens began to interrogate the ballooning U.S. presence in Vietnam as the costs of war grew higher. Graham Greene’s The Quiet American (1955) satirized America’s failing efforts to fly under the radar. Alden Pyle, a fictional economic adviser from America, is murdered in Vietnam, and his family receives a cable stating that he died a soldier’s death. “The Economic Aid Mission doesn’t sound like the Army,” Graham’s narrator remarks dryly. “Do you get Purple Hearts?”</p><p>Soon enough, the war came out of the shadows. In March 1965, the first U.S. troops landed in Vietnam; by 1969, there were more than 500,000 of them. Mark Atwood Lawrence, a history professor at the University of Texas, notes that public support for the war was initially high. Many young Americans rallied around the flag, driven in part by cultural memories of the Second World War.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Yet support faded as the conflict dragged on and “more body bags came back, with no apparent end in sight,” explained Lawrence in an interview with the Post. Then U.S. president Lyndon Johnson failed to provide a clear rationale for the conflict, and Lawrence says that the public “had a really hard time seeing how American interests were really at stake in a fight so far away from American shores.”</p><p>Americans took to the streets to express their discontent. About 35,000 rioters attacked the Pentagon in 1967, climbing walls and throwing rocks and vegetables at military officers. The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam — a 1969 demonstration of over 500,000 people — was one of the largest antiwar protests in U.S. history.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-protest-boston-wide.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=YYfYB4c-T2Q7JrGURakLjQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-protest-boston-wide.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=UEXLeV6z5ElTXRHrZr0_fA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-protest-boston-wide.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=J0LZW9y-luHaOnxyWNJXSg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-protest-boston-wide.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=_I8zG4KBew7hcGQ6eAgI6g, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-protest-boston-wide.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=sCuBsBN5JzSiREFgYwtsxA, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-protest-boston-wide.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=pCdvf-UvKULqLUzLMQ76CA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>In October 1965, college students march in Boston Common, protesting the Vietnam War. Photo by Frank C. Curtin/The Associated Press files<p>Corky Evans, a resident of the B.C. Interior, recalls attending several protests while growing up in California. “I saw the police breaking people’s heads and blood everywhere and hundreds of cops,” says Evans. “My younger brother went to prison that day for the crime of stopping to throw up as people were being beaten up in front of him.”</p><p>The antiwar movement was part of a larger wave of political upheaval in the U.S. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 led thousands of Americans to convert their basements into nuclear fallout shelters. The 1965 Civil Rights Act banned racial segregation in public spaces, sparking violent backlash against African-Americans. Medgar Evers was assassinated in June 1963, then John F. Kennedy in November 1963, then Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.</p><p>Article content</p><p>“It was just all falling apart,” Evans recalls. He eventually migrated to British Columbia in 1969 out of opposition to the war.</p>Between country and conscience<p>“Sarge, I’m only 18, I got a ruptured spleen, and I always carry a purse,” sang Phil Ochs. “I’ve got eyes like a bat and my feet are flat, and my asthma’s getting worse.”</p><p>The Draft Dodger Rag was released on Ochs’ 1965 album I Ain’t Marching Anymore, and was later covered by Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton and John Denver. The song takes on the persona of a “typical American boy” who faces his local draft board. Ochs satirizes the vast and creative set of excuses that American youth used to evade the draft, from allergies to epilepsy to working at a defence plant.</p><p>The song was popular because it spoke to a newly surfacing truth: a lot of American boys weren’t going to Vietnam. Students could defer conscription for years at a time, as could some married men. Draftees could also gain medical exemptions if they had a letter from their private doctor, notes Christian Appy, history professor and author of Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers in Vietnam (1993). Well-informed draftees found ways to feign colour blindness, mental illness, homosexuality and so on. “There were actually people who paid to have braces put on to get an exemption,” Appy says in an interview with the Post.</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-nixon.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=herJ3J6PWoHseuy--jkzWg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-nixon.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=HM9gx1NMIcSeAF4hTAO7Kw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-nixon.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=07V6uTYjCT-1WHgCwH7KBQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-nixon.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=-kz7UhBetwM5PodEeIZzww, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-nixon.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=tKZ9bH38W_MdPNlvFMmR2A, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-nixon.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=lC1eTdaqKVttw-iLQ1AC3g" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>In July 1969, then U.S. president Richard Nixon meets with American soldiers northeast of Saigon during his eighth visit to South Vietnam and his first visit as president. Photo by Bob Daugherty/The Associated Press<p>The wealthier the family, the more likely their sons were to benefit from exemptions and deferrals. According to Appy’s Working-Class War, about 80 per cent of Americans who served during the Vietnam War were from working- or lower-class households.</p><p>To assuage cries of class discrimination, newly elected president Richard Nixon introduced the lottery draft in 1969. Each day of the year was written on a piece of paper and placed inside a plastic capsule. The capsules were randomly drawn out of a jar on live television. If the first day chosen was July 19, then each draft-eligible man born on that day would have Lottery No. 1. The draftees were then called for service in order of their lottery number. It was a “bingo-style system for choosing which 20-year-olds were going to be sent away to die for commercial and political agendas,” recalls Fred Rosenberg, a U.S.-born resident of Nelson, B.C.</p><p>Draft calls grew higher when the war expanded and Nixon abolished both occupational draft deferments and deferments for fathers. As evading the draft legally grew more challenging, thousands of young men began eyeing the northern border.</p><p>Draft dodgers faced criticism from all directions. A hawkish political right viewed them as traitors to their country. Many of the dodgers’ own parents had served in the Second World War and valued military service as a national tradition. Genevieve, a resident of Nelson, B.C., is the daughter of a Vietnam-era draft dodger. When her father dodged the draft, his parents contacted the FBI and asked for their son to be tracked down.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Even among vocal antiwar activists, draft dodgers were often shunned for taking the perceived easy way out. Students for a Democratic Society, one of the largest antiwar groups in the U.S., urged Canadians to stop supporting Toronto’s draft counselling centres. When Joan Baez performed at a 1969 concert in Toronto, she urged the draft dodgers to return home. “What (the draft dodgers) are doing is opting out of the struggle at home,” she declared. “That’s where they should go, if only to fill the jails.”</p><p>These criticisms were tinted by the growing understanding of draft evasion as a class privilege. “These people from the elite don’t go (to Vietnam),” said Richard Nixon in a taped conversation about draft dodgers. “They’re all f-cking running (to Canada) … I don’t buy that repression issue.”</p><p>Jack Todd, a deserter from Western Nebraska, spoke to this class dynamic more gently. The draft dodgers “had gone to University of Wisconsin or Berkeley or something,” he said. “They came up with their VW Beetle and their girlfriend or wife, and they already had a job lined up and all that.”</p><p>It’s true that the dodgers were disproportionately from college-educated households, according to Frank Kusch’s book All American Boys (2001). It was often at university that men heard about the possibility of migrating north. And, in 1967, Canada introduced a points-based immigration system, which gave priority to migrants with more education, work experience and connections.</p><p>Article content</p><p>These people from the elite don’t go (to Vietnam)... They’re all f-cking running (to Canada)</p><p>Richard Nixon</p><p>Yet the image of the draft dodger conjured by the American public — of a rich, long-haired Ivy League graduate fleeing to downtown Toronto in cowardly avoidance of his national duties — isn’t quite right. For one thing, they weren’t all rich. Many upper-class men were able to gain exemptions earlier in the process, rendering a move to Canada unnecessary.</p><p>While knowledge of Canada was limited early in the war, migration became easier after the publication of Mark Satin’s Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants in 1968. The manual instructed dodgers on how to rack up enough points to get across the border, how to avoid criminal punishment and how to find housing in major Canadian cities. (“Most Canadians do not live in caves or igloos,” the manual advises.) It sold almost 100,000 copies.</p><p>Satin also personally counselled hundreds of draft dodgers in Toronto. “We got huge numbers of middle-class and lower middle-class kids who were very idealistic,” he recalled in a recent interview with the Post. “They didn’t really have options.”</p><p>For another thing, the dodgers’ opposition to the war extended beyond a personal unwillingness to fight. “There’s been a real tendency over the years to hang a lot of importance on the draft,” notes Mark Lawrence, the professor from the University of Texas. “I think sometimes that’s a way of dismissing the movement. I wouldn’t say, of course, that it was never a factor, but it’s probably been exaggerated to some extent as a motivator for antiwar activism.”</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-villagers.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=7Lkpou3hU85viNQNn03qQA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-villagers.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=cZMZSrXZiall4Y41ZwNM-w, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-villagers.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=_0IjwlWuDskikX5ELH6JVQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-villagers.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=_3HY3et5qTgz9R-y5c0PLg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-villagers.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=TR6OZ6T__7LMuBH0JYGeAw, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-villagers.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CINUsKVrZXOXkaTYrB9GOw" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Under sniper fire, Vietnamese flee with their children as U.S. Marines storm the village of My Son, near Da Nang, searching for Viet Cong insurgents in April 1965. Photo by Eddie Adams/The Associated Press<p>Even for those who did flee out of personal fear, it’s hard to see their decision as a cowardly one. The draftees’ options were to go overseas for two years to fight in a war they considered destructive and futile, commit identity theft and go underground or end up in federal prison. Conscription presented an impossible choice between country and conscience.</p>Life in Resisterville<p>On Halloween of 1969, Corky Evans and his wife ended up in a hospital in Duncan, B.C. “It was midnight, and her water had broken. So we had to go to the hospital to have this baby, but we had no money and we didn’t have a doctor.”</p><p>They drove to the hospital and left their two other children in the car parked outside. Evans’ wife was admitted to the maternity ward. “I went and stood at the front door waiting for somebody to come and ask me for money,” Evans remembers. “Because that’s how I had learned the health system works where I had grown up. I’m standing there in the dark. It’s now 1 in the morning or something.”</p><p>A nurse came by to ask Evans what he was doing. “My wife is upstairs having a baby, and I’m standing here waiting to talk to somebody about how I’m going to pay,” said Evans. The nurse told him to go upstairs and take care of his wife, and that they would talk about payment the next day.</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-corky-evans.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=JPMpGpEWtjFJREwhH_-hLQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-corky-evans.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=uPEfDXxbWVqWtdy6if1qGg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-corky-evans.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=JC38BAybiPE-mX2xCnqplQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-corky-evans.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=A1VYkV1i6LtpWtF9OzQJ-g, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-corky-evans.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=E-cvCmxAVbL2-lUt4KbF1w, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-corky-evans.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=MS_U6E7mVfIJOJfy4mjDiw" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Corky Evans attended anti-war protests while growing up in California, and his opposition to the Vietnam War saw him move to British Columbia in 1969. He went on to become an MLA for B.C.’s Nelson-Creston district and hold several cabinet positions in the provincial NDP. Photo by Mark van Manen/Postmedia News<p>“I just stood there in the dark. I started to cry. I had never had such an experience in my life where somebody in the health-care system cared more about the well-being of the people than the money.”</p><p>Evans migrated from California to Vancouver Island, where he worked as a longshoreman. After a brief stint in the Northwest Territories, his family settled down in the West Kootenays of British Columbia. He would go on to become an MLA for the Nelson-Creston district and hold several cabinet positions in the provincial NDP.</p><p>By the late 1960s, the Kootenays had become a hub for the draft dodgers. Many arrived in Vancouver before travelling to the B.C. Interior, where land was cheap and a vibrant counterculture was emerging. The Doukhobors, a Russian religious minority exiled in the early 20th century, helped provide the migrants with housing and jobs. The epicentre of American migration was Nelson, B.C., a small community tucked beside the West Arm of Kootenay Lake. The town became known as “Resisterville.”</p><p>The draft dodgers changed Nelson. Professor Kathleen Rodgers, author of Welcome to Resisterville (2014), writes that the influx of war resisters was akin to “dropping the population of a large university campus into a remote rural community.” The dodgers took on key roles in local anti-logging protests, made Nelson a nuclear-free zone and, decades later, protested the Iraq War. Many started or led communes — Harmony’s Gate, the Reds and the Blues, and the New Family. One war resister, Jeff Mock, began running a local tofu business.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Of course, Nelson changed the draft dodgers, too. While many dodgers moved to the B.C. Interior with a back-to-the-land aesthetic, they generally came from large cities and lacked the skills to maintain crops or build homes. The residents of Nelson helped the migrants adjust to a rural lifestyle; they wrote books and started community organizations to teach farming and construction.</p><p>Other dodgers embarked on spiritual journeys. Nancy and her husband migrated to B.C. after receiving a draft letter in the mail. They travelled through the province, visiting an ashram and eventually joining the New Family commune. Nancy didn’t cede herself fully to the counterculture. “I was a mother at that point, so I wasn’t going to go winging off in the crazy land,” she says. “But I was interested in the spiritual stuff a lot … I taught myself how to meditate, and then, you know, I became part of that world.”</p>An extremely forgettable city<p>“Toronto itself is in many ways an extremely forgettable city, sprawled out on the flat north shore of the lake, with endless ticky-tacky suburbs unrelieved by scenery or imagination,” wrote Canadian historian Douglas Myers in a contribution to Satin’s Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants. Myers assures readers that Toronto is nevertheless “a city of many small important pleasures — quiet tree-lined neighbourhoods, clean streets, good schools.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>By the late 1960s, Toronto had become a mecca for Americans on the lam. While some dodgers enjoyed the remoteness of the B.C. Interior, others were ambitious young professionals who preferred an urban setting.</p><p>Toronto was an especially appealing choice because the government of Vancouver — the other large, English-speaking city in Canada — had grown openly hostile to war resisters. “I don’t like draft dodgers,” declared Vancouver mayor Thomas Campbell in 1970, “and I will do anything within the law to get rid of them.” He proposed that the 1914 War Measures Act (which allowed the Canadian government to suspend civil liberties in wartime) be used against “any revolutionary, whether he’s a U.S. draft dodger or a hippie.”</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-mark-satin-vancouver.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=c8vL18Xv5k_R2eYnXfUhuQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-mark-satin-vancouver.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=mTHJazU7h9HmsfQO-5OVgA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-mark-satin-vancouver.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=ixNmEBnOEgTIXI-nB-lsJA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-mark-satin-vancouver.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=TVrGbM9Kd3aTm7BEvAqjiw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-mark-satin-vancouver.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=yuONtxXdUzJPUqqKvKuFIQ, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-mark-satin-vancouver.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=7bRLBfe6H18kApaUxzzq-Q" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Mark Satin, author Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada, shown in Vancouver in 1978. In 1968, Satin and some friends operated The Last Resort, a Vancouver hostel for war resisters from the U.S. Photo by Erich Hoyt<p>Several organizations cropped up to assist American migrants in Toronto with housing, legal aid and social support. The largest group was the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme (TADP), founded in 1966 by the Student Union for Peace Action (SUPA) at the University of Toronto. They resettled hundreds of dodgers in Baldwin Village, Yorkville, the Annex and other neighbourhoods surrounding the university.</p><p>“Within a few months, I had a list of literally 200 Torontonians who were housing (the draft dodgers),” recalls Mark Satin, a key organizer in the TADP. “People were constantly calling the office asking if they could help.” Not all of them were stereotypical leftists who opposed the war, Satin notes. “Many of them were simply people who had empathy for the situation.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>The draft dodgers integrated quickly into the free-spirited, eclectic youth culture of 1960s Toronto. “A popular pastime in Toronto is visiting Yorkville Village to spot the beatniks, oddballs, and Bohemia,” said CBC reporter Larry Bondi in a 1965 broadcast. “But now the name of the game for visitors is to spot the American draft dodger.”</p><p>Some resisters remained highly engaged with the antiwar movement while living in Canada. Jack Colhoun grew up in a patriotic family in Upstate New York. He deserted the U.S. army, where he had served as a second lieutenant, and moved to Toronto for roughly a decade.</p><p>“We didn’t want to forget the war, and we didn’t want the American people to forget the war,” Colhoun says. He became an editor for Amex Canada, a magazine for American war resisters in Canada. Amex sought to publicize the stories of Americans fleeing the war, and worked closely with antiwar veterans’ organizations.</p><p>Living in exile wasn’t easy.</p><p>Jack Colhoun, came to Canada in 1970</p><p>Other resisters kept a deliberate distance from wartime politics. Bob Griesel migrated in 1969 from Tacoma, Wash., to Edmonton. He wasn’t selected for military service, but left the U.S. after seeing the war’s effects on his draft-age peers.</p><p>“My friends who I went to high school and college with who’d been drafted were starting to return from their tours of duty,” Griesel recalled in a recent interview. “We caused them to be mentally disfigured and physically disfigured and many of them ruined for life. A couple of them I knew ended up dying from leukemia due to Agent Orange. And my question was, ‘Why did we do that to those young men, for that purpose, at that time? What was the point?’”</p><p>Article content</p><p>Griesel chose to integrate fully into Canadian life, putting memories of the war behind him and avoiding American TV channels. The people of Edmonton “didn’t give a darn where I came from,” he says. “Nobody up there was talking about the war.”</p>The Last Resort<p>“There was this marvellous house,” recalls Mark Satin. “It was huge. It was painted army green, ironically enough, and there were two guys sitting in front who looked kind of weird.”</p><p>It was autumn of 1968, and that army green house was in the middle of Vancouver, a few blocks from False Creek. Satin, a recently migrated resister from Texas, signed the lease for $75 a month. He and his friends converted the house into a hostel for war resisters from the U.S., and called it “The Last Resort.”</p><p>Satin estimates that somewhere between one-third and one-half of the men at The Last Resort were deserters. While dodgers left before joining the military, deserters were people who had served for some time before parting ways. “Many of (the deserters) were in terrible emotional shape,” Satin remembers. “When they came here, some of them were virtually silent. Some of them just sort of mumbled.”</p><p>For seven months, Satin cooked, cleaned and washed bed sheets for The Last Resort’s guests. He served dinner every night at 6:30 p.m. — spaghetti three nights a week, chicken livers with rice or beef Stroganoff on the other days. “I knew that they needed structure, whether they were middle-class or working-class or deserters,” he said. On Sunday nights, they would have open houses where Vancouverites could buy dinner for 50 cents and meet the resisters.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-Vancouver-protest-Trudeau-wide.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=Lvv4Ey9APFunYDIc1AXp-A, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-Vancouver-protest-Trudeau-wide.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=A461-MkF9n9plBED5uQNcA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-Vancouver-protest-Trudeau-wide.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=O-QzYi2NyjUGB8zqzojn6A, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-Vancouver-protest-Trudeau-wide.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=LMKKlOs9v_yd8Khg3hVXBA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-Vancouver-protest-Trudeau-wide.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=QDa4lTl-57KH7nnMFePqaA, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-Vancouver-protest-Trudeau-wide.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=J4SHzPiJT8zTw9V96yvjbw" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>In August 1969, then prime minister Pierre Trudeau speaks to anti-war protesters outside Vancouver’s Seaforth Armoury. Photo by Ralph Bower/Postmedia News<p>Running The Last Resort was gruelling work. Satin personally counselled each migrant, and estimates the hostel served over 1,000 people altogether. Many struggled to adjust. One deserter, after being accidentally woken up, “immediately leaped up in his karate crouch, ready to kill the person who’d woken him.” Another became dependent on hard drugs and had to be forcibly removed.</p><p>A few months in, Satin left the hostel unsupervised for a weekend while visiting a friend. He returned to find the house’s inhabitants huddled in blankets by an unlit stove, eating Wonder Bread. “It was kind of funny, but it was horrible, too,” Satin says. “These were 18-, 19-year-olds who really didn’t know how to cope.”</p><p>According to Hagan’s Northern Passage, there were more than 432,000 desertions during the Vietnam War, fewer than one per cent of which happened on the battlefield. No written law in Canada discriminated against deserters, and Hagan notes that Canada had taken in many war resisters from Hungary and Czechoslovakia before the war in Vietnam.</p><p>Yet in 1966, Canada’s immigration department covertly instructed officers to deny admission to all deserters. The U.S. wasn’t pressuring Canada to turn the deserters back — at least officially — but Hagan suspects the Canadian government worried about future retaliation.</p><p>Article content</p><p>It didn’t help that almost 70 per cent of Canada’s immigration officers were military veterans, based on a report cited in Hagan’s Northern Passage. Many veterans believed deserters were shirking their obligations and looked for ways to deny them entry. Points-based immigration, implemented in 1967, attempted to standardize admissions; still, the points rubric was extremely vague, giving officers significant discretion over who was kept out.</p><p>This de facto exclusion of deserters became clearer to the public over time. In February 1969, five undergraduates from York University pretended to be American deserters and tried to enter Southern Ontario from the United States. Four out of five were denied entry before even filling out an application.</p><p>Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal government faced mounting pressure to admit deserters more freely — from antiwar groups and the United Church of Canada, but also from Canadians wary of American control. “Since when is it a function of the Canadian government to enforce U.S. laws respecting the draft?” wrote one Canadian in a letter to Allan MacEachen, the immigration minister at the time.</p><p>In May 1969, the federal government announced that draft dodgers and deserters would be admitted to Canada without consideration of their military status. Whether someone was a draft dodger was “an irrelevant question,” Trudeau declared in a U.S. news conference. “We also know that a number — perhaps a superior number — of Canadians come to the United States to join the U.S. Army,” he noted with his signature half-smile, “and there may be some solace in that.” By Hagan’s account, the number of male, draft-age landed immigrants from the U.S. tripled in the five months between April and August 1969.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-jane-fonda-vancouver-protest.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=Uzo5vy_oCuiUCvwKCvNV2A, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-jane-fonda-vancouver-protest.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=3gKB5MBIaY_giIkr86_bmw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-jane-fonda-vancouver-protest.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=EmOrfzXDzPl6herDStzMuQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-jane-fonda-vancouver-protest.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=Z_cHnZ_dXYfDC0UMItLOMA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-jane-fonda-vancouver-protest.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=TFPAx1RAy9uYVXFLyeB5Ew, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-jane-fonda-vancouver-protest.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=nFJPoiHJlmS-XVt7IYcVEQ" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>In November 1974, actress and anti-Vietnam War activist Jane Fonda speaks with anti-war protesters — including U.S. draft evaders and deserters living in Canada — at the Peace Arch border crossing in B.C. The province was a popular destination for resisters. Photo by Ian Lindsay/Postmedia News<p>Deserters faced a unique set of challenges in Canada. While dodgers tended to be college-educated, most deserters were lower- and working-class Americans who had been forced to serve because they lacked the information, connections or wealth needed to evade the draft. When they moved north, they were less likely to have friends or family to rely on, and their lack of formal education made it hard to find work.</p><p>“Living in exile wasn’t easy,” says Jack Colhoun, a military deserter who came to Canada in June 1970. “I learned in August of 1970 that my mother had cancer … My mom was my only living relative. We had to go through her struggles with cancer and eventual death. I couldn’t even go to her funeral without risking being arrested and put in jail.”</p><p>President Jimmy Carter pardoned the dodgers in 1977, but he didn’t pardon the deserters. Many were unable to return home for fear of military prosecution, even decades after the war. As recently as 2006, a British Columbia resident who had deserted the U.S. Marines in 1968 was arrested and held in an American military jail when he tried to visit Nevada for vacation (he was ultimately discharged after a week-long detention).</p><p>Perhaps most significantly, deserters often bore permanent physical or psychological injuries from the war. Alice, a woman from the Kootenays, recalled her husband’s decision to leave the U.S. in the early 1970s. He had served in Vietnam as a medic and helicopter repairman in 1969 and witnessed graphic acts of violence.</p><p>Article content</p><p>After returning to a disintegrating America and being told he had one more year to serve, Alice’s husband fled to Canada. “He had some desperate experiences (in Vietnam),” Alice says, “and just retreated into this place where he could no longer handle confrontation of any kind. He felt he had no other choice but to leave.” Alice’s real name has been changed to protect her family’s privacy.</p>Vietnam in retrospect<p>What leads someone to see a war differently? Often, it’s a trickling stream of information — news headlines, television footage, protests on a nearby lawn. But many resisters also describe turning points in their understanding of the war — moments where the conflict suddenly became sharper and more personal.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-soldier-helmet.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=a0UfS3Ayt6jmQeK4P-iHeg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-soldier-helmet.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=FSBs7TYqYwN3ls5Aay5fTA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-soldier-helmet.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=_8uHhdny_yHM52ziV_1tuw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-soldier-helmet.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=orNUR0FthnC8vrsAlzG1Hg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-soldier-helmet.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=BOE4su-GrFgFglqtWKMO0Q, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-soldier-helmet.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=2QqqCNund4KwZ66fhnGKAw" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>A 20-year-old Marine from Columbus, Ohio, serving in Da Nang, South Vietnam, in September 1967 puts his own spin on the anti-war slogan, “Make love not war.” Photo by Bettmann/Getty<p>For Jack Todd, the turning point was a conversation with his childhood best friend, who had returned home from a helicopter base in Vietnam. “I went down to his house one night … (he) had seen some really horrific action, and he had pictures of GIs holding a string of Viet Cong ears that they had cut off and things like that.</p><p>“That was the pivotal thing that gave me nightmares,” Todd says. “I just couldn’t get it out of my mind.” He moved to Vancouver and then to Montreal.</p><p>The Vietnam War itself was a turning point for America — the thing that would give the nation nightmares for decades to come. The draft dodgers were raised in the glow of the Second World War, amid unprecedented American wealth and dominance. They allowed themselves to imagine a radically equal America. By the time the draft letters came in the mail, both a coveted past and an imagined future were fraying at the edges. The trust, pride and idealism of postwar America were never fully restored.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Less acknowledged is the possibility that the war transformed Canada, as well. The draft dodgers left an enduring imprint on Canadian culture. Todd became an influential sports columnist at the Montreal Gazette, where he’s worked for 39 years. Eric Nagler brought the sewerphone, Jesse Winchester brought the guitar, William Gibson brought the cyberpunk. The dodgers also brought with them a distinctly American form of politics: a propensity for standing on lawns with garish signs and speaking loudly about injustice.</p><p>In a larger sense, Vietnam marked Canada’s tentative separation from the foreign policy objectives of our southern neighbour. We were closely aligned with America during the later years of the Second World War, then in the formation of NATO, then during the Korean War.Trudeau’s welcoming of American exiles was one of the first Canadian decisions since the Great Depression to openly defy U.S. interests.</p><p>It’s easy to find parallels between Vietnam-era politics and our current predicament — an increasingly authoritarian America, a newly defiant Canada, a flock of migrants heading north. Yet many of the war resisters argued that North America is experiencing something new.</p><p>Article content</p><p>I think it’s the defining act of my life.</p><p>Jack Todd, resister</p><p>Some feel that the current state of American democracy is incomparable to past lapses. “This isn’t just a changed political climate,” says Bob Griesel, who moved back to Washington State in the ’70s to be with his family after spending 17 years in Canada. “This is an absolute coup and revolution. I can’t compare it to anywhere we’ve been.”</p><p>Others say that conscription made politics more personal than it is today. “There was no apathy,” says Nancy, who migrated to British Columbia during the war. “You were either on one side or the other side. I walked in peace marches, and the people on the sidewalk would jeer at you and call you names and spit at you.”</p><p>Conscription gave the war an immediate, inescapable significance for a generation of draft-age men — and for their girlfriends, wives, parents, siblings, teachers. For most North Americans today, the wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Syria live at a comfortable distance. No matter how much moral outrage we feel, we can always choose to look away.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-jack-todd.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=fzKboEDD_D-R005TVWerBg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-jack-todd.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=JGFXzZ3mCKPxGIjgGYuUXQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-jack-todd.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=mQYKyb6jKHjusBBjq8YsfQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-jack-todd.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=P6Ap_ddXHmlMykPkU8L_ww, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-jack-todd.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=ofDvdLrgD4XJLQLsrI2k8Q, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vietnam-war-draft-dodgers-American-military-soldiers-Viet-Cong-jack-todd.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=ZIfOIgOEdGvEHZNr1QNCdQ" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Montreal Gazette sports columnist Jack Todd, shown in 2015, decided to desert from Nebraska after hearing horrific stories from his childhood best friend, who served on a helicopter base in Vietnam. Photo by Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press<p>Most striking was the sense of personal and cultural freedom that many interviewees experienced in Canada. The war resisters lived through an incredibly turbulent decade. At the age of 18 or 19, they became strangers in a strange land. 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There wasn’t herpes. You could find a girlfriend just by talking to someone in a park or in a grocery store.” He sighs. “By the Summer of Love and the late ’60s, we were talking to each other in ways that I’m not sure your generation does.”</p><p>About half of the war resisters remained in Canada permanently. Some have stayed politically vocal over the years, advocating on behalf of the few hundred American deserters who fled to Canada during the Iraq War to avoid military prosecution. But most eventually faded into the woodwork, embracing a new way of life and allowing time to erode their old national ties.</p><p>Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the resisters have few regrets.</p><p>“It took me a long time to reach this point,” says Jack Todd, “but I’m really proud that I did it. 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Activate your Online Access Now</p></footer></p></p><p>Article content</p><p>But in the wake of the short-lived Iran-Israel war, military officials called in his brother, mother and sister-in-law for hours of interrogation about their Canadian relative. The officials claimed Daniel, who asked that his last name be withheld for security reasons, was a spy for Israel. As evidence, they cited the reports he contributed to Israel Pars, an online TV station catering to Israel’s Farsi-speaking minority.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iran-canada-sleeper-csis-spy-death-threats-human-rights-news-site.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=GFgFvoyMJAqWJBhYwM7zBg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iran-canada-sleeper-csis-spy-death-threats-human-rights-news-site.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=QT67-tV993TD3P4xEvC3ug, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iran-canada-sleeper-csis-spy-death-threats-human-rights-news-site.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=nsxvVZdWMwANnrmxHJexoA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iran-canada-sleeper-csis-spy-death-threats-human-rights-news-site.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=DlZzm2R4YPSD_YWD1Sp_FQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iran-canada-sleeper-csis-spy-death-threats-human-rights-news-site.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=xIoljhckKBsPlyzV7APcxQ, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iran-canada-sleeper-csis-spy-death-threats-human-rights-news-site.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=o0J-_L6GfRzHv2D9xOtkjw" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Toronto-area dentist Hamed Esmaeilion appeared (bottom middle) in Iranian news site Farheekhtegan’s feature last October, headlined “United Iran Against Murderers.” Photo by Farheekhtegan</p><p><p><p><img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/16.1.1/websites/images/newsletters/logo/icon-channelIsrael.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Channel Israel</p><p>Columnist Jesse Kline keeps you up to date with what’s happening in Israel and the effects of antisemitism on life here in Canada. Friday mornings.</p></p><p><form><p>There was an error, please provide a valid email address.</p>Sign Up</form><p>By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.</p><p>Thanks for signing up!</p><p>A welcome email is on its way. If you don"t see it, please check your junk folder.</p><p>The next issue of Channel Israel will soon be in your inbox.</p><p>We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again</p><p>Interested in more newsletters? Browse here.</p></p></p><p>Article content</p><p>“They told my brother, ‘We know where he is, where he is living with his family, and we are going to execute him,’ ” Daniel quoted his relatives as telling him by phone. “ ’We got the order from the court to execute him.’ ”</p><p>Daniel, who has a wife and two-year-old boy, takes the officials’ violent threat seriously.</p><p>“I don’t care about myself. (But) I have been living in a state of fear because of my son. If something happened to me his life really would be destroyed.”</p><p>It may be an extreme case, but such dread is not uncommon within Canada’s Iranian diaspora, a group estimated to number 400,000 people. As Iran once more becomes a focal point of Middle East tensions, many Iranian Canadians live with a troubling anxiety.</p><p>They typically emigrated to escape a system marked by rampant human-rights abuses, stifling censorship and harshly enforced religious edicts. Now some feel like they never truly left the Islamic Republic behind.</p><p>Article content</p><p>No Iranian official has been based here since Canada cut off diplomatic ties in 2012. But there are numerous reports of intimidation of Canadians who speak out against the regime, evidence of planned kidnapping and assassination plots — at least one contracted out to Hell’s Angels — a steady stream of senior Iranian government figures entering Canada, and suspicions of widespread money laundering by the regime and its proxies.</p><p>A would-be Conservative candidate for Parliament believes a nomination contest was tainted by misinformation orchestrated by Iran. And a prominent human-rights lawyer even warned that Iranian sleeper cells may be activated in the recent war’s aftermath. Anita Anand, Canada’s foreign affairs minister, said she shared Irwin Cotler’s concern.</p><p>The Iranian-Canadian experience has been double-edged: it’s an impressive immigration success story, unfolding under a dark shadow cast from 10,000 kilometres away.</p><p>“I was supposed to live in Canada in safety, in peace, enjoying my life, enjoying my freedoms,” said Ardeshir Zarezadeh, a Toronto legal advisor and human-rights activist who spent years in prison in Iran. “But in Canada itself we can’t live in peace and freedom.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>Even those who lost loved ones in Iran’s shooting down of an airliner packed with Canadian citizens and permanent residents have felt Tehran’s grip, citing threatening calls and demands to stay quiet.</p><p>The Iranian newspaper Farheekhtegan — Farsi for intellectuals — published a full-page spread last October headlined by the statement “United Iran against the murderers.” The piece featured photos of six alleged “murderers” with targets superimposed over their faces. They included then-U.S. vice president Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli defence minister at the time, and Reza Pahlavi, son of the late Shah of Iran. The sixth person? Hamed Esmaeilion, a Toronto dentist.</p><p>I call it the borderless empire of terror and fear.</p><p>Hamed Esmaeilion</p><p>The Canadian citizen has been an outspoken critic of the regime but, he says with a wry laugh, “I have never murdered anybody.” Esmaeilion can state without question, though, that Tehran killed his wife and nine-year-old daughter. They were on Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752, shot down by Iran just outside Tehran in 2020. Iran says it was an accident; family members and others suspect the attack was deliberate.</p><p>“I call it the borderless empire of terror and fear,” says Esmaeilion of Iran’s worldwide tentacles.</p><p>Article content</p><p>At the same time, Iranian Canadians subjected to harassment and worried about a steady stream of regime officials settling in or visiting Canada, say security services don’t pay enough heed to their complaints.</p><p>“I would argue Canada is the most infiltrated country in the western world,” says Alireza Nader, a Washington, D.C.-based Iran analyst who prepared a study on Tehran’s interference in Canada for the conservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “Canada is actually well-known as a haven for the regime. People (in the Iranian community) joke about it. It is part of the popular culture.”</p><p>RCMP spokesman Marie-Eve Breton declined to say how many complaints it has received about interference from Iran or to detail how it responds to them, citing “operational reasons.” That said, the Mounties take threats “very seriously” and will investigate if there is a suspicion of criminal or other illegal activity, she said.</p><p>But the diaspora that has grown up here since the 1979 Islamic revolution — full of professionals, entrepreneurs and academics — is not unanimous in its dim view of the Iranian government. Some groups have tended to avoid stiff criticism of Tehran, and sometimes echoed its viewpoints.</p><p>Article content</p><p>A rally against Israeli attacks last month — called “Hands-off Iran” — included people waving the Islamic Republic flag, a symbol of oppression to some expatriates. Competing vigils for the PS752 victims in 2020 — one involving regime critics, the other factions more sympathetic to Tehran — ended in a physical fight that required police intervention.</p><p>Organizations like the Iranian Canadian Congress (ICC), a co-sponsor of Hands-off Iran, have been accused of being apologists for the Islamic Republic. The ICC denies the charge and says it simply wants peace, the end to sanctions against Iran and restoration of Canada-Iran diplomatic ties.</p><p>“Iranian Canadian activists who oppose military action or sanctions, citing their detrimental impact on the Iranian populace and regional peace and stability, are frequently discredited by hardline political factions,” the ICC told the federal Foreign Interference Commission. “These factions prioritize regime change in Tehran over all else, disregarding both Canada’s interests and the potential harm that increased instability may inflict on the people of Iran.”</p><p>Complicating the divisions right now are events in the Middle East. Even some staunch opponents of the Iranian regime and its allies like Hamas and Hezbollah are disturbed by the Gaza war. After Iranian-backed Hamas crossed over from the strip and massacred 1,200 Israelis, Israel’s armed forces responded with operations that have killed more than 50,000 Palestinian fighters and civilians and laid waste to much of the territory.</p><p>Article content</p><p>There are “mixed feelings,” says Esmaeilion.</p><p>And the exchange of missiles and drones between Iran and Israel, combined with the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, has triggered a vicious crackdown by Tehran on alleged “spies” and dissidents, noted Zarezadeh.</p><p>“Weakening the regime is good, but what’s next?” he asks. “If this is going to create a lot of damage (to the democracy movement) … mass executions … what is the point?”</p><p>Like so many other burgeoning ethnic communities in Canada, Iranians were a rare presence here for most of the 20th century. But that began to change as the revolution transformed their homeland into a theocratic state steered by unelected clerics.</p><p>First came people seeking political asylum, then middle-class strivers wanting a freer, more enriching life, especially for women whose existence is tightly constricted in Iran.</p><p>Many have settled in Vancouver and its suburbs, but the greatest concentration live in the northern reaches of the Greater Toronto Area. The enclave is predictably nicknamed Tehranto, the main streets in some neighbourhoods lined with Iranian restaurants and other businesses.</p><p>The group includes a surprising number of high achievers. Esmaeilion says he knew of a couple hundred dentists of Iranian extraction in Canada when he emigrated in 2010. Now they number well over 1,000, he said. “You can say the same thing about medical doctors, you can say the same about lawyers, about engineers.”</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pjt-kaveh-shahrooz-11_297183612.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=8dNlE9M-W7LDclqOlutstg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pjt-kaveh-shahrooz-11_297183612.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=ynrdzfFKWkJNJIqEG8jHoA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pjt-kaveh-shahrooz-11_297183612.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=LTG7FhzLO1mTJzI1k4Yn2w, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pjt-kaveh-shahrooz-11_297183612.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=VX3Y0Wu_dJJ0SR7DAVYThw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pjt-kaveh-shahrooz-11_297183612.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=T7hvfEARIVp-5K89DpLTbA, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pjt-kaveh-shahrooz-11_297183612.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=deswcWTg5L60UyxiPtOhQg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Kaveh Shahrooz, lawyer and senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, at his home in Toronto, July 11, 2025. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post<p>The make-up of the diaspora is partly a result of “selection bias,” says lawyer Kaveh Shahrooz, a rights activist in Toronto. Many are people who had the wherewithal and money to get out of Iran, while Canadian laws in the past favoured newcomers who could invest sizeable sums here, he said. Plus, the culture promotes education and career success.</p><p>Shahrooz believes the most recent waves include many people who did well economically under the Ayatollahs and retain a sympathy for the regime or even continued business links in Iran. Esmaeilion disagrees. If anything, he argues, the newest arrivals are more disenchanted than anyone about the Islamic autocracy.</p><p>There’s a lack of polling data breaking down exactly what portion of Iranian Canadians are staunch opponents of the Iranian regime. But critics insist it’s the majority, even if many are too afraid to speak out. The dissidents cite in part two rallies held in 2022. They supported protests in Iran over the death in custody of a young woman arrested for wearing an insufficiently modest hijab. Both “Woman Life Freedom” events in the Greater Toronto area attracted an estimated 50,000 people — a significant chunk of local Iranian Canadians — while cities across Canada held smaller demonstrations, noted Zarezadeh.</p><p>Article content</p><p>The Iranian Canadian Congress did not respond to requests for comment by deadline, but it has noted that a petition calling for renewed diplomatic relations with Iran gathered 16,000 signatures; one opposing the idea only a few hundred.</p><p>Still, for those Canadians who do publicly criticize the regime, the consequences can be chilling.</p><p>Weakening the regime is good, but what’s next?</p><p>Ardeshir Zarezadeh</p><p>A 2021 U.S. indictment accused Iranian intelligence operatives of planning to kidnap and fly to Iran Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad. The same group, prosecutors said, was plotting to snatch three unnamed Canadian opponents of the regime. The FBI has since charged multiple people tied to Iran with conspiring to actually assassinate Alinejad.</p><p>Last year, U.S. attorneys indicted two Canadian Hell’s Angels members, accusing them of working at the behest of Iranian intelligence to assassinate dissidents in Maryland.</p><p>The Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s most recent annual report says it continues to investigate “credible intelligence” about death threats against Canadians emanating from Iran, often using proxies like organized crime figures. The targets are “perceived enemies” living abroad, and the threats to Canadians may increase as tensions heighten in the Middle East, said the spy agency.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Iran also uses “malicious cyber activity” to repress and manipulate Canada-based opponents, the CSIS report said.</p><p>In its submissions to the Foreign Interference Commission, the Iranian Canadian Congress did not dwell on actions by Tehran. It focused insteadon threats it says it and similar groups face closer to home, saying it should be “protected from information wars organized by media outlets established with foreign investments by authoritarian or democratic states.”</p><p>But individual Iranian Canadians have reported first-hand experience with a range of intimidation by Tehran.</p><p>Ardeshir Zarezadeh, the Toronto legal advisor, says he spent a total of seven years in prison, including two in solitary confinement, for helping organize student protests and the like in Iran. He fled through mountains to Turkey and ended up here in 2006. But he continues to be dogged by the regime, he says.</p><p>A suspicious Iranian man called from a pay phone, then showed up unannounced at his office in 2019. Zarezadeh notified both the RCMP and FBI. The Americans responded promptly, informing him that his visitor was an Iranian intelligence officer. Zerezadeh says he never heard back from the Mounties.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Then in 2022, he said Iranian intelligence contacted a friend of his, demanding the friend turn over Zerezadeh’s home address or see all his business interests in Iran destroyed.</p><p>Esmaeilion lost his family in Iran’s destruction of flight PS752 but he says that hasn’t stopped the regime from targeting him.</p><p>His 76-year-old father was interrogated for two hours in May 2024 about his son’s activities in Canada, while his parents were banned from leaving Iran for a year. Esmaeilion’s mother finally made it here earlier this year but after she returned to Iran two months ago, her passport was seized again.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iran-canada-sleeper-csis-spy-death-threats-human-rights-intimidation-esmaeilion.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=fKRxV2lWe3eX9glAURFUaw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iran-canada-sleeper-csis-spy-death-threats-human-rights-intimidation-esmaeilion.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=2cZAswp-S-XSRZcu726UqA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iran-canada-sleeper-csis-spy-death-threats-human-rights-intimidation-esmaeilion.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=S3WZoMdaEZKy_C9FYz8sIg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iran-canada-sleeper-csis-spy-death-threats-human-rights-intimidation-esmaeilion.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=6bEhCzs--3DFHwPWurLGdA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iran-canada-sleeper-csis-spy-death-threats-human-rights-intimidation-esmaeilion.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=k09dvAD6fZdNuQBqVgUigA, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iran-canada-sleeper-csis-spy-death-threats-human-rights-intimidation-esmaeilion.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=TTQBxFjEzAfo5oJoZrg1-Q" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Hamed Esmaeilion, who lost his wife and daughter in Iran’s shooting down of a passenger jet full of Canadians in 2020, said he and other Canadian critics of the Islamic Republic are often subject to threats and intimidation from Tehran. Photo by Babak Payami<p>Esmaeilion posted on X in 2023 when the community discovered by chance that Seyed Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi — a former Iranian health minister — was on vacation in Canada, even as Iran continued to evade accountability for the plane shoot-down. While in Toronto, the minister did an interview with Iranian media in which he vowed retaliation against Esmaeilion and others whose posts had interrupted his holiday. The federal government eventually banned Hashemi from entering Canada for 36 months, but Esmaeilion says police told him they could do nothing about the threat.</p><p>Shahrooz said he often receives threats online and gets regular warnings from Google that state-based actors have been trying to hack into his accounts. After he did an interview with the Voice of America’s Farsi-language service, relatives in Iran were taken in for interrogation about him.</p><p>Article content</p><p>But he considers his experience last year campaigning for the Conservative nomination in the federal riding of Richmond Hill as particularly troubling. He had not even officially announced he was running for the candidacy when posts started proliferating online that falsely accused him of being a member of Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), the anti-regime group that Canada once designated as a terrorist entity. It’s widely unpopular with both regime opponents and supporters.</p><p>The smear campaign had an organized tone to it and included references to a particular relative who had been a MEK member, a fact that few people without access to Iranian security files would know, says Shahrooz.</p><p>“My name would trend on Twitter, for example, twice in a week — because I’m running for a nomination in a suburb of Toronto. It doesn’t make any sense unless there is an organized cyber army of Iran’s regime working to undermine me.”</p><p>He says Conservative Party officials were not receptive to his reports of intimidation and when they closed the nomination race early, before he had time to sign up many of the crucial new members, the Harvard law graduate ended his run.</p><p>Mariyam Shafipour was a prominent student activist in Iran and spent two years in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, making her way to Canada after being released.</p><p>Article content</p><p>She’s continued her opposition here, resulting in the intimidation of her sisters by Iranian security services, she told the Human Rights Talks podcast earlier this year. And there have been ominous signs of not just digital, but physical surveillance here in Canada.</p><p>Officials of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which Canada designated as terrorist last year, told one of her sisters that Shafipour’s apartment overlooked a school and that she owned three cats, she told CBC TV in 2022. Both were accurate observations.</p><p>Such experiences help explain deep concern in the community about another phenomenon. Current or former officials of the regime routinely seem to show up in Canada, while some refugee claimants and relatives of ordinary people — including family of the PS752 victims — are regularly denied visitor visas.</p><p>Zarezadeh said he’s received numerous reports of former IRGC officials entering Canada, which he plans to pass on to authorities. Vancouver lawyer Mojdeh Shahriari has said she’s collected hundreds of reports of various senior officials obtaining Canadian visas.</p><p>Nader, the Washington-based analyst, said he was shocked to learn that Mahdi Nasiri, the head of hard-line newspaper Kayhan in late-1990s Iran, then an adviser to the government, had arrived in Canada earlier this spring. Nasiri told CBC News that he’d been a critic of the regime for six years and was a “liberal” now. Nader and other regime critics were doubtful.</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/screen-shot-2022-02-10-at-1.46.11-pm_90355404.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=kZ5NgJb9HNyINCGo3TJjyQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/screen-shot-2022-02-10-at-1.46.11-pm_90355404.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=FdbTLtM4P1f6TxK6sdv44g, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/screen-shot-2022-02-10-at-1.46.11-pm_90355404.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=zNKg5MqETZjUeSmvvg6CYw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/screen-shot-2022-02-10-at-1.46.11-pm_90355404.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=OWf46gBMbhYhstJaCUFMag, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/screen-shot-2022-02-10-at-1.46.11-pm_90355404.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=AepMtLpXX9pNfJ2QLDEXlQ, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/screen-shot-2022-02-10-at-1.46.11-pm_90355404.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=XosoWifRDB_aLWAw4agwgA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Morteza Talaei (in green T-shirt) at a gym in Richmond Hill, Ont. Iranian ex-pats and human-rights groups are voicing outrage that Canada allowed entry to Talaei, a former Tehran police chief linked to various human-rights abuses. Photo by Abdollah Abdi/ Abdimedia<p>Morteza Talaei, who as Tehran police chief oversaw a crackdown on women’s dress and took part in the bloody response to student protests in 1999, was spotted in Richmond Hill, north of Toronto, three years ago. Critics accused him of rank hypocrisy, with video showing him exercising in a local gym next to women in workout outfits, public attire he would have considered criminal in his old job.</p><p>The federal government is trying to stem the tide. A law passed in 2022 and updated last year now bars entry to Canada of anyone who was a senior Iranian official as far back as 2003. And there seems no shortage of cases.</p><p>Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada has cancelled 131 visas under the law, while Canada Border Services Agency has opened 115 investigations. Half of those were deemed to not be senior officials, but the rest are still being reviewed or enforcement action taken, said Luke Reimer, a CBSA spokesman.</p><p>The agency has reported 20 alleged senior officials who are in Canada for inadmissibility hearings. But as of June, only three had been ordered deported — and one of those actually removed from the country, Reimer said.</p><p>Coupled with the arrival of figures from the Iranian government are fears of rampant money laundering. The proliferation of money-exchange services in Iranian-Canadian neighbourhoods underscores the problem, says Esmaeilion. One such business told a friend that it processes millions of dollars in transfers to and from Iran every day, he said.</p><p>Article content</p><p>National Post was unable to verify that claim. But the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), Ottawa’s anti-money-laundering watchdog, is planning to require financial institutions to more closely monitor cash flowing to and from Iran, the Globe and Mail reported recently. The number of “suspicious transaction reports” involving Iran and filed with the centre is already soaring, to 19,572 in 2024-25, from 6,866 in 2023-24, the Globe said.</p><p><p>Related Stories</p><p> Opinion: Why the Muslim world failed to come to Iran"s defence </p> <p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2221168431.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=webp&sig=4xlWPyulPpA7Kw3rbQ6Q4Q, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2221168431.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=jpg&sig=Cb8S0NlcrWWL1gGXvcK3uQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2221168431.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=webp&sig=M4jgjO31wNpPYB3H8Cv9WA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2221168431.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=jpg&sig=Te0ApHGzICTUhegBho6SbQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2221168431.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=116&type=webp&sig=HpliHCh0TFQ9WEJe4mnVcQ, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2221168431.jpg?quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=bxxdwHeW6QpwjJtcWzkEvA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p> </p> </p><p>All of this — intimidation, frequent visits by regime heavyweights and alleged money laundering — is transpiring 13 years after the Iranian embassy in Canada was shuttered.</p><p>But Daniel, for one, has no doubts about the regime’s ability to function here, with or without an official presence. As he contemplates the Iranian threat to “execute” him, Daniel notes IRGC officials showed his family photographs of him, his wife and son, and knew his correct Canadian address.</p><p>“When I was in Iran, because of my business, I knew a lot of high-level government people. One of those guys one time told me, ‘the hub of spying in North America is in Canada,’” he says, a suggestion the Post could not independently verify. “They have the financial support, they have the people to support them. 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But these are not the ice-pick-through-the-eye-socket lobotomies of the past<p>No opening of the cranium, no cutting into the brain, no blood. Today"s precise psychosurgery presents options for patients with treatment-resistant disorders</p><p><p>Author of the article:</p> Sharon Kirkey </p><p>Published Jul 15, 2025 • Last updated 5days ago • 22 minute read</p><p> <p><svg><mask></mask><g></g></svg></p> <p>Join the conversation <vf-conversations-count></vf-conversations-count></p> <p><p><p><p>You can save this article by registering for free here. 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Activate your Online Access Now</p></footer></p></p><p>Article content</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-hieronymus-bosch-main-5.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=FeQ_6X1DT85oE8rPHrKDGw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-hieronymus-bosch-main-5.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=V6y9s851fZL_sPOXraMtxQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-hieronymus-bosch-main-5.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=luO66VdX9QkOY0J_yZTopw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-hieronymus-bosch-main-5.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=thrcx9zNI2Nz5Tq1tyqj5A, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-hieronymus-bosch-main-5.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=baMiFA2aulq85_nD2R3asw, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-hieronymus-bosch-main-5.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=eVbynSPiyhl91wW7DMKn-Q" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Detail of a 15th century painting by Hieronymus Bosch, known as The Cure of Folly or The Stone Operation, which is one of the earliest believed representations of trepanation, or making burr holes in a patient’s head to “release” madness.<p>For one brief moment she felt a sudden pain so sharp she cried out. In an MRI chamber, no one hears you scream. Still, Anya refused to squeeze the emergency button clutched in her fingers. “I was adamant I wanted to get through it.”</p><p><p><p><img src="https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/19.1.4/websites/images/newsletters/icon-np-posted.svg" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>NP Posted</p><p>Get a dash of perspective along with the trending news of the day in a very readable format.</p></p><p><form><p>There was an error, please provide a valid email address.</p>Sign Up</form><p>By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.</p><p>Thanks for signing up!</p><p>A welcome email is on its way. If you don"t see it, please check your junk folder.</p><p>The next issue of NP Posted will soon be in your inbox.</p><p>We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again</p><p>Interested in more newsletters? Browse here.</p></p></p><p>Article content</p><p>Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) ruled Anya’s life for six years: Trial after trial of antidepressants and antipsychotics; different combinations of drugs; months of intense therapy. Nothing made a difference. Then the song lyrics started playing in her head. Not an earworm, but a kind of “radio gone wild thing,” she said. The refrains, the fragments of songs, were loud and intrusive and would get stuck in a loop, playing over and over again in her head. The harder she tried not to hear them, the more annoying the snippets grew. She’d hear different music she’d been exposed to over the years — kids’ songs, pop music, songs in languages she knew. The first question the doctors always asked was, could she be hallucinating? Was the music coming from outside of her? “I am 100 per cent aware it is in my head,” she told them. The songs switched with different images or thoughts, like a rapid-fire word association game. She’d look at the sky and hear Coldplay singing, “Cause you’re a sky, cause you’re a sky full of stars.” She’d think of Paris and hear Edith Piaf.</p><p>Article content</p><p>She was certain she was going mad.</p><p>Psychosurgery pulled her back.</p><p>Anya, who asked that her last name not be used to protect her family’s privacy, is a participant in an experimental treatment that is part of a modern-day revival of brain surgery for mental disorders. Psychosurgery is a field with a dark, complicated and messy history that hangs over it still, but is one that practitioners are working hard to rehabilitate.</p><p>Advances in brain imaging, more refined surgical tools and an enhanced understanding of the brain and its structures are moving surgeries to alter brain activity from crude, unregulated and “blind” operations, where surgeons couldn’t see what they were cutting, to more precise, minimally invasive direct-to-brain interventions.</p><p>For some people who’ve run out of all other options, it can mean the difference between being housebound — and living a relatively normal life.</p><p>These aren’t the “ice pick through the eye socket” lobotomies of the postwar 1940s and ‘50s. With magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound capsulotomy — Anya’s surgery — there are no burr holes in the skull. No opening of the cranium, no cutting into the brain, no blood. The helmet-like device surgeons placed over her scalp that January day in 2019 is lined with more than 1,000 ultrasound transducers that emit acoustic waves at frequencies far higher than humans can hear.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Once converged on the target brain circuit, tissue is heated to 60C — a thermal dose sufficient to melt away brain cells and interrupt what scientists have hypothesized is scrambled, hyperactive circuitry within brain networks.</p><p>The brain lesions are tiny, about seven to 10 millimetres, maybe a quarter-inch in diameter, though destroying any bits of a healthy brain is ethically thorny. Psychosurgery’s revival has unnerved critics who remain unconvinced that science can point to a specific neural circuit or clump of neurons and say, “There — therein lies the problem.”</p><p>Depression and OCD are complex human conditions with multiple causes. The “brain-centric” approach oversimplifies the problem, critics say. Procedures that irreversibly alter the brain’s functioning are still viewed as risky and dangerous by a sizable proportion of psychiatrists, Canadian research has shown. “The majority of people with these symptoms, even if severe, do not all have a biologically damaged brain that requires surgical intervention,” said Dr. Stanley Caroff, professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Aside from historic misuse, concerns have also been raised about the potential impact of psychosurgery on a person’s personality, their true, “authentic” self.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-freeman.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=C4rUGLOoJxv_A5_D3vBNOg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-freeman.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=c-pOYFTbcpQ-ueylirl4Kg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-freeman.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=BstaigD9fCeMBQSuDxFzmg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-freeman.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=oq954qTHinozBiwCS3lugw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-freeman.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=0STOo4e0YKaozSXPkwqzAA, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-freeman.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=ZdJFMAEvomJfULDJsfLI0w" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Dr. Walter Freeman performs a lobotomy using an ice pick-like instrument he invented. After inserting the orbitoclast under the patient’s upper eyelid, he then “banged it with a hammer and wiggled it about” to destroy brain tissue. Photo by Bettmann/Getty<p>“When the lobotomists interrupted the connections between the frontal lobes and the rest of the brain, they had speculations about what the underlying biology was,” said sociologist Andrew Scull, a prominent historian of psychiatry. Throughout psychiatry’s history, other remedies for mental illnesses included insulin shock — putting people into comas using insulin to “kill” brain cells that caused schizophrenia — or extracting tonsils and teeth in the belief bacteria and rot lurking in hidden pockets of the body were muddling people’s brains.</p><p>“We don’t even understand the brains of fruit flies very well, and the human brain, with all its trillions of connections, is enormously complex,” Scull said. “The idea that we can locate any form of mental illness here, or there, is simply wrong.”</p><p>Toronto neurosurgeon Nir Lipsman said the last thing he wants to do is reduce a disease as complex as OCD or major depressive disorder down to a single target or single circuit in the brain. Psychosurgery is haunted by a past that harmed many “and left a significant stain on the field,” he said.</p><p>But modern “neuromodulation” therapies that not only change the brain’s structure but its chemical environment and how connections between different parts of the brain are wired, are driven by data from brain-imaging studies conducted over the past 30 years, he said.</p><p>Article content</p><p>“Our ability to visualize the pathways and structures in the brain that drive mood and anxiety disorders is becoming much more refined, much more precise and personalized,” said Lipsman, chief of the Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program and director of the Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Heath Sciences Centre.</p><p>This is no cure, no “one-and-done,” he stressed. People still need medication and therapy post-psychosurgery.</p><p>Focused ultrasound has been used thousands of times the world over for the treatment of neurological-movement disorders such as essential tremor — which causes the hands to shake — and Parkinson’s disease. Evidence from a small number of published studies for severe mental illness is encouraging, Lipsman said.</p><p>Ontario Health recently completed a major assessment of focused ultrasound for OCD. It found that while “considerable uncertainty” remains, the evidence so far suggests the procedure is safe, no serious or persistent side-effects have been reported, and that it may lead to meaningful improvements in symptoms — from extreme to moderate — for people with treatment-resistant OCD.</p><p>The Ontario government is considering providing limited funding to cover focused ultrasound capsulotomy for 110 people with severe OCD over the next five years.</p><p>Article content</p><p>The World Health Organization has ranked OCD among the top 10 most disabling illnesses globally. As many as 40 per cent of those affected don’t respond to first, second, or any conventional therapy. An estimated 15 per cent attempt suicide.</p><p>With OCD, common “sticky” thoughts can revolve around contamination and relentless rituals to avoid dirt and germs, or symmetry — the need for things to be lined up or organized in a precise way so that everything feels just right.</p><p>Forbidden and taboo obsessions are especially harrowing. People may have violent thoughts or urges about “smothering a baby, throwing somebody off a balcony, driving a car the wrong way,” psychiatrist Dr. Peggy Richter, inaugural head of the Frederick W. Thompson Anxiety Disorders Centre at Sunnybrook, Canada’s sole in-patient program for severe OCD, told a public forum last fall.</p><p>Some have disturbing sexual thoughts; some have religious obsessions: if I don’t pray a certain way or a certain number of times a day, I’ll be damned forever.</p><p>Brain surgery for mental illness sounds like a drastic measure. Today’s leaders in the field say no one is taking it lightly. History’s often-gruesome lobotomies were unregulated and “certainly not guided by any of the key principles that we hold so near and dear today, including surgical sterility, careful patient selection and close followup,” Lipsman said.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-lipsman-sunnybrook-main-3.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=nIE0SbeanJqQlSdSiaVkhQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-lipsman-sunnybrook-main-3.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=e5Ka1OevyuhuvxOdf3uGXA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-lipsman-sunnybrook-main-3.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=6eU-FEf3FHIOw5oKRI78FQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-lipsman-sunnybrook-main-3.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=4lGRQ1pOoAXRqi-hvmRPlw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-lipsman-sunnybrook-main-3.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=MC8k9k2qdbQj23OtfJfFPQ, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-lipsman-sunnybrook-main-3.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=QD7kXZYQ38eFRhhm3FrQNA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Dr. Nir Lipsman, chief of the Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program and Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, is seeing results with psychosurgery using a Focused Ultrasound Helmet, the device at left, and an MRI for patients with treatment-resistant OCD. Photo by Nick Kozak/National Post<p>“We’re seeing a renewed acceptability of surgery for highly refractory psychiatric conditions,” he said.</p><p>OCD and depression are measured using crude scales. The more symptoms and severity, the higher the score. In a recently published study involving 15 patients with treatment-resistant OCD, and 10 with major depressive disorder, Lipsman and colleagues reported that OCD scores were significantly reduced 12 months after focused ultrasound capsulotomy; 50 per cent of patients met the criteria for treatment response, seeing at least a 35 per cent reduction in anxiety scores.</p><p>For severe OCD, a 35 per cent improvement in symptoms can mean going back to a job or school, Lipsman said. “It means reintegrating into a life they were otherwise totally disconnected from.”</p><p>However, for those in the study with depression, the reduction in scores after focused ultrasound wasn’t significant. Lipsman said the brain targets may need to be different for depression, reflecting a differing underlying circuitry.</p><p>So far, Lipsman’s group has performed focused ultrasound on about 40 people with OCD or depression — about one per month. Psychiatrists are slowly opening to referring patients who might qualify. “There is definitely demand out there,” he said.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Still, he knows the challenges for psychosurgery’s resurrection.</p><p>In its heyday, lobotomy was hailed as one of the most remarkable surgical innovations of its generation.</p>* * <p>The quest for a cure for mental illness, a psychiatric Holy Grail, has seduced doctors through the ages. Renaissance artists such as Hieronymus Bosch depicted people having hypothetical “stones” of madness surgically extracted from their brains. Human skulls dating back to the Mesolithic period show evidence of trepanation — holes drilled, cut or scraped into the scalp to treat fractured skulls or the ousting of “evil spirits.”</p><p>Trepanations didn’t stop with Stone Age tools.</p><p>The leucotome is a simple surgical instrument. Invented by Canadian neurosurgeon Dr. Kenneth McKenzie, the leucotome consists of a needle with a retractable wire loop that, when inserted and rotated in the brain, can scoop out cores of white matter from inside the frontal lobe.</p><p>In 1936, Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz used a leucotome to perform a prefrontal leucotomy. A year earlier, Moniz had been captivated by a presentation at a London neuroscience congress: A Yale scientist named John Fulton discussed his results performing a frontal lobotomy — removal or disconnection of the frontal lobes, the parts of the brain concerned with behaviour and personality — on Becky and Lucy, two chimpanzees. The lobotomy appeared to make the apes “more cooperative and willing to accomplish tasks.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>Moniz returned home bent on experimenting on chimps as well as humans. He posited that the frontal lobes housed the anatomical roots of “pathological psychic activity,” as researchers described in the American Journal of Psychiatry. They “needed to be severed from the rest of the brain for cure.”</p><p>At the time, there were few effective treatments for schizophrenia or severe psychosis. Antipsychotic drugs had yet to be introduced, and patients were shut away and forgotten in overcrowded state hospitals or asylums.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-leucotome.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=xcpr3GT74V6xeE7TLQZqdw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-leucotome.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=Hp_1U-KqRxpsgEHZ2kYFAg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-leucotome.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=zEeVYkSfPi-ctp1iUKXJrA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-leucotome.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=fdmJAU7bUCdoE9DWRZJZeA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-leucotome.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=niVuwwyze4x1gb8yjPHygw, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-leucotome.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=tiaDGkSRipoYMsvFww8Eww" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>McKenzie’s leucotome, invented by Canadian neurosurgeon Dr. Kenneth G. McKenzie in the 1940s. Photo by Museum of Health Care<p>Lobotomy was meant to be an operation of last resort. Moniz eventually won a Nobel Prize for his contributions to the field.</p><p>Walter J. Freeman, however, wanted a speedier and easier way into the brain that didn’t require a neurosurgeon, drill or operating room. Freeman was a mid-20th century American theoretical neurologist and lobotomy crusader. He was also “abrasive, arrogant and egotistical,” a huckster and all-around “hard man to like,” Scull wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2005.</p><p>It was Freeman who championed the lobotomy in the United States, along with a novel way of performing it. After stumbling across an obscure article by an Italian neurosurgeon who discovered the quickest way into the frontal lobes was via the eye orbits — given how thin the bone there was and how easily it could be perforated with a sharp instrument — Freeman revolutionized the “transorbital lobotomy.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>His chosen instruments were an orbitoclast, which his son would later tell PBS looked very much like the ice pick in the family freezer, and a mallet.</p><p>“So, Freeman took an ice pick and a hammer, gave the patients two or three electric shocks to make them unconscious, peeled back the eyelid, shoved the point of the ice pick into the bone, banged it with a hammer and wiggled it about,” obliterating bits of brain tissue as he moved the orbitoclast side to side, said Scull, author of Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness.</p><p>Freeman travelled the U.S. and the United Kingdom, demonstrating the technique like a carny at a country fair, once performing two dozen in a single afternoon in front of a medical audience, “many of whom passed out,” Scull said. Freeman, who wasn’t a surgeon, acknowledged his unorthodox approach offended a real brain surgeon’s idea of “neatness and precision.” He performed lobotomies without gloves, gowns or masks, in the hallways and rooms of mental health hospitals, even in barns.</p><p>He ultimately operated on more than 3,000 people between 1936 and 1956. Freeman lobotomized children as young as four. One of his patients, Howard Dully, a former San Jose, Calif., bus driver who died earlier this year, was given a lobotomy by Freeman when he was 12 years old at the request of a woman his father married after his own mother died of cancer. The stepmom, who hated Dully, found him a nuisance and complained to Freeman he was “unbelievably defiant.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>Freeman claimed most of his patients improved enough to be let out of hospital. In fact, his lobotomies rendered many into a state of inertia, apathy and indifference. Some ended up dead. John F. Kennedy’s sister, Rosemary, was a patient of Freeman’s. Rosemary, who struggled to keep up with other kids in school and was prone to emotional outbursts as she grew older, underwent a lobotomy in 1943 when she was 23, a surgery that left her mentally incapacitated until her death at age 86.</p><p>In Canada, neurosurgeons performed lobotomies at the behest of psychiatrists. One followup study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) involving 116 patients lobotomized in Toronto from 1948 to 1952 found 61 per cent living outside of hospital at 10 years after brain surgery.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-rosemary-kennedy.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=vZWhL4sXTVqaPmhrifmKhA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-rosemary-kennedy.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=U694hvXp0UvLOifiJyrp0g, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-rosemary-kennedy.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=NS4u1rwGuTnfDN52x6JFzA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-rosemary-kennedy.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=UZU0A1W_mG1Dhm2MBt6luA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-rosemary-kennedy.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=sYhqQZ7RV3mqXJTpXtRgXg, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-rosemary-kennedy.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=eWTufvl8d1RwaErJ2vE80Q" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Dr. Walter Freeman’s patients included John F. Kennedy’s sister, Rosemary, who was left mentally incapacitated at 23 after undergoing the procedure in 1941. Photo by Angus McBean<p>However, there were also some serious undesired outcomes. Complications included epilepsy (occurring in 12 per cent of patients treated) and significant personality defects in nearly all patients (91 per cent). It wasn’t known to leave people blind. The orbitoclast was inserted beside the eyeball, not through it.</p><p>Researchers accepted that the side-effects were a tolerable trade-off.</p><p>Later, however, another study published in CMAJ in 1964 came to the “inescapable” conclusion that a prefrontal leucotomy didn’t lead to any significant differences in the rates of hospital discharge between 183 patients who had received a lobotomy versus a comparison group spared the surgery.</p><p>Article content</p><p>The finding contrasted sharply with Freeman’s assurances that his lobotomies restored people with disabling psychoses to a “better social existence.” People were more tolerant, Freeman would write, with less tendency to worry over trifling stuff.</p><p>A significantly disproportionate number — roughly 60 to 80 per cent — of those lobotomized were women who were often seen by the men in their lives as hysterical nuisances. “It was also mostly male doctors at the time putting forward the idea that a lobotomy would make them better,” said University of British Columbia neuroethicist Judy Illes.</p><p>“Even Freeman conceded not many patients retained their initiative and higher mental functions, but they could be a housewife or sit prettily at the dinner table,” Scull said. As one husband once reported back to Freeman, “My God, Doctor, you should have operated on her 30 years ago.”</p><p>More than 30,000 lobotomies were ultimately performed in the U.S. As many as 15 per cent experienced a brain hemorrhage or death. Lobotomies were not only visited upon those in state asylums hidden in the countryside. There were also major lobotomy programs at private hospitals, as well as at Yale University, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Even Freeman conceded not many patients retained their initiative and higher mental functions, but they could be a housewife or sit prettily at the dinner table</p><p>Andrew Scull, sociologist</p><p>Lobotomies had variable results, Scull said. Some of the better ones involved people with OCD. “We think of the worst human vegetables. Not everybody turned out like that. The ‘successful’ cases were few and far between. But they did exist.”</p><p>To Scull, Freeman was a moral monster. “He thought he had the key. For me, that’s not an excuse to do what he did, and do it over a very, very long period.”</p> * <p>Lobotomies flourished until the introduction of the antipsychotic chlorpromazine (marketed under the brand name Thorazine) in the 1950s. Today, antipsychotics and antidepressants are among the most prescribed drugs in medicine. Over 2.5 billion tablets and capsules of antidepressants were dispensed in Canada alone in 2023, a 26 per cent increase over 2019, according to IQVIA, a health analytics company.</p><p>Drugs known as SSRIs, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class that includes Prozac and Paxil and is part of the first-line treatment for OCD and depression, account for roughly 80 per cent of prescriptions filled for antidepressants.</p><p>Antidepressants provide relief for many. They can be life-saving. “But brain adaptations can make them hard to stop,” particularly after long-term use, researchers with the Therapeutics Initiative at the University of British Columbia recently warned. Withdrawal symptoms such as akathisia — the inability to keep still — and suicidality have been downplayed, they said. A common complaint is that SSRIs can make people feel emotionally blunted. They can also carry significant sexual side-effects, including low desire or arousal.</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-andrew-scull-psychiatry.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=xoOyVGA3NE2YbOWk7c-m5g, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-andrew-scull-psychiatry.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=ITESZjtFBt8qyCj0KvMIXw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-andrew-scull-psychiatry.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=x_S6f2971m3hPttHZnuo9w, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-andrew-scull-psychiatry.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=AYK5nqPhPEVS9FU1KWpDZw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-andrew-scull-psychiatry.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=gIwxvjNmyFt8TCX5KGU9rw, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-andrew-scull-psychiatry.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=xg4OnFg_8xJipmbTelZbSQ" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>“The human brain, with all its trillions of connections, is enormously complex … The idea that we can locate any form of mental illness is wrong,” says Andrew Scull, a historian of psychiatry. Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images<p>Like psychosurgeries, antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs alter how the brain functions — except they’re reversible. And while focused ultrasound might not require cutting into the scalp or drilling holes in the skull, it’s still invasive, UBC’s Illes said, “because we are permanently removing tissue.”</p><p>While Scull said he’d be astonished if there wasn’t a biological component to major mental illnesses, biology alone doesn’t explain it, “and in some ways, that whole distinction between the biological and social is really a false dichotomy,” he said.</p><p>We’re born with a brain, but our brain remains plastic much longer than originally believed, he said. “And how your brain rewires itself as you experience the world is the product of our social and psychological environment and experiences, as well as biology.”</p><p>Neuroethicist Illes agrees that there’s likely not one locus of mental illness, no one spot in the brain for mental disorder X, Y or Z. “Mental illness is a really complex experience that is both biologic and personal and sociological and experiential and cultural,” she said.</p><p>“Today we have excellent oversight by our institutional organizations,” Illes said. There’s a worldwide focus on the ethics of neurotechnology; Illes served on a UNESCO expert advisory group developing a governance framework for emerging neurotechnologies such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip and other brain-computer interfaces.</p><p>Article content</p><p>The discovery of psychiatric drugs didn’t put a total end to psychiatric brain surgery. While the lobotomy’s popularity plunged as the grislier risks became known, psychosurgeries transitioned in the 1970s from the “quick and crude” to regulated interventions driven by advances that allow doctors to map the human brain in three dimensions and achieve millimetre-scale precision.</p><p>When I see patients in clinic, they often tell me this is their last resort</p><p>Nir Lipsman, neurosurgeon</p><p>In addition to focused ultrasound, surgical brain modulation options today include deep brain stimulation (DBS), which uses electrodes inserted deep into the brain to deliver low-voltage electricity to specific clumps of neurons to reset or activate certain circuits. In 2018, Lipsman performed DBS on Dr. Frank Plummer, the renowned former head of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory, in one of the first North American uses of DBS for chronic and compulsive heavy drinking.</p><p>Plummer was addicted to booze, scotch in particular, and was “waiting to die” — rehab, counselling and group meetings failed to keep him from drinking, and a transplanted liver was giving out — when Sunnybrook surgeons drilled two nickel-sized holes in his head and planted electrodes deep inside his brain. In 2019, one year out from surgery, Plummer told the National Post he was enjoying life for the first time in a very long while.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Plummer died suddenly of a heart attack in 2020 while travelling in Kenya, where he’d led groundbreaking studies in HIV and AIDS.</p><p>Deep brain stimulation is still an invasive surgery. The electrodes need to be implanted into the brain via burr holes drilled into the top of the skull, increasing the risk of infections, brain hemorrhages and other complications. The electrodes are fragile and can malfunction. And, in sham-controlled experiments where electrodes are implanted in some patients but never switched on, DBS for depression has yet to demonstrate significant improvements over those not stimulated.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-frank-plummer.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=4iyFX0gul4Ul7uYONI49zA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-frank-plummer.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=WHt5NN6pOPANbab4wDI5WQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-frank-plummer.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=oZLJX4IFOcCW8tIOvQG2ng, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-frank-plummer.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=eCcVuN4pniDeMFr7u7MxkA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-frank-plummer.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=LfR_93-DW6m1JuU-S3Kx2Q, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-frank-plummer.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=RviZn4THfO3Sm1l9BJYIlA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Dr. Frank Plummer, the renowned former head of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory, turned to deep brain stimulation in 2018 after rehab, counselling and group meetings failed to curb his chronic and compulsive heavy drinking. Photo by John Woods/The Canadian Press<p>Radiofrequency ablation is another route, and the most established, but requires making holes in the skull, inserting electrodes and heating the tip to generate a permanent lesion. “We can now generate those lesions entirely non-invasively with focused ultrasound through the skull, with the patient in an MRI scanner,” Lipsman said.</p><p>Looking back, Anya figures they were generating the lesions when she felt that sharp jolt of pain in her head.</p><p>It’s hard for her to put her finger on exactly when her OCD emerged. Her childhood was a happy one. The earliest hint something off was happening came toward the end of high school, when she started to get “hyper fixated” on things. She had weird secret rituals she hid from her parents, like waiting until the time was a multiple of five — 5:15 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. — before unlocking her laptop.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Things went off the rails in university after a long-distance romance ended. She developed insomnia, racing thoughts and panic attacks. She landed in emergency three times before eventually being connected to a psychiatrist who diagnosed OCD.</p><p>Deciding she no longer wanted to be “pushed around” by her compulsive rituals, she abruptly stopped them, like an addict going cold turkey, “which probably wasn’t a good idea,” she said. OCD has two components: the obsessions, and the rituals to ease the anxiety of those obsessions. “When your brain is habituated to those patterns and compulsive behaviours, you must eliminate them gradually,” she said.</p><p>That’s when the earworms started, “and that’s when I got really freaked out.”</p><p>No one knows what drives musical obsessions in people with OCD. With OCD, the brain circuits driving concerns, fears and anxieties get stuck, like a car in a certain gear or a record skipping incessantly, Lipsman said. The structures are in overdrive. Surgical treatments such as focused ultrasound aim to stop the cycle and reduce the intensity over time.</p><p>For Anya, it felt like her last hope.</p> * *<p>OCD typically comes in the late teens to 20s, though it can also appear in childhood. Kids might worry about their toys getting dirty or they wash their hands excessively. It usually goes away but recurs with puberty.</p><p>Article content</p><p>“It can appear out of the blue, but when you ask a patient and do a thorough history, you often hear, ‘Well, you know, when I was a kid, I used to worry that if I didn’t line my toys up a certain way something terrible might happen to my mother,” said University of Calgary psychiatrist Beverly Adams.</p><p>Compulsive cleanliness is common. Some people get obsessed with checking that things are turned off: the stove is off, the doors are locked, the faucets turned off, the windows shut. Leaving the house can become a frightening ordeal to avoid.</p><p>There can be chronic doubting, chronic counting, chronic organizing and reorganizing of the home, behaviours that can eat up hours of the day. “And sometimes they have these obsessive thoughts that if they haven’t done something the correct way or there isn’t proper symmetry, something bad might happen, some sort of negative outcome,” Adams said.</p><p>Some have sexual obsessions. One of the most unusual themes Adams has encountered is the number of young girls who think they are pedophiles. “It makes no sense at all, and they’re aware of that.” Insight is one of the hallmarks of OCD. “They know that this is a ridiculous thought, but they can’t stop worrying about it.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>One of the most common times of onset in women is around the birth of a child, either during pregnancy or in the months after delivery. Women can have terrifying thoughts of harming their baby, accidentally or deliberately. There is no good or solid answer as to why. Hormonal changes have been implicated, but it’s also a time of intense stress and taking on new responsibilities.</p><p>This is not an assembly line. We’re not just going to start lining people up and doing this.</p><p>Beverly Adams, psychiatrist</p><p>Seven patients with treatment-resistant OCD have undergone MRI-guided focus ultrasound in Calgary, where a team co-led by Adams and neurosurgeon Dr. Zelma Kiss is collaborating with Lipsman’s group. Adams explains to patients who might meet the criteria — aged 21 to 65, diagnosis of OCD for at least five years, tried but found ineffective multiple medications — that the procedure involves heating up “a little part of your brain” and making pinpoint lesions at the spot “where those thoughts go over and over in your head.”</p><p>The procedure is performed in a day. Surgeons usually do both sides of the brain. People worry most about having their heads shaved. The brain itself feels nothing — it has no pain receptors. But the lining of the brain is highly sensitive, and when ultrasound is passed through that lining it can generate heat and that can be uncomfortable.</p><p>Article content</p><p>Lipsman targets a region known as the ALIC, or anterior limb of the internal capsule, a dense region of fibres in a key network believed to be critical for communicating anxiety, fears and concerns that are pathologic — not reasonable — to areas of the brain that are critical for acting on those emotions.</p><p>“We know that disconnecting those areas could be critical for improving anxiety,” he said.</p><p>The procedure is done in the MRI scanner while the person is awake, with an anesthesiologist present to provide sedation or pain control if needed. MRI guidance provides real-time images of the brain for more precise lesioning, meaning burning. Real-time feedback of how much heat is being generated allows the team to adjust the temperature.</p><p>Water is circulated around the head to cool the scalp. Treatment starts with a few low-intensity sonications as surgeons home in on the target, followed by a series of high-powered ones to create a permanent, irreversible lesion.</p><p>Following the three-hour procedure, the headframe is removed. People spend a night in hospital for observation and go home the next day after an MRI is done to capture the full extent of the lesions and rule out any adverse “radiographic events.”</p><p>Article content</p><p>Not everybody’s skull is equal. “We found that about 10 to 15 per cent of the population has a skull density that is not amenable to transmitting ultrasound,” Lipsman said, a technical limitation of the device he thinks can be overcome with continued advances in the technology, “so that everybody who ought to be eligible can undergo the procedure.”</p><p>Possible side-effects can include headaches and facial swelling from the frame used to keep the head still. There have been no reported changes in personality. No reported deficits in memory. No deaths, brain hemorrhage or infection.</p><p>Focused ultrasound hasn’t been tested in sham-controlled experiments for OCD, so it’s impossible to rule out a placebo effect. However, for patients who’ve responded, the effects have been enduring, Lipsman said. Changing the circuitry appears to make people more responsive to treatments that previously didn’t work for them.</p><p>“What’s most important is the quality of life you see,” Adams said. “Relationships are better. They’re working again. OCD doesn’t go away completely, but they’re not as preoccupied.</p><p>“Science is a field where you make corrections as you learn,” she said. “To come to a point where there is a procedure that can really improve your quality of life and is non-invasive, I think it’s wrong not to talk about it.</p><p>Article content</p><p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-lipsman-sunnybrook.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=webp&sig=ytwwe8zKnSf-rFaE_jF3Wg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-lipsman-sunnybrook.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&type=jpg&sig=pOvBUrf9Es8qrU6qZ7JMfg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-lipsman-sunnybrook.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=webp&sig=FPbn5YcqEbp_XLuf-lqjuA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-lipsman-sunnybrook.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=768&type=jpg&sig=42YBMIClN5fG_htGEILYdQ, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-lipsman-sunnybrook.jpg?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&type=webp&sig=uTsSj0H8_81YxhJ3J7QDdQ, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/lobotomy-psychosurgery-medicine-mental-health-ocd-science-lipsman-sunnybrook.jpg?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=ZhSUTqZtDXXvJ1GpC-cZJw" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>“We have to be very careful not to take advantage of our patients’ desperation to get better,” says Dr. Nir Lipsman. Photo by Nick Kozak/National Post<p>“This is not an assembly line,” Adams added. “We’re not just going to start lining people up and doing this. This is for treatment-resistant OCD. But wouldn’t it be brilliant if we could find something that treated the more moderate forms?”</p><p>Unlike the era of Freeman’s runaway lobotomies, a major ethical consideration is ensuring informed consent, she and others said. That means ensuring the person’s anxiety and mood do not cloud their ability to understand the risks and benefits.</p><p>“When I see patients in clinic, they often tell me this is their last resort,” Lipsman said. “We have to be very careful not to take advantage of our patients’ desperation to get better.”</p><p>Anya got married last October. She is embarking on her PhD. Surgery wasn’t like flicking a switch: OCD, then no OCD. It’s been a gradual improvement, but a “really remarkable” one, she said. The first thing she noticed was an improvement in her mood.</p><p><p>Related Stories</p><p> The Gut-Brain Axis is the hottest area of science </p> <p><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/longread-gut-bacteria-brain-health-human-development-bkgrd.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=webp&sig=dmdl2OW97jIO_rcLM9t9Bg, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/longread-gut-bacteria-brain-health-human-development-bkgrd.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=150&type=jpg&sig=e7OArCxfI7HtU8NpNJLD5A, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/longread-gut-bacteria-brain-health-human-development-bkgrd.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=webp&sig=iRxoommrLd9tpeEnGuxzUw, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/longread-gut-bacteria-brain-health-human-development-bkgrd.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=100&type=jpg&sig=nQLh-190otDZ5ZIpXHiNjA, srcset="data:,1w"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/longread-gut-bacteria-brain-health-human-development-bkgrd.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=116&type=webp&sig=XGFkNUbRFdbr8Z-jSblxOA, srcset="data:,1w"><img src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/longread-gut-bacteria-brain-health-human-development-bkgrd.jpg?quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=c-ls1kurV_0rsSXOd0AxTA" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p> </p> </p><p>“Before surgery, my mood was super-low, depressed, desperate, suicidal.” Post surgery, “I started having better days. We could see something was shifting.”</p><p>A turning point came when she accepted an invitation to a relative’s wedding in Los Angeles two months after surgery. She had been virtually housebound, especially avoiding places that had music. “That would trigger the earworms.” Weddings have music and dancing. “That was kind of hard and not something that I would have done some months prior. But I went.”</p><p>Later that spring and over the summer, that “constant intrusive soundtrack” in her brain grew fainter. “I still get earworms occasionally. I still have this residual thing when I’m really stressed or going through a difficult experience or reducing my medications.</p><p>“It can be annoying. 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3213317	有图 <p>Theo Trung tâm Dự báo khí tượng thủy văn quốc gia, sáng nay (21/7), bão số 3 Wipha đã vượt qua khu vực phía Bắc bán đảo Lôi Châu (Trung Quốc), đi vào phía Bắc vịnh Bắc Bộ.</p><p>Đến 10h, vị trí tâm bão cách Quảng Ninh khoảng 190km, cách Hải Phòng 310km về phía Đông; cách Hưng Yên khoảng 340km, cách Ninh Bình 360km về phía Đông Đông Bắc. Sức gió mạnh nhất vùng gần tâm bão mạnh cấp 9 (75-88km/giờ), giật cấp 11; di chuyển theo hướng Tây Tây Nam với tốc độ 10-15km/h.</p><p>Trước diễn biến của bão, Sở GD-ĐT Hải Phòng đã có văn bản chỉ đạo, yêu cầu các trường tạm dừng hoạt động tập trung học sinh, sinh viên trong thời gian bão đổ bộ và mưa trên diện rộng, chủ động điều chỉnh lịch học, đảm bảo an toàn tuyệt đối cho học sinh, sinh viên. Thời gian này, cha mẹ được khuyến nghị quản lý con em tại nhà, không để xảy ra tình trạng đi lại khi điều kiện thời tiết nguy hiểm.</p><p>Đối với các cơ sở có tổ chức bán trú, nội trú cần chuẩn bị phương án đảm bảo an toàn tuyệt đối cho học sinh trong mọi tình huống.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/w-mua-to-hoang-minh-11-1460-1598.jpg?width=0&s=GnIvufnnZv8ry5UPV6DBZg"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Miền Bắc sẽ hứng đợt mưa rất lớn do ảnh hưởng hoàn lưu bão số 3. Ảnh: Hoàng Minh<p>Tại Hà Nội, trong sáng nay, nhiều trường học cũng thông báo phụ huynh đón học sinh sớm hoặc tạm dừng các hoạt động để đảm bảo an toàn cho thầy và trò. Chẳng hạn tại Trường Mầm non Nguyễn Tuân (Thanh Xuân), trước diễn biến phức tạp của bão Wipha, nhà trường điều chỉnh thời gian đón trẻ sớm, từ 15h để đảm bảo an toàn cho học sinh.</p><p>Hệ thống giáo dục Archimedes cũng cho phụ huynh đón trẻ mầm non sớm từ 13h chiều nay. Ở bậc THCS, nhà trường tạm hoãn các hoạt động sinh hoạt hè và trải nghiệm vì điều kiện thời tiết không thuận lợi và để đảm bảo an toàn cho học sinh.</p><p>Ở bậc đại học, Đại học Bách khoa Hà Nội cho hay nhằm đảm bảo an toàn cho người học, giảng viên trước ảnh hưởng của bão số 3, Ban Giám đốc đại học chỉ đạo toàn bộ các lớp học lý thuyết và bài tập theo kế hoạch học trực tiếp sẽ chuyển sang hình thức học trực tuyến. Các lớp thí nghiệm và thực hành tạm nghỉ. Cán bộ phụ trách sẽ chủ động sắp xếp và tổ chức học bù vào thời điểm phù hợp. Thời gian áp dụng vào ngày 21-22/7.</p><p>Để đảm bảo an toàn cho giảng viên và sinh viên, Học viện Ngoại giao Việt Nam đã thông báo tất cả các lớp học trong kỳ hè vào ngày 21-22/7 sẽ chuyển sang hình thức học trực tuyến. Từ ngày 23/7, phòng đào tạo của trường sẽ theo dõi diễn biến và có thông báo chính thức trong thời gian sớm nhất.</p><p>Theo dự báo, trong 12 giờ tới, bão tiếp tục di chuyển hướng Tây Tây Nam, 10-15km/h và có khả năng mạnh lên. Đến 22h đêm nay, vị trí tâm bão vẫn trên khu vực vịnh Bắc Bộ với cường độ tăng lên cấp 10-11, giật cấp 14.</p><p>Đến 10h sáng mai (22/7), bão trên vùng biển từ Hải Phòng - Thanh Hoá, vẫn với sức gió cấp 10-11, giật cấp 14.</p><p>Trong 24 giờ sau đó, bão vẫn di chuyển hướng Tây Tây Nam, 10-15km/h và suy yếu dần thành một vùng áp thấp trên đất liền khu vực Thượng Lào.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Thủ khoa có tên lạ, tốt nghiệp đại học điểm gần tuyệt đốiNữ thủ khoa Đại học Kinh tế Quốc dân gây ấn tượng không chỉ vì tốt nghiệp với điểm số gần tuyệt đối mà còn bởi cái tên dài đặc biệt - Nguyễn Hoàng Ánh Mai Sao.</p> Nhiều trường cho học sinh tan sớm hoặc tạm nghỉ để tránh bão Wipha	查看 3514	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213316	有图 <p>Quỹ nhà ở quốc gia là quỹ tài chính nhà nước ngoài ngân sách, hoạt động theo mô hình doanh nghiệp do Nhà nước nắm giữ 100% vốn điều lệ. Vốn điều lệ do ngân sách Trung ương cấp lần đầu tối thiểu là 5.000 tỷ đồng và nâng lên tối thiểu 10.000 tỷ đồng trong 3 năm tiếp theo.</p><p>Bộ Xây dựng đang lấy ý kiến các bộ, ngành trước khi trình Chính phủ ban hành nghị định quy định về Quỹ nhà ở quốc gia.</p><p>Theo đề xuất, Quỹ nhà ở quốc gia gồm Quỹ nhà ở trung ương do Bộ Xây dựng quản lý và Quỹ nhà ở địa phương do Sở Xây dựng địa phương quản lý.</p><p>Theo đó, Chính phủ sẽ lập Quỹ nhà ở trung ương giao cho Bộ Xây dựng quản lý và là đại diện chủ sở hữu. Giám đốc Quỹ nhà ở trung ương do Bộ Xây dựng bổ nhiệm.</p><p>UBND các tỉnh, thành phố sẽ lập Quỹ nhà ở địa phương và là đại diện chủ sở hữu, giao cơ quan chuyên môn cấp tỉnh quản lý. Giám đốc Quỹ nhà ở địa phương do chủ tịch UBND cấp tỉnh bổ nhiệm.</p><p>Bộ Xây dựng cũng đề xuất Quỹ nhà ở quốc gia là quỹ tài chính nhà nước ngoài ngân sách, được hoạt động theo mô hình doanh nghiệp do nhà nước nắm giữ 100% vốn điều lệ.</p><p>Ngoài ra, Quỹ nhà ở quốc gia sẽ tiếp nhận các đóng góp tự nguyện từ các tổ chức, cá nhân.</p><p>Quỹ có tư cách pháp nhân, được bố trí ngân sách để hoạt động, có con dấu, được mở tài khoản tại Kho bạc Nhà nước và các ngân hàng thương mại theo quy định của pháp luật.</p><p>Về nguồn vốn hoạt động của Quỹ, Bộ đề xuất, Quỹ nhà ở trung ương được hình thành từ vốn chủ sở hữu, nguồn hỗ trợ tự nguyện, đóng góp của tổ chức, cá nhân trong và ngoài nước, nguồn huy động hợp pháp khác.</p><p>Cụ thể, vốn điều lệ của Quỹ nhà ở trung ương do ngân sách trung ương cấp lần đầu tối thiểu 5.000 tỷ đồng ngay sau khi thành lập, và sẽ nâng mức vốn điều lệ lên tối thiểu 10.000 tỷ đồng trong 3 năm tiếp theo.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/w-nha-o-xa-hoi-vietnamnet-1626.jpg?width=0&s=AXZACNEcOLRUA1v8l4K72g"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Dự án nhà ở xã hội tại Hà Nội. Ảnh: Hồng Khanh<p>Ngoài ra, Quỹ nhà ở trung ương cũng được thu tiền bán nhà ở thuộc tài sản công do cơ quan trung ương đang quản lý theo quy định của pháp luật, vốn bổ sung từ hoạt động của quỹ, vốn khác thuộc sở hữu để bổ sung vốn hoạt động.</p><p>Đối với Quỹ nhà ở địa phương, vốn điều lệ của quỹ do ngân sách địa phương cấp và cấp bổ sung, sau khi được Hội đồng nhân dân cấp tỉnh thông qua.</p><p>Quỹ nhà ở địa phương được thu số tiền tương đương giá trị quỹ đất phát triển nhà ở xã hội do chủ đầu tư các dự án nhà ở thương mại, khu đô thị thực hiện nghĩa vụ nhà ở xã hội theo quy định của pháp luật nhà ở.</p><p>Bên cạnh đó, thu tiền bán nhà ở thuộc tài sản công do địa phương quản lý theo quy định của pháp luật về nhà ở; tiền đấu giá quyền sử dụng đất theo Nghị quyết số 201/2025/QH15 của Quốc hội về thí điểm một số cơ chế chính sách đặc thù phát triển nhà ở xã hội, và nguồn vốn bổ sung từ hoạt động của quỹ nhà ở địa phương.</p><p>Ai được thuê nhà ở?</p><p>Bộ Xây dựng cho biết, mục tiêu hoạt động của Quỹ nhà ở quốc gia là đầu tư xây dựng, quản lý vận hành các dự án nhà ở xã hội độc lập, dự án nhà ở xã hội đồng bộ hệ thống hạ tầng kỹ thuật, hạ tầng xã hội để cho thuê.</p><p>Cùng với đó, tổ chức quản lý vận hành nhà ở xã hội thông qua hình thức tiếp nhận, chuyển đổi công năng nhà ở thuộc tài sản công do cơ quan trung ương đang quản lý theo quy định của pháp luật về nhà ở, nhà ở thuộc tài sản công do địa phương bàn giao để cho thuê, mua lại nhà ở xã hội do các chủ đầu tư tư nhân xây dựng để cho thuê.</p><p>Quản lý vận hành nhà ở thông qua hình thức mua nhà ở thương mại để cho cán bộ, công chức, viên chức, người lao động thuộc cơ quan nhà nước, tổ chức chính trị, tổ chức chính trị - xã hội, đơn vị sự nghiệp công lập.</p><p>Về nguyên tắc đầu tư, tạo lập nhà ở, Bộ Xây dựng đề xuất, Quỹ thực hiện đầu tư xây dựng dự án nhà ở xã hội độc lập trong thời hạn không quá 5 năm, dự án nhà ở xã hội có hạ tầng đồng bộ được đầu tư trong thời hạn không quá 7 năm.</p><p>Đối tượng thuê nhà ở xã hội do Quỹ đầu tư xây dựng, tạo lập bao gồm các đối tượng được hưởng chính sách hỗ trợ về nhà ở xã hội quy định tại pháp luật về nhà ở.</p><p>Ngoài ra, nhóm đối tượng còn bao gồm cán bộ, công chức, viên chức, người lao động.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Dự án nhà ở xã hội có giá đắt nhất Hà Nội: Căn 32m2 giá hơn 860 triệu đồng</p><p>Dự án nhà ở xã hội Rice City Long Châu (Long Biên, Hà Nội) có giá tạm tính 26-27 triệu đồng một m2, mức cao nhất với nhà xã hội mở bán mới tại Hà Nội đến nay.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Đề xuất mới về điều kiện nhà ở để mua nhà xã hội sau sáp nhập tỉnh, thành</p><p>Sau khi sáp nhập tỉnh, thành phố, trong trường hợp người dân đã có nhà ở, tuỳ thuộc vào điều kiện và thời gian di chuyển từ nhà đến nơi làm việc thì UBND cấp tỉnh sẽ quy định điều kiện cụ thể để được mua nhà ở xã hội.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Nhà ở vừa túi tiền vẫn là "khoảng trống" lớn tại TPHCM</p><p>Báo cáo thị trường bất động sản nửa đầu năm 2025 của Savills mới công bố cho thấy, TPHCM tiếp tục đối mặt với tình trạng thiếu hụt nguồn cung nhà ở.</p></p> Nhà nước góp 5.000-10.000 tỷ đồng lập Quỹ nhà ở quốc gia	查看 5635	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213315	有图 <p>Năm 2017, khi Kiểm toán Nhà nước vào cuộc và thực hiện kiểm toán các công ty lâm nghiệp tại Đắk Lắk, cơ quan này đã kiến nghị truy thu toàn bộ tiền thuê đất giai đoạn 2006–2016 đối với hơn 17 doanh nghiệp, với tổng số tiền lên tới trên 54 tỷ đồng.</p><p>Những khoản truy thu này được xác định là do các doanh nghiệp không nộp hồ sơ xin miễn, giảm đúng thời điểm, bất chấp việc họ hoàn toàn thuộc diện được hưởng ưu đãi đầu tư.</p><p>Nguyên nhân chính khiến các doanh nghiệp nợ đọng tiền thuê đất là do giai đoạn trước năm 2024, dù chính sách miễn, giảm tiền thuê đất đã được quy định tại Luật Đầu tư, Luật Đất đai và nhiều văn bản hướng dẫn, nhưng lại thiếu cơ chế phổ biến và hỗ trợ cụ thể trong triển khai. Hệ quả là hầu hết các công ty nông, lâm nghiệp không nắm bắt được thông tin để kịp thời nộp hồ sơ xin miễn, giảm đúng quy định.</p><p>Tình trạng này phổ biến ở các doanh nghiệp hoạt động tại vùng sâu, vùng xa – nơi người lao động chủ yếu là đồng bào dân tộc thiểu số, còn nhiều hạn chế trong việc tiếp cận thủ tục hành chính. Trong khi đó, hoạt động sản xuất lại gặp không ít trở ngại do đất đai bị xâm canh, lấn chiếm và hạ tầng cơ sở còn yếu kém. Đáng chú ý, trong giai đoạn đó, các doanh nghiệp không được cơ quan chức năng hướng dẫn cụ thể hoặc đốc thúc thực hiện các thủ tục kê khai để được miễn, giảm chi phí, dẫn đến việc thụ hưởng chính sách một cách bị động và dễ dàng bị bỏ sót.</p><p>Những gánh nặng phát sinh từ các chính sách, cùng với việc điều chỉnh đơn giá thuê đất qua từng thời kỳ, đã đẩy nhiều doanh nghiệp vào tình cảnh khó khăn. Nhiều đơn vị buộc phải tạm dừng hoạt động, bán tài sản để trả nợ, không đủ điều kiện xây dựng phương án sử dụng đất hay tiếp cận vốn tín dụng. Trong khi đó, hàng chục nghìn hecta đất lâm nghiệp lại không được quản lý, chăm sóc hiệu quả.</p><p>Một nghịch lý đáng lưu ý là chính sách miễn, giảm tiền thuê đất lại đang vô tình loại bỏ những doanh nghiệp đang gặp nhiều khó khăn nhất. Đây cũng là điểm bất cập được cộng đồng doanh nghiệp tại Hà Nội phản ánh trong tờ trình sửa đổi dự thảo Nghị định 103.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/ngan-hang-1633.jpg?width=0&s=ODy67M0WQPB6sxivg_SvyA"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Ảnh minh họa: Nam Khánh<p>Hiện nay, Bộ Tài chính đang thực hiện việc sửa đổi quy định cho phù hợp với tình hình mới, cụ thể là một số điều của Nghị định 103/2024/NĐ-CP của Chính phủ. Nội dung dự kiến sửa đổi được đăng tải trên Cổng thông tin điện tử của Chính phủ và Bộ Tài chính vào ngày 24/5/2025, trong đó có ý kiến từ 2 doanh nghiệp và hiệp hội của thành phố Hà Nội đề nghị được áp dụng chính sách truy thu miễn giảm như các đơn vị công lập, tạo tính công bằng minh bạch cho các doanh nghiệp và người dân.</p><p>Bộ Tài chính cho biết: Có ý kiến cho rằng khoản 3, Điều 51 Nghị định 103/2024/NĐ-CP chỉ quy định áp dụng đối với đối tượng là đơn vị sự nghiệp công lập (không áp dụng đối với doanh nghiệp). Trong khi doanh nghiệp cung cấp dịch vụ công ích như Công ty nước sạch Hà Nội cũng có vướng mắc tương tự.</p><p>Vì vậy, có ý kiến đề nghị bổ sung quy định xử lý chuyển tiếp nêu trên để giải quyết vướng mắc đối với các trường hợp thuộc tổ chức 100% vốn nhà nước sử dụng đất xây dựng các công trình cấp nước, thoát nước và xử lý nước thải tại khu vực thành thị và nông thôn thuộc đối tượng phải chuyển sang thuê đất hoặc chuyển sang thuê đất nhưng chưa hoặc chậm làm thủ tục để được miễn tiền thuê đất; Người thuê đất chậm nộp hồ sơ đề nghị miễn, giảm tiền thuê đất xuất phát từ các nguyên nhân khách quan, trong đó có nguyên nhân thời gian thực hiện thủ tục cho thuê đất với cơ quan tài nguyên và môi trường bị kéo dài không xuất phát từ nguyên nhân chủ quan của người nộp thuế.</p><p>Dù vậy, Bộ Tài chính vẫn chưa tổng hợp vào dự thảo với lý do mới chỉ có ít đơn vị phản ánh. Bộ Tài chính đề nghị các bộ, địa phương liên quan rà soát có thêm ý kiến về nội dung này.</p><p>Như vậy, dự thảo lần này vẫn chưa có điều chỉnh nhằm hỗ trợ doanh nghiệp và người dân tránh bị truy thu “tiền thuê đất” – khoản lẽ ra họ được miễn nhưng lại phải đóng. Trong khi đó, theo quy định mới tại Luật Đất đai 2024, người sử dụng đất không còn bắt buộc phải làm thủ tục xin miễn, giảm như trước.</p><p>Điều này khiến không ít doanh nghiệp băn khoăn khi đang từng ngày cố gắng bám trụ tại vùng khó khăn, góp phần tạo việc làm cho hàng nghìn lao động địa phương, nay lại phải gánh khoản “nợ chính sách” chỉ vì thiếu cơ chế hỗ trợ linh hoạt, kịp thời.</p><p>Bộ Tài chính vẫn đang chờ thêm các ý kiến từ địa phương. Trong khi đó, nhiều doanh nghiệp vẫn đang tiếp tục gặp khó khăn, rơi vào vòng xoáy nợ nần, ngừng trệ hoạt động; nhiều diện tích rừng cũng bị bỏ hoang do thiếu kinh phí quản lý, bảo vệ.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Tháo gỡ rào cản, khơi thông động lực cho kinh tế tư nhânKinh tế tư nhân cần được xem là rường cột cho sự phát triển của đất nước. Điều quan trọng là phải tạo ra động lực và môi trường thuận lợi để các doanh nhân xác định rõ sứ mệnh xây dựng doanh nghiệp, thương hiệu Việt có khả năng trường tồn.</p> Dự thảo sửa đổi Nghị định 103 bỏ qua khó khăn của loạt DN nông, lâm	查看 5244	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213314	有图 <p>Theo bản tin chiều 21/7 của Trung tâm Dự báo khí tượng thủy văn quốc gia, do ảnh hưởng của bão số 3 Wipha, tại đặc khu Bạch Long Vĩ đã có gió mạnh cấp 8, giật cấp 9; đặc khu Cô Tô gió mạnh cấp 6, giật cấp 7.</p><p>Đến 13h, tâm bão cách Quảng Ninh khoảng 120km, Hải Phòng 260km, Hưng Yên 280km và Ninh Bình khoảng 310km về phía Đông Đông Bắc. Sức gió mạnh nhất cấp 9-10 (75–102km/h), giật cấp 12. Bão di chuyển hướng Tây Tây Nam với tốc độ 10-15km/h.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/bao-so-3-chieu-21-7-1641.gif?width=0&s=t6lmnh1P5OGhCDTp9GYtGQ"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Bão số 3 tăng 1 cấp và khả năng mạnh thêm. Nguồn: NCHMF<p>Dự báo, đến 1h ngày mai (22/7), bão giữ nguyên hướng và tốc độ di chuyển và có khả năng mạnh thêm. Vị trí tâm bão khi đó sẽ nằm trên khu vực Bắc vịnh Bắc Bộ với cường độ bão đạt cấp 10-11, giật cấp 14.</p><p>Vùng nguy hiểm trên biển tại thời điểm này là khu vực phía Bắc vĩ tuyến 18,5 độ Vĩ Bắc, từ kinh tuyến 106-112 độ Kinh Đông. Khu vực chịu ảnh hưởng gồm vùng biển phía Tây Bắc khu vực Bắc Biển Đông, vịnh Bắc Bộ, và vùng biển ven bờ các tỉnh từ Quảng Ninh đến Ninh Bình. Cấp độ rủi ro thiên tai được đánh giá là cấp 3.</p><p>Đến 13h cùng ngày, bão tiếp tục di chuyển theo hướng Tây Tây Nam với vận tốc tương tự. Tâm bão dự báo nằm trên vùng biển từ Hải Phòng - Thanh Hóa. Cường độ bão giữ nguyên ở cấp 10-11, giật cấp 14.</p><p>Vùng nguy hiểm mở rộng về phía Tây, nằm phía Bắc vĩ tuyến 18,5 độ Vĩ Bắc và phía Tây kinh tuyến 110 độ Kinh Đông. Các khu vực chịu ảnh hưởng bao gồm vịnh Bắc Bộ, vùng biển ven bờ và cả đất liền các tỉnh từ Quảng Ninh - Nghệ An. Cấp độ rủi ro thiên tai vẫn ở mức cấp 3.</p><p>Đến 13h ngày 23/7, bão được dự báo tiếp tục di chuyển theo hướng Tây Tây Nam, với tốc độ 10-15km/h và suy yếu dần thành một vùng áp thấp. Vị trí tâm vùng áp thấp sẽ nằm trên đất liền khu vực Thượng Lào. Cường độ lúc này giảm xuống dưới cấp 6.</p><p>Vùng ảnh hưởng tiếp tục bao gồm vịnh Bắc Bộ, vùng biển ven bờ và đất liền các tỉnh từ Quảng Ninh - Nghệ An. Cấp độ rủi ro thiên tai vẫn duy trì ở cấp 3 do gió mạnh và mưa lớn tiếp tục ảnh hưởng.</p><p>Tác động của bão</p><p>Trên biển</p><p>Vùng biển phía Tây Bắc khu vực Bắc Biển Đông gió mạnh cấp 7-8, giật cấp 10, sóng biển cao 3-5m, biển động mạnh. Vùng biển Bắc vịnh Bắc Bộ (bao gồm các đặc khu Bạch Long Vĩ, Cô Tô, Vân Đồn, Cát Hải, đảo Hòn Dấu) có gió mạnh cấp 6-7, sau tăng lên cấp 8-9, vùng gần tâm bão đi qua cấp 10-11, giật cấp 14, sóng biển cao 2-4m, vùng gần tâm bão 4-6m, biển động dữ dội.</p><p>Vùng biển Nam vịnh Bắc Bộ (bao gồm đảo Hòn Ngư) có gió mạnh dần lên cấp 6-7, vùng gần tâm bão cấp 8-9, giật cấp 11, sóng biển cao 2-4m, biển động rất mạnh.</p><p>Nước dâng do bão và cảnh báo ngập lụt khu vực ven biển</p><p>Vùng ven biển Hưng Yên - Quảng Ninh có nước dâng do bão cao từ 0,5-1m. Mực nước tại Ba Lạt (Hưng Yên) cao 2,4-2,6m, Hòn Dấu (Hải Phòng) cao 3,9-4,3m, tại Cửa Ông (Quảng Ninh) cao 4,6-5m và tại Trà Cổ (Quảng Ninh) cao 3,6-4m. Nguy cơ cao gây ngập, úng tại khu vực ven biển, cửa sông vào chiều 22/7.</p><p>Cảnh báo: Thời tiết trên biển, vùng đất liền ven biển trong bão cực kỳ nguy hiểm, không an toàn cho bất kỳ phương tiện, công trình nào hoạt động trong vùng nguy hiểm như: Tàu du lịch, tàu chở khách, tàu vận tải, lồng, bè, khu nuôi trồng thuỷ sản, đê, kè, tuyến đường ven biển. Các phương tiện có khả năng cao bị lật úp, phá huỷ, ngập úng do gió mạnh, giông, lốc, sóng lớn và nước biển dâng.</p><p>Trên đất liền</p><p>Từ tối và đêm nay (21/7), vùng ven biển từ Quảng Ninh đến Nghệ An có gió mạnh dần lên cấp 7-9, vùng gần tâm bão cấp 10-11, giật cấp 14; khu vực sâu trong đất liền các tỉnh/thành Hải Phòng, Hưng Yên, Ninh Bình và Thanh Hoá gió mạnh cấp 6, giật cấp 7-8. Gió cấp 10-11 có thể làm đổ cây cối, cột điện, tốc mái nhà, gây thiệt hại rất nặng.</p><p>Mưa lớn</p><p>Từ ngày 21-23/7, ở khu vực Đông Bắc, đồng bằng Bắc Bộ, Thanh Hóa và Nghệ An có mưa to đến rất to và giông với lượng mưa phổ biến 200-350mm, cục bộ có nơi trên 600mm; các nơi khác ở khu vực Bắc Bộ và Hà Tĩnh có mưa vừa, mưa to, cục bộ có nơi mưa rất to và giông với lượng mưa phổ biến 100-200mm, cục bộ có nơi trên 300mm.</p><p>Cảnh báo nguy cơ mưa có cường suất lớn (>150mm/3h). Lượng mưa lớn trong thời gian ngắn có thể gây lũ quét, sạt lở đất ở vùng núi, ngập lụt ở vùng trũng thấp.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Chuyên gia dự báo thời điểm mưa lớn dữ dội nhất do bão số 3 WiphaChuyên gia khí tượng nhận định, khi bão số 3 Wipha tiến sát bờ trong tối và đêm nay sẽ gây mưa lớn trên diện rộng. Thời điểm từ đêm nay đến sáng mai (22/7), khu vực Bắc Bộ và Bắc Trung Bộ là giai đoạn mưa lớn nhất.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Bão số 3 Wipha giật cấp 11 vào vịnh Bắc Bộ, cách Quảng Ninh 190km</p><p>Bão số 3 Wipha đã đi vào phía Bắc vịnh Bắc Bộ với sức gió mạnh nhất cấp 9, giật cấp 11 và khả năng mạnh thêm; cách Quảng Ninh 190km, Hải Phòng 310km,...</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Hình ảnh ngư dân Thanh Hóa hối hả kéo thuyền lên đường nhựa tránh bão số 3</p><p>Thanh Hóa chính thức cấm biển từ 8h sáng nay. Theo đó, hàng nghìn thuyền bè của ngư dân ven biển Sầm Sơn đã được kéo lên đường nhựa để tránh trú bão số 3.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Thời tiết Hà Nội 3 ngày tới: Mưa lớn trắng trời, xuất hiện gió giật đến cấp 9</p><p>Dự báo thời tiết Hà Nội 3 ngày tới (21/7-23/7), do ảnh hưởng của bão số 3, trời đầy mây và có mưa đến rất to, đặc biệt đêm 21/7 gió giật đến cấp 9; cần đề phòng thời tiết cực đoan.</p></p> Bão số 3 Wipha mạnh thêm 1 cấp, cách Hưng Yên 280km - Ninh Bình 310km	查看 5985	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213313	有图 <p>Theo trang tin quân sự Militarnyi, Bộ Quốc phòng Ukraine ngày 20/7 đã công bố đoạn video ghi lại cảnh quân đội nước này sử dụng UAV để tập kích một hệ thống pháo phản lực phóng loạt (MLRS) Type 75 của Nga ở vùng Kharkiv.</p><p>"Binh sĩ điều khiển UAV của Trung đoàn không người lái độc lập số 429 mang tên Achilles đã phát hiện ra hệ thống MLRS của đối phương ở gần làng Lyman Pershyi. Các UAV cảm tử ngay sau đó đã được triển khai để bắn cháy mục tiêu, bất chấp việc hệ thống Type-75 được ngụy trang trong một rừng cây", phía Ukraine cho biết.</p><p>UAV Ukraine bắn cháy pháo phản lực Type 75 được Triều Tiên chuyển giao cho Nga. Video: Militarnyi</p><p>Giới quan sát nhận định, Triều Tiên đã gửi cho Nga nhiều hệ thống Type-75 kể từ đầu năm nay, nhưng những hình ảnh thực tế của chúng trên tiền tuyến tương đối hiếm.</p><p>Type 75 là hệ thống pháo phản lực phóng loạt do Triều Tiên sản xuất dựa theo thiết kế Type 63 của Trung Quốc. Hệ thống MLRS này có tính cơ động cao khi chỉ nặng khoảng 600kg, cho phép gắn trên nhiều phương tiện khác nhau như xe tải hoặc xe chở quân.</p><p>Type 75 sử dụng đạn phân mảnh kích thước lớn, có thể gây sát thương trong bán kính 12m. Số lượng đạn mỗi hệ thống mang theo là 12 quả, thời gian nạp đạn là 3 phút, tầm bắn tối đa lên tới 8.500m.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Lữ đoàn UAV Ukraine tung video phá hủy pháo phản lực BM-21 Nga ở Donetsk</p><p>Đòn tấn công từ máy bay không người lái góc nhìn thứ nhất (FPV) Ukraine đã kích nổ số đạn dược trên pháo phản lực Grad của Nga, khiến khí tài này bị phá hủy hoàn toàn.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Video FPV cảm tử Nga phá hủy pháo phản lực mini của Ukraine ở tiền tuyến</p><p>Thông qua các máy bay không người lái góc nhìn thứ nhất (FPV) cảm tử, quân đội Nga đã vô hiệu hóa cỗ pháo RAK-SA-12 trong biên chế quân Ukraine.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Video pháo phản lực Nga nã ‘mưa tên lửa’ vào vị trí triển khai quân Ukraine</p><p>Bộ Quốc phòng Nga gần đây công bố hình ảnh pháo phản lực khai hỏa vào vị trí triển khai binh sĩ tạm thời của Ukraine ở phía nam tỉnh Donetsk.</p></p> Video UAV Ukraine bắn cháy pháo phản lực Triều Tiên chuyển giao cho Nga	查看 2356	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213312	有图 <p>Một báo cáo chính thức vừa công bố đêm 20/7 xác nhận phát hiện trước đó của cảnh sát thành phố Thiên Thủy (tỉnh Cam Túc, Trung Quốc), cho thấy nhân viên nhà bếp tại Trường mầm non Heshi Peixin đã pha sơn trang trí vào đồ ăn phục vụ học sinh.</p><p>Sự việc diễn ra gần 2 tuần sau khi cảnh sát thành phố Thiên Thủy bắt giữ 8 người có liên quan đến vụ nhiễm độc chì, khiến hơn 200 trẻ mẫu giáo có nồng độ chì trong máu vượt mức cho phép. Đây là vụ việc gây chấn động dư luận Trung Quốc.</p><p>Theo báo cáo điều tra do chính quyền tỉnh công bố hôm Chủ nhật (20/7), Trung tâm CDC tỉnh Cam Túc và Bệnh viện Nhân dân số 2 Thiên Thủy đã thao túng quy trình và kết quả xét nghiệm máu của các học sinh Trường mầm non Heshi Peixin.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/truong-mam-non-trung-quoc-1660.jpg?width=0&s=aP1FBqZiyKZ7kA0IR73nKQ"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Trường mầm non Heshi Peixin vào năm 2024. Ảnh: Heshi Peixin Kindergarten/WeChat<p>Những người đang bị điều tra và có thể sẽ bị kỷ luật, chịu trách nhiệm cá nhân, bao gồm bí thư Đảng ủy Ủy ban Y tế tỉnh Cam Túc, giám đốc CDC tỉnh Cam Túc, bí thư Thành ủy Thiên Thủy và thị trưởng thành phố.</p><p>Báo cáo cũng cho biết, lãnh đạo cấp cao tỉnh “vô cùng đau buồn” về vụ việc và đã gửi lời xin lỗi đến các em nhỏ bị ảnh hưởng cùng gia đình. Chính quyền địa phương cam kết điều trị miễn phí cho trẻ và hoàn trả chi phí khám chữa bệnh ngoài thành phố.</p><p>Sửa kết quả xét nghiệm, bao che kéo dài</p><p>Theo báo cáo trên website chính quyền tỉnh Cam Túc, từ ngày 1/5/2023 đến 30/6/2024, Bệnh viện Nhân dân số 2 Thiên Thủy đã phát hiện 7 trường hợp trẻ em có nồng độ chì bất thường trong máu, song lại sửa kết quả của 2 trường hợp.</p><p>Cụ thể, một kết quả bị chỉnh từ 292,37 microgam/lít (mcg/L) xuống còn 42,37 mcg/L; trường hợp khác bị giảm từ 440,14 mcg/L xuống còn 103 mcg/L. Trong y tế, nồng độ chì trong máu từ 250 mcg/L trở lên được xem là nhiễm độc trung bình, còn từ 450 mcg/L trở lên là nhiễm độc nặng.</p><p>Đáng chú ý, bệnh viện đã không cảnh báo dù phát hiện một học sinh có kết quả máu bất thường liên tiếp trong 6 lần xét nghiệm suốt 6 tháng kể từ tháng 11 năm ngoái. Cơ sở này cũng không báo cáo vụ việc lên cấp trên hoặc thông báo cho trường mẫu giáo.</p><p>Báo cáo còn nêu rõ bệnh viện này từng có hành vi gian lận kết quả xét nghiệm chì trong máu ở các trường hợp khác. Hiện cơ quan kỷ luật đang mở rộng điều tra.</p><p>Trong khi đó, đội ngũ xét nghiệm tại CDC tỉnh Cam Túc - được chỉ định thực hiện xét nghiệm khi có chỉ đạo từ cấp tỉnh - cũng bị phát hiện vi phạm nghiêm trọng quy trình kỹ thuật, làm sai lệch kết quả. Họ còn sử dụng nhiều thủ đoạn để trốn tránh trách nhiệm và gây cản trở quá trình điều tra.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/ngo-doc-chi-1661.jpg?width=0&s=fkN5L-YVkgr0FWvMioKktQ"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Nhân viên nhà bếp bị cáo buộc trộn sơn vào bột làm bánh cho trẻ ăn. Ảnh: Sky News</p><p>Truyền hình trung ương Trung Quốc (CCTV) đưa tin vào tối 20/7 rằng Bệnh viện Nhân dân tỉnh Cam Túc đã tiếp quản hoạt động của Bệnh viện Nhân dân số 2 Thiên Thủy do bê bối nghiêm trọng trên.</p><p>Sơn trang trí bị thêm vào đồ ăn học sinh</p><p>Các bài báo trước đó của truyền thông Trung Quốc cho biết nhiều phụ huynh đã đưa con đến các thành phố khác xét nghiệm, và phát hiện nồng độ chì trong máu thực tế cao hơn nhiều so với kết quả do bệnh viện địa phương cung cấp.</p><p>Báo cáo mới nhất khẳng định phát hiện ban đầu của cảnh sát địa phương: Nhân viên nhà bếp Trường mầm non Heshi Peixin đã mua sơn trang trí trên mạng, pha loãng rồi trộn vào đồ ăn - với sự đồng ý của hiệu trưởng, người nằm trong số 8 nghi phạm bị bắt đầu tháng này.</p><p>Ngoài ra, một nhà đầu tư tên Lý cùng 6 nhân viên bếp ăn cũng bị tạm giữ để điều tra về hành vi "sản xuất thực phẩm độc hại và nguy hiểm".</p><p>Trường mẫu giáo này bị cho là đã chọn loại sơn có màu sắc tươi sáng, dù giá cao hơn phẩm màu thông thường, bất chấp cảnh báo "không dùng cho thực phẩm" được ghi rõ trên bao bì.</p><p>Phần lớn học sinh và thầy cô trong trường đều bị nhiễm chì</p><p>Kết quả điều tra cho thấy, 247/251 học sinh đang theo học và 28/34 cán bộ nhân viên của trường có nồng độ chì trong máu cao. Ngoài ra, trong số 72 học sinh đã tốt nghiệp năm 2023 và 2024 được xét nghiệm, có 5 em có kết quả bất thường.</p><p>Báo cáo cũng khẳng định không phát hiện nguồn ô nhiễm chì nào trong môi trường xung quanh trường học.</p><p>Ba trường mẫu giáo khác có cùng nhà đầu tư đứng sau hiện không ghi nhận tình trạng nhiễm độc chì.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Vụ 233 trẻ nhiễm độc chì tại trường mẫu giáo: Chính quyền trung ương vào cuộc</p><p>TRUNG QUỐC - Vụ việc 233/250 trẻ tại một trường mầm non ở tỉnh Cam Túc nhiễm độc chì nặng khiến dư luận phẫn nộ, trong khi chính quyền địa phương bị cáo buộc che giấu thông tin.</p></p> Vụ 247 trẻ bị nhiễm độc vì thức ăn ở trường: Kết quả xét nghiệm từng bị làm giả	查看 5189	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213311	有图 <p>Chiều 20/7, tại Trung tâm Khám phá Khoa học và Đổi mới sáng tạo, đã diễn ra Lễ bế mạc và trao giải Cuộc thi Robotacon Gia Lai mở rộng năm 2025.</p><p>Đây là lần đầu tiên cuộc thi Robotacon được tổ chức quy mô cấp tỉnh tại Gia Lai và cũng là lần đầu tiên một cuộc thi Robotacon được tổ chức tại địa phương thuộc khu vực miền Trung.</p><p>Sự kiện đã thu hút hơn 50 đội thi với 118 thí sinh là học sinh Tiểu học và Trung học Cơ sở tại Gia Lai tham gia.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/anh-116-1554.jpg?width=0&s=H4adCIJT5caNZQpnCLZrHg"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Ông Lâm Hải Giang - Phó Chủ tịch UBND tỉnh Gia Lai phát biểu tại Lễ trao giải Cuộc thi Robotacon Gia Lai mở rộng năm 2025. Ảnh: CTV<p>Các đội thi được chia thành năm bảng đấu: bảng B0 dành cho học sinh Tiểu học, bảng B2 và B4 dành cho học sinh THCS, bảng Bóng đá và bảng Sumo dành cho cả hai lứa tuổi.</p><p>Mỗi bảng có hình thức thi đấu khác nhau, từ lắp ráp và lập trình robot tự động trên sa bàn, đến thi đấu đối kháng như Sumo - nơi hai robot tranh tài trực tiếp trên võ đài hình tròn.</p><p>Cuộc thi không chỉ rèn luyện kỹ năng tư duy logic và làm việc nhóm cho học sinh, mà còn góp phần nuôi dưỡng đam mê với công nghệ và kỹ thuật.</p><p>Phát biểu tại buổi lễ, bà Vibeke Holtum Bendix Nørgaard - Tham tán ngành giáo dục, Đại sứ quán Đan Mạch tại Việt Nam, bày tỏ vui mừng khi có mặt tại sự kiện.</p><p>Bà đánh giá đây là sân chơi thiết thực để học sinh áp dụng kiến thức vào thực tế, đồng thời rèn luyện các kỹ năng quan trọng cho tương lai. Bà hy vọng sẽ được thấy các đội đến từ Gia Lai tham dự vòng chung kết toàn quốc và thế giới diễn ra tại Singapore vào tháng 11 năm nay.</p><p>Tại lễ tổng kết, Ban Tổ chức đã trao các giải Nhất, Nhì, Ba cho từng bảng đấu. Năm đội giành giải Nhất gồm: đội Như Lộc - Trường Tiểu học Như Lộc (bảng Bóng đá); đội Cát Tài - Trường THCS Cát Tài (bảng Sumo); đội Ngô Mây 1 - Trường Tiểu học số 1 Ngô Mây (bảng B0); đội Lê Hồng Phong- Trường THCS Lê Hồng Phong (bảng B2); và đội Chiến binh - Trường Tiểu học, THCS và THPT Ischool Quy Nhơn (bảng B4).</p><p>Ba đội đứng đầu bảng B0 và B2 sẽ được tham gia vòng chung kết khu vực miền Trung và miền Nam, trong khi đội đoạt giải Nhất bảng B4 sẽ đại diện tham dự vòng chung kết quốc gia.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/anh-217-1555.jpg?width=0&s=waZYUaTCoYyzZJWI9UVgIA"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Ông Lâm Hải Giang - Phó Chủ tịch UBND tỉnh Gia Lai và bà Vibeke Holtum Bendix Nørgaard trao giải cho các đội đạt giải Nhất. Ảnh: CTV<p>Tại lễ trao giải, ông Lâm Hải Giang - Phó Chủ tịch UBND tỉnh Gia Lai đánh giá cao sáng kiến tổ chức cuộc thi do Sở Khoa học và Công nghệ chủ trì. Ông cho rằng đây không chỉ là một cuộc thi đơn thuần, mà còn là hoạt động thực tiễn nhằm hiện thực hóa các mục tiêu chiến lược của tỉnh trong phát triển khoa học, công nghệ và giáo dục.</p><p>“Cuộc thi đã góp phần khơi dậy đam mê lĩnh vực STEM, đặc biệt là robotics, giúp học sinh rèn luyện kỹ năng tư duy, sáng tạo và giải quyết vấn đề - những năng lực thiết yếu của công dân toàn cầu trong tương lai”, ông Giang nói.</p><p>Để phát huy hiệu quả của cuộc thi và lan tỏa phong trào giáo dục STEM, Phó Chủ tịch tỉnh Gia Lai đề nghị Sở Giáo dục và Đào tạo sớm xây dựng kế hoạch triển khai Đề án phát triển giáo dục STEM giai đoạn 2025 - 2030. Trong đó, cần đặc biệt chú trọng đến hoạt động STEM hướng nghiệp, đồng thời đưa nội dung STEM Robotics vào chương trình trải nghiệm sáng tạo tại các trường phổ thông.</p><p>Ông Phó Chủ tịch UBND tỉnh Gia Lai cũng giao Sở Khoa học và Công nghệ tiếp tục khai thác hiệu quả Trung tâm Khám phá Khoa học và Đổi mới sáng tạo như một mô hình mẫu cấp tỉnh để triển khai các chương trình STEM cho học sinh. Đồng thời cần nghiên cứu giải pháp phối hợp hỗ trợ các mô hình khởi nghiệp công nghệ cho học sinh.</p><p>Ông Lâm Hải Giang đồng thời kêu gọi các địa phương, cơ sở giáo dục quan tâm đầu tư cơ sở vật chất, tạo điều kiện để học sinh tiếp cận thiết bị công nghệ hiện đại. Ông mong muốn các đơn vị phối hợp, doanh nghiệp sẽ tiếp tục đồng hành và mở rộng quy mô cuộc thi trong thời gian tới.</p><p>Nam Hà</p> 118 học sinh Gia Lai lần đầu thi tài năng Robotacon	查看 4393	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213310	有图 <p>Cơ quan An ninh điều tra Công an Hà Nội vừa có văn bản trả lời Công ty cổ phần Văn hóa và truyền thông Nhã Nam (Công ty Nhã Nam) về việc giải quyết vụ việc có dấu hiệu tội phạm lợi dụng các quyền tự do dân chủ xâm phạm quyền, lợi ích hợp pháp của tổ chức, cá nhân mà Công ty Nhã Nam đã có đơn tố giác trước đó.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/493748974-980810540916925-2076876140020616210-n-1692.jpg?width=0&s=hGb5N0xe_oa6evtk9GEzeA"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Tác giả Đặng Hoàng Giang. Ảnh: FBNV<p>Theo Cơ quan An ninh điều tra Công an Hà Nội, căn cứ tài liệu, chứng cứ, cơ quan này xác định hành vi đăng tải các bài viết sai sự thật trên tài khoản Facebook cá nhân "Giang Dang" của ông Đặng Hoàng Giang (60 tuổi, quốc tịch Áo; tạm trú tại Hà Nội) có dấu hiệu của tội lợi dụng các quyền tự do dân chủ, xâm phạm quyền, lợi ích hợp pháp của tổ chức, cá nhân quy định tại điều 331 bộ luật hình sự.</p><p>Tuy nhiên, xét thấy chưa đến mức xử lý hình sự nên ngày 26/6, Cơ quan An ninh điều tra Công an Hà Nội ra quyết định không khởi tố vụ án hình sự và có văn bản gửi các cơ quan chức năng để xử lý về hành chính đối với ông Đặng Hoàng Giang.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/untitled-1-copy-1693.png?width=0&s=zsJuJMyOeVWd-tOYKRfjQQ"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Công ty Nhã Nam thông báo về việc dừng hợp tác với ông Đặng Hoàng Giang. Ảnh: Chụp màn hình.</p><p>Cụ thể, Cơ quan An ninh điều tra đề nghị Sở VH-TT Hà Nội xử phạt hành chính trong lĩnh vực bưu chính, viễn thông, tần số vô tuyến điện, công nghệ thông tin và giao dịch điện tử quy định tại Nghị định 15/2020/NĐ-CP. Đồng thời, kiến nghị Bộ Nội vụ thu hồi giấy phép lao động của ông Đặng Hoàng Giang theo quy định tại Nghị định số 152/2020/NĐ-CP.</p><p>Trước đó, tháng 4/2024, mạng xã hội Facebook xuất hiện các bài viết "tố" ông Nguyễn Nhật Anh, khi đó là Tổng giám đốc Công ty Nhã Nam đã quấy rối tình dục cấp dưới.</p><p>Ông Nguyễn Nhật Anh sau đó đã đăng tải lời xin lỗi, thừa nhận "đã có một số hành động thể hiện sự quan tâm, quý mến" đối với nữ nhân viên và cho biết: "Hành động này không vượt quá các giới hạn đạo đức giữa con người với con người và nằm trong bối cảnh cụ thể. Nhưng điều tôi không lường được là vô tình gây bối rối, làm phiền và có thể gây tổn thương với cô ấy".</p><p>Ban Giám đốc Công ty Nhã Nam đã quyết định tạm thời ngừng vị trí công tác của ông Nguyễn Nhật Anh vì liên quan đến cáo buộc này.</p><p>Ngay sau khi Công an Hà Nội thông báo về vụ việc, Nhã Nam cũng đã có thông cáo chính thức tới các cơ quan báo chí, VietNamNet xin trích đăng:</p><p>"Ngày 10/7/2025, Cơ quan An ninh điều tra - Công an TP Hà Nội đã ra văn bản trả lời Công ty cổ phần Văn hóa và Truyền thông Nhã Nam (Công ty Nhã Nam) về kết quả điều tra và xử lý đối với ông Đặng Hoàng Giang, liên quan đến các thông tin bịa đặt, khu khống, làm nhục người khác và xâm phạm quyền, lợi ích hợp pháp đối với Công ty Nhã Nam và ông Nguyễn Nhật Anh, Tổng giám đốc Công ty Nhã Nam. </p><p>Trước đó, tháng 6/2024, ông Nguyễn Nhật Anh và Công ty Nhã Nam đã gửi đơn tố cáo ông Đặng Hoàng Giang (sinh năm 1965, quốc tịch Áo, tạm trú ở phường Ngọc Thụy, TP. Hà Nội) về hành vi vi phạm pháp luật: thông tin sai sự thật, vu khống, làm nhục người khác và lợi dụng quyền tự do dân chủ xâm phạm quyền, lợi ích hợp pháp của tổ chức, cá nhân.</p><p>Tháng 7/2024, Công an Hà Nội phân công Cơ quan An ninh điều tra giải quyết vụ việc có dấu hiệu tội phạm “Lợi dụng các quyền tự do dân chủ xâm phạm quyền, lợi ích hợp pháp của tổ chức, cá nhân”. Cơ quan An ninh điều tra Công an TP Hà Nội đã tiến hành xác minh, điều tra theo quy định của pháp luật.</p><p>Tháng 6/2025, căn cứ tài liệu, chứng cứ thu thập được, Cơ quan An ninh điều tra xác định: “Hành vi đăng tải các bài viết sai sự thật trên tài khoản Facebook cá nhân “Giang Dang” của ông Đặng Hoàng Giang có dấu hiệu của tội phạm Lợi dụng các quyền tự do dân chủ xâm phạm quyền, lợi ích hợp pháp của tổ chức quy định tại</p><p>"Hành vi đưa tin sai sự thật của ông Đặng Hoàng Giang đã gây thiệt hại lớn với công ty Nhã Nam và ông Nguyễn Nhật Anh, gây tổn hại về danh dự, sức khỏe cho cá nhân, gây tổn hại uy tín và thiệt hại kinh tế cho công ty.</p><p>Đến nay, sau hơn 1 năm điều tra làm rõ, Công an Hà Nội đã có kết luận rõ ràng về vụ việc đi kèm hình thức xử lý với ông Đặng Hoàng Giang.</p><p>Khi vụ việc xảy ra vào tháng 4/2024, công ty Nhã Nam đã cam kết sẽ điều tra, làm rõ và có thông tin đầy đủ cho công luận được biết. Trong những vụ việc nhạy cảm, với tính chất hành vi như của ông Đặng Hoàng Giang, chúng tôi đã phải đưa ra cơ quan chức năng, là nơi có đủ nghiệp vụ, thẩm quyền để tiến hành điều tra, kết luận.</p><p>Nay với kết quả này, Nhã Nam xin được chính thức thông tin tới các cơ quan báo chí, truyền thông".</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Tác giả Đặng Hoàng Giang và Nhã Nam ngừng hợp tácSau gần một thập kỷ hợp tác với 5 đầu sách ra mắt, tác giả Đặng Hoàng Giang và công ty sách Nhã Nam không tiếp tục đồng hành.</p> Công an Hà Nội thông tin vụ TS. Đặng Hoàng Giang đăng tin sai sự thật về Nhã Nam	查看 5343	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213309	有图 <p>Bộ Tài chính đang lấy ý kiến về hồ sơ Nghị quyết điều chỉnh mức giảm trừ gia cảnh của thuế thu nhập cá nhân (TNCN).</p><p>Theo tờ trình dự thảo Nghị quyết của Ủy ban Thường vụ Quốc hội về điều chỉnh mức giảm trừ gia cảnh của thuế TNCN, Bộ Tài chính đề xuất 2 phương án điều chỉnh mức giảm trừ gia cảnh để trình cấp thẩm quyền xem xét quyết định.</p><p>Phương án 1: Điều chỉnh mức giảm trừ gia cảnh theo tốc độ tăng CPI theo quy định.</p><p>Theo số liệu của Cục Thống kê thì chỉ số CPI từ năm 2020 đến năm 2025 lũy kế dự kiến tăng 21,24% thì xem xét điều chỉnh tương ứng như sau: Mức giảm trừ gia cảnh cho bản thân người nộp thuế từ 11 triệu đồng/tháng lên khoảng 13,3 triệu đồng/tháng; mức giảm trừ cho người phụ thuộc từ 4,4 triệu đồng/tháng lên 5,3 triệu đồng/tháng.</p><p>Bộ Tài chính đánh giá phương án này đúng theo Luật Thuế TNCN hiện hành, bám sát phương diện cơ sở áp dụng các khoản giảm trừ theo nhu cầu thiết yếu của cuộc sống và mức độ trượt giá từ thời điểm điều chỉnh gần nhất (năm 2020).</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/thue-thu-nhap-ca-nhan-1709.jpg?width=0&s=Mwh7H2NZZI0Ve7jz31tXbA"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Bộ Tài chính đề xuất nâng giảm trừ gia cảnh lên cao nhất 15,5 triệu đồng/tháng.<p>Phương án 2: Điều chỉnh mức giảm trừ gia cảnh theo tốc độ tăng thu nhập bình quân đầu người và tốc độ tăng GDP bình quân đầu người.</p><p>Theo số liệu của Cục Thống kê thì biến động về chỉ số thu nhập bình quân đầu người và tốc độ tăng GDP bình quân đầu người từ năm 2020 đến năm 2025 lần lượt tăng 40% và 42%.</p><p>Vì vậy, có thể điều chỉnh mức giảm trừ gia cảnh cho bản thân người nộp thuế từ 11 triệu đồng/tháng lên khoảng 15,5 triệu đồng/tháng và mức giảm trừ cho mỗi người phụ thuộc từ 4,4 triệu đồng/tháng lên 6,2 triệu đồng/tháng.</p><p>Bộ Tài chính cho rằng phương án này sẽ góp phần giảm nghĩa vụ thuế cho người nộp ở mức cao hơn. Nếu thực hiện theo phương án này, ngân sách sẽ giảm thu, nhưng khi mức giảm trừ gia cảnh cao hơn thì nộp thuế ít đi, thu nhập khả dụng của người dân tăng lên. Qua đó, góp phần kích thích tăng chi tiêu hộ gia đình, tiêu dùng xã hội và gián tiếp giúp tăng thu ngân sách từ các nguồn khác trong trung, dài hạn.</p><p>Cụ thể, nếu thực hiện theo phương án thứ nhất thì giảm thu ngân sách nhà nước là 12.000 tỷ đồng; còn theo phương án thứ hai, giảm thu ngân sách nhà nước là 21.000 tỷ đồng.</p><p>Tuy nhiên, theo Bộ Tài chính, số giảm thu có thể được bù đắp một phần từ số tăng thu của các sắc thuế tiêu dùng khác do thu nhập khả dụng của người nộp thuế tăng.</p><p>Mức giảm trừ gia cảnh mới dự kiến sẽ được thực hiện kể từ khi Nghị quyết có hiệu lực thi hành và áp dụng từ kỳ tính thuế năm 2026.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Hé lộ thay đổi quan trọng khi sửa thuế thu nhập cá nhân, triệu người mong chờ</p><p>Bộ Tài chính đang gấp rút hoàn thiện dự thảo Luật Thuế thu nhập cá nhân (thay thế), với nhiều điều chỉnh theo hướng sát thực tiễn, hỗ trợ người dân và dự kiến trình Quốc hội vào kỳ họp tháng 10 tới.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Triệu gia đình chờ điều chỉnh thuế thu nhập cá nhân, nâng mức giảm trừ gia cảnh</p><p>Chuyên gia cho rằng, nâng mức giảm trừ gia cảnh, đẩy sớm lộ trình sửa đổi Luật Thuế thu nhập cá nhân sẽ là điều đáng mừng cho hàng triệu gia đình.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Kiến nghị bán chứng khoán có lãi mới phải nộp thuế thu nhập cá nhân</p><p>Hiệp hội Các nhà đầu tư tài chính Việt Nam kiến nghị cần áp dụng phương pháp CGT - có lãi mới chịu thuế, để tính thuế thu nhập cá nhân với giao dịch chuyển nhượng chứng khoán.</p></p> Bộ Tài chính đề xuất nâng giảm trừ gia cảnh lên cao nhất 15,5 triệu đồng/tháng	查看 3956	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213308	有图 <p>Theo Mirror, sự cố xảy ra tại một cơ sở y tế ở Westbury, New York (Mỹ). Nạn nhân đi vào phòng chụp cộng hưởng từ (MRI) trong lúc máy đang hoạt động. “Ông ấy đeo một sợi dây kim loại lớn quanh cổ nên bị hút vào máy”, cảnh sát cho hay. Dù được cấp cứu nhưng nạn nhân không qua khỏi.</p><p>Chụp MRI nhìn chung là thủ thuật an toàn và không gây đau đớn, kéo dài từ 15 đến 90 phút. Tuy nhiên, máy MRI tạo ra từ trường cực mạnh, có thể ảnh hưởng đến các vật thể hoặc thiết bị kim loại trong cơ thể người có mặt quanh đó. Vì vậy, việc tháo bỏ mọi vật dụng kim loại là điều bắt buộc trước khi vào căn phòng này.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/thay-anh-1734.jpg?width=0&s=7MMrB8iV0XAHT2KmaSN4IA"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Khi vào phòng chụp MRI, bạn cần lưu ý một số điều. Ảnh minh họa: Dicardiology<p>Theo Dịch vụ Y tế Quốc gia Anh (NHS), những vật cần tháo bỏ bao gồm đồng hồ, trang sức như nhẫn và dây chuyền, khuyên tai, hàm giả, máy trợ thính, tóc giả (một số loại chứa kim loại)...</p><p>Bên cạnh đó, người bệnh cũng được thay trang phục chuyên dùng chụp MRI. Nếu cơ sở y tế không cung cấp trang phục, người bệnh mặc quần áo không có khóa kéo, khuy, gọng kim loại (trong áo ngực), thắt lưng hoặc khóa gài.</p><p>Ngoài ra, người bệnh cũng cần thông báo với bác sĩ nếu sử dụng các vật dụng, thiết bị kim loại như máy tạo nhịp tim, máy khử rung tim cấy dưới da, đinh vít trong trong phẫu thuật xương, máy kích thích thần kinh, cấy ốc tai điện tử, van tim nhân tạo, khớp nhân tạo (như khớp háng hoặc gối)… Từ đó, bác sĩ sẽ đưa ra chỉ định phù hợp.</p><p>Việc khai báo đầy đủ các vật thể kim loại trên hoặc trong cơ thể sẽ giúp đảm bảo an toàn tuyệt đối cho bệnh nhân khi thực hiện chụp MRI.</p><p>Về mặt nguyên tắc, vào ngày chụp MRI, người bệnh có thể ăn uống và sử dụng các loại thuốc được kê theo đơn như bình thường. Tuy nhiên, trong một số trường hợp, họ được yêu cầu không ăn hoặc uống bất cứ thứ gì trong tối đa 4 giờ trước khi chụp để việc khảo sát hình ảnh được rõ ràng hơn.</p><p>Khi chụp MRI, người bệnh sẽ nằm trên một chiếc giường có động cơ di chuyển bên trong máy chụp điểu khiển qua máy tính.</p><p>Để tránh ảnh chụp bị mờ, mất nét, bệnh nhân giữ cố định phần cơ thể cần khảo sát trong quá trình chụp cho đến khi bác sĩ thông báo đã kết thúc. Trong quá trình chụp, máy quét MRI sẽ tạo ra tiếng ồn khá lớn. Người bệnh có thể đeo nút tai để hạn chế bớt tiếng ồn và nghe hướng dẫn của nhân viên y tế rõ hơn.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Người đàn ông tử vong do đeo sợi dây lớn vào phòng chiếu chụp của bệnh viện</p><p>MỸ - Người đàn ông 61 tuổi đã tử vong sau khi bị hút vào máy chụp cộng hưởng từ (MRI) của bệnh viện.</p></p> Người đàn ông tử vong trong phòng chụp MRI, vật dụng gì tuyệt đối cấm mang vào?	查看 2898	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213307	有图 <p>Hôm nay (21/7) Phòng CSGT, Công an TPHCM cho biết, sau khi tiếp nhận công tác sát hạch, cấp GPLX từ Sở GTVT (nay là Sở Xây dựng), Phòng CSGT đã tổ chức 220 kỳ sát hạch, với khoảng 70.000 thí sinh.</p><p>Đến nay, toàn TP có khoảng 60.000 thí sinh hoàn thành chương trình đào tạo tại các cơ sở đào tạo lái xe nhưng chưa được tổ chức sát hạch để được cấp GPLX.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/csgt-tphcm-2-1740.png?width=0&s=l_FwMw2IXYeKcgtMFy1WFg"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>CSGT TPHCM tổ chức 9 kỳ sát hạch mỗi ngày, với hơn 6.000 thí sinh tham dự. Ảnh: CSGT TPHCM.<p>Do đó, để đáp ứng nhu cầu người dân, giải quyết các hồ sơ tồn đọng, đồng thời xác định đây là vấn đề liên quan đến uy tín, danh dự của lực lượng CAND nói chung, CSGT nói riêng, Phòng CSGT, Công an TPHCM đã huy động tối đa lực lượng sát hạch viên tổ chức sát hạch, cấp GPLX.</p><p>Đến nay, mỗi ngày CSGT TPHCM tổ chức 9 kỳ sát hạch với tổng cộng hơn 6.000 thí sinh tham dự.</p><p>Các kỳ sát hạch được tổ chức liên tục từ 7h30 sáng đến 21h tối hàng ngày, kể cả thứ bảy và chủ nhật.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/csgt-tphcm-3-1741.png?width=0&s=f8SldJyJz9UOkBlJ3Xho1g"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/csgt-tphcm-1-1742.png?width=0&s=7L1BtzeI2lPDHbaAVH5V3w"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>CSGT TPHCM tăng ca, làm việc từ 7h30 sáng đến 21h tối, kể cả thứ bảy, chủ nhật để sát hạch, cấp, đổi GPLX cho người dân. ẢNh: CSGT TPHCM.<p>Đại diện Phòng CSGT cho biết: “Chúng tôi tạo điều kiện thuận lợi tối đa cho người dân trong việc hoàn thành thủ tục cấp, đổi giấy phép lái xe; đồng thời từng tổ sát hạch được phân công nhiệm vụ rõ ràng để đảm bảo tổ chức kỳ thi một cách khoa học, nghiêm túc, đúng quy định. Quy trình sát hạch diễn ra thông suốt nhờ sự phối hợp hiệu quả giữa các bộ phận chuyên môn, giúp đảm bảo chất lượng và tiến độ theo kế hoạch.</p><p>Song song đó, dữ liệu thí sinh đạt, vắng hoặc không đạt được báo cáo và truyền ngay trong ngày về Cục CSGT để kịp thời phê duyệt và cấp GPLX, từ đó rút ngắn tối đa thời gian chờ đợi cho người dân”</p><p>Phòng CSGT cho biết thêm, mục tiêu đến ngày 30/7 sẽ hoàn tất việc tổ chức sát hạch, cấp GPLX cho toàn bộ số thí sinh còn tồn đọng trên địa bàn.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>TPHCM lập 17 tổ công tác chỉ đạo đại hội đảng bộ cấp cơ sở</p><p>Thành ủy TPHCM vừa ban hành Thông báo về phân công các thành viên Ban Chỉ đạo đại hội tham dự và trực tiếp chỉ đạo đại hội ở Đảng bộ phường, xã, đặc khu và cấp trên trực tiếp cơ sở, nhiệm kỳ 2025 - 2030.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Cá sấu thường xuyên lên mô đất tắm nắng ở TPHCM đã bị vây bắt</p><p>Phát hiện cá sấu trên kênh Nước Đen, lực lượng chức năng phường Bình Hưng Hoà (TPHCM) đã tổ chức vây bắt.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Nhiều ô tô bị cây thông đè bẹp trong mưa gió ở Đà Lạt</p><p>Mưa lớn kèm gió giật mạnh làm cây thông bật gốc, đè lên nhiều ô tô đang đỗ tại phường Xuân Hương - Đà Lạt (tỉnh Lâm Đồng), khiến phương tiện bị hư hỏng.</p></p> CSGT TPHCM tăng ca đến 21h để sát hạch, cấp GPLX cho người dân	查看 3716	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213306	有图 <p>L3Harris Technologies, một trong những tập đoàn quốc phòng hàng đầu của Mỹ, đã chính thức giới thiệu dòng tên lửa mini mô-đun mới mang tên Wolf Pack, bao gồm hai biến thể chính là Red Wolf và Green Wolf.</p><p>Được công bố ngày 17/7, các tên lửa này được thiết kế để đáp ứng nhu cầu cấp bách của Bộ Quốc phòng Mỹ (DoD) về các loại vũ khí giá rẻ, linh hoạt, có khả năng triển khai trên nhiều nền tảng và phù hợp với chiến lược ‘affordable mass’ (số lượng lớn, chi phí thấp).</p><p>Bài viết này sẽ phân tích chi tiết về công nghệ, tính năng, ý nghĩa chiến lược và tiềm năng ứng dụng của dòng tên lửa này dựa trên các nguồn thông tin The War Zone và Rossiyskaya Gazeta.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/ten-lua-my-5-672.jpg?width=0&s=u5qqBVbjnZMooPo82WWVww"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Hình ảnh đồ họa so sánh Red Wolf và Green Wolf đặt cạnh nhau, cho thấy chúng gần như giống hệt nhau về mặt hình dáng bên ngoài. Nguồn: L3Harris.<p>Tổng quan về công nghệ Wolf Pack</p><p>Dòng tên lửa Wolf Pack của L3Harris bao gồm các phương tiện tác chiến được gọi là ‘launched effects vehicles’, với hai biến thể chính là Red Wolf, được thiết kế cho các cuộc tấn công chính xác tầm xa nhằm vào các mục tiêu trên đất liền hoặc trên biển.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Tên lửa tầm xa Mỹ, công nghệ thay đổi cuộc chơi hay ngòi nổ xung đột Nga-Ukraine?<p>Đây là biến thể mang đầu đạn động năng (kinetic payload) với khả năng ‘phát hiện, nhận diện, định vị và báo cáo’ mục tiêu trong khu vực chiến đấu.</p><p>Green Wolf được trang bị hệ thống tác chiến điện tử (electronic warfare payload), tập trung vào việc phát hiện và vô hiệu hóa các hệ thống phòng không đối phương bằng cách định vị tín hiệu phát ra từ chúng, đồng thời hỗ trợ mở đường cho các tên lửa Red Wolf tấn công.</p><p>Cả hai biến thể đều có thiết kế mô-đun, cho phép tích hợp linh hoạt nhiều loại tải trọng khác nhau, từ đầu đạn động năng, thiết bị tác chiến điện tử, đến các khả năng như làm mồi nhử, theo dõi mục tiêu, hoặc chuyển tiếp thông tin liên lạc.</p><p>Chúng có thể được phóng từ nhiều nền tảng, bao gồm trên không (máy bay, trực thăng), trên bộ (xe tải, bệ phóng di động) và trên biển (tàu chiến).</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/ten-lua-my-673.jpg?width=0&s=SIivyB2fRCiO3P9aoi4JWg"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Tên lửa Red Wolf. Nguồn: L3Harris<p>Thông số kỹ thuật và hiệu suất</p><p>Theo các thông tin được công bố, Wolf Pack sở hữu các đặc điểm kỹ thuật nổi bật với tầm bắn hơn 200 hải lý (khoảng 370km) ở độ cao thấp, với khả năng bay hơn 60 phút.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Công nghệ tên lửa Patriot Mỹ: Radar đồng loạt khóa mục tiêu, cứu Kyiv trước ‘bão UAV’<p>Điều này vượt xa tầm bắn của các tên lửa hiện tại như AGM-114 Hellfire hay AGM-179 JAGM được sử dụng trên trực thăng AH-1Z của Thủy quân Lục chiến Mỹ.</p><p>Tên lửa đạt tốc độ cận âm cao (high subsonic), với trần bay khoảng 12.192m.</p><p>Tên lửa có thiết kế khí động học với cánh chính và cánh đuôi có thể thu vào, cùng hai cửa hút khí ở phía sau cung cấp không khí cho động cơ phản lực mini (turbojet).</p><p>Thiết kế này bao gồm một đường gờ (keel line) chạy dọc thân và mũi hình xẻng, giúp tối ưu hóa tính khí động học và có thể giảm tiết diện radar (RCS).</p><p>Mặc dù thông tin chi tiết về các tính năng sống sót chưa được công bố, L3Harris ám chỉ rằng thiết kế của tên lửa có tính đến yếu tố giảm tiết diện radar, nhưng đồng thời cũng nhấn mạnh rằng trong một số trường hợp, họ muốn đối phương ‘nhìn thấy’ tên lửa để dụ họ sử dụng các tên lửa phòng không đắt tiền (như tên lửa trị giá 2-3 triệu USD), từ đó tạo lợi thế kinh tế trong chiến đấu.</p><p>Quá trình phát triển và thử nghiệm</p><p>Dòng tên lửa Wolf Pack bắt đầu được phát triển từ năm 2020 và đã trải qua hơn 40 chuyến bay thử nghiệm, đánh dấu tiến độ phát triển nhanh chóng từ ý tưởng đến giai đoạn sản xuất ban đầu với số lượng thấp.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Tên lửa đạn đạo mang đầu đạn hạt nhân Ấn Độ vừa thử nghiệm có công nghệ gì đặc biệt?<p>L3Harris đã đầu tư vào cơ sở sản xuất mô-đun tại Ashburn, Virginia, với kế hoạch sản xuất hàng trăm đơn vị mỗi năm, tận dụng dây chuyền tự động hóa để giảm chi phí và tăng tốc độ giao hàng.</p><p>Dự án Red Wolf ban đầu được phát triển bí mật dưới sự bảo trợ của Văn phòng năng lực chiến lược (Strategic Capabilities Office) của Lầu Năm Góc và được công khai lần đầu tại sự kiện Experimentation Demonstration Gateway Event (EDGE 21) của Quân đội Mỹ vào năm 2021.</p><p>Thủy quân Lục chiến Mỹ hiện đang tích cực thử nghiệm Red Wolf trong dự án tên lửa tấn công tầm xa (LRAM), với mục tiêu tăng cường khả năng tấn công tầm xa cho trực thăng AH-1Z Viper, đạt tầm bắn tối thiểu 150 hải lý (khoảng 278km).</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/ten-lua-my-1-674.jpg?width=0&s=3t9RjRTK70-m9c6WWSplAA"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Tên lửa hành trình Green Wolf - vũ khí thế hệ mới đầy triển vọng.<p>Ý nghĩa chiến lược</p><p>Wolf Pack là một phần trong xu hướng phát triển vũ khí giá rẻ, có thể sản xuất hàng loạt, nhằm đáp ứng nhu cầu ngày càng tăng về ‘khối lượng giá rẻ’ trong các cuộc xung đột hiện đại, đặc biệt từ bài học ở Ukraine và Trung Đông.</p><p>Với chi phí ước tính từ 300.000 đến 400.000 USD mỗi đơn vị (tùy thuộc vào tải trọng), Red Wolf và Green Wolf rẻ hơn đáng kể so với các tên lửa hành trình truyền thống như AGM-158 JASSM (hơn 1 triệu USD mỗi quả).</p><p>Điều này cho phép Mỹ và các đồng minh xây dựng kho dự trữ lớn, đủ sức đối phó với các cuộc chiến tiêu hao kéo dài.</p><p>Thiết kế mô-đun và khả năng phóng từ nhiều nền tảng giúp Wolf Pack trở thành vũ khí đa năng, có thể tích hợp vào các hệ thống không quân (F/A-18E/F, F-35, AH-1Z, MH-60 Seahawk), lục quân và hải quân.</p><p>Điều này mang lại sự linh hoạt chiến thuật, cho phép các lực lượng Mỹ triển khai nhanh chóng các phương tiện tấn công hoặc tác chiến điện tử trong môi trường tranh chấp.</p><p>Phần mềm của Wolf Pack hỗ trợ khả năng tác chiến theo bầy đàn (swarming), cho phép các tên lửa phối hợp với nhau trong thời gian thực, tái định hướng mục tiêu trong quá trình bay và tạo ra các chiến thuật phức tạp như sử dụng Green Wolf để phát hiện và làm nhiễu hệ thống phòng không, trong khi Red Wolf thực hiện các đòn tấn công chính xác.</p><p>Ngoài ra, L3Harris cũng đề xuất các biến thể mồi nhử (decoy) trong tương lai, có thể làm tăng thêm sự phức tạp và hiệu quả khi đối phó với các hệ thống phòng thủ đối phương.</p><p>Ứng dụng tiềm năng</p><p>Red Wolf hiện đang được thử nghiệm để tích hợp trên trực thăng AH-1Z Viper và MH-60 Seahawk, với tiềm năng mở rộng sang các máy bay khác như F/A-18E/F và F-35.</p><p>Điều này sẽ tăng cường đáng kể khả năng tấn công tầm xa của các lực lượng này, đặc biệt trong các kịch bản tác chiến ở khu vực Ấn Độ - Thái Bình Dương, nơi các mục tiêu di động trên biển là ưu tiên hàng đầu.</p><p>Với chi phí thấp và khả năng sản xuất hàng loạt, Wolf Pack có thể được sử dụng để áp đảo các hệ thống phòng không đối phương, đặc biệt trong các kịch bản chiến tranh công nghệ cao với Trung Quốc hoặc Nga.</p><p>L3Harris đã tích hợp khả năng gắn dù cho một số tên lửa, cho phép thu hồi và tái sử dụng trong huấn luyện, giảm chi phí và tăng tính linh hoạt khi sử dụng các tải trọng đắt tiền.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Hàn Quốc tung ‘át chủ bài’ trên biển: Công nghệ trực thăng MAH Marineon xé gió Đông Á</p><p>Trong bối cảnh căng thẳng địa chính trị khu vực ngày càng gia tăng, Hàn Quốc đã ghi dấu cột mốc quan trọng với việc thử nghiệm thành công trực thăng tấn công trên biển MAH Marineon.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Công nghệ UAV đánh chặn mới của Ukraine, tốc độ 300 km/h, săn diệt hàng trăm Shahed mỗi đêm</p><p>Trong bối cảnh xung đột Nga-Ukraine leo thang, các cuộc tấn công bằng máy bay không người lái (UAV) của Nga, đặc biệt là các UAV Shahed do Iran thiết kế, đã trở thành mối đe dọa nghiêm trọng đối với các thành phố lớn của Ukraine, bao gồm thủ đô Kyiv.</p></p> Siêu tên lửa Red Wolf, Green Wolf mới Mỹ khiến hệ thống phòng không ‘tắt sóng’	查看 8778	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213305	有图 <p>Bảng xếp hạng được tổ chức WIN – Mạng lưới Nghiên cứu Thị trường Độc lập Toàn cầu công bố ngày 16/7, dựa trên khảo sát hơn 33.000 người tại 40 quốc gia thuộc 5 châu lục.</p><p>Kết quả được tính toán dựa trên 7 chỉ số thành phần: mức độ sử dụng AI, mức độ tin cậy AI, mức độ chấp nhận AI, mức độ hiệu quả AI, khả năng sử dụng AI, mức độ thoải mái với AI, mức độ quan tâm đến AI.</p><p>Tại Việt Nam, khảo sát do Indochina Research thực hiện với 900 người ở 4 thành phố lớn, diễn ra từ tháng 12/2024 đến tháng 1/2025.</p><p>Với 59,2 điểm trên thang 100, Việt Nam xếp thứ 6, trên nhiều quốc gia phát triển như Hàn Quốc, Australia, Nhật Bản trong bảng xếp hạng toàn cầu. Đặc biệt, Việt Nam đứng thứ 3 về mức độ tin tưởng AI (65,6 điểm) và thứ 5 về mức độ chấp nhận AI (71,6 điểm).</p><p>Dù niềm tin và sự quan tâm dành cho AI ở mức cao, mức độ sử dụng thực tế tại Việt Nam vẫn còn hạn chế, chỉ đạt 37,6 điểm – xếp thứ 17/40, mức thấp nhất trong 4 chỉ số thành phần.</p><p>Dữ liệu cho thấy khoảng 60% người được khảo sát từng dùng AI, nhưng chỉ 3% sử dụng hằng ngày.</p><p>Chênh lệch còn thể hiện rõ qua vị trí địa lý và độ tuổi: gần 90% người từ 18–24 tuổi ở Hà Nội và TP.HCM đã từng sử dụng AI, trong khi tỷ lệ này giảm mạnh ở Đà Nẵng, Cần Thơ, đặc biệt ở nhóm tuổi từ 55 trở lên.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/vietnam-bxh-ai-1784.png?width=0&s=2aW4XwMMG8BT5yxPYYkOpQ"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Điểm số 7 thành phần của Việt Nam. Nguồn: Indochina Research<p>Theo ông Xavier Depouilly, Tổng Giám đốc Indochina Research Vietnam, đây là tín hiệu cho thấy một bộ phận lớn dân cư đô thị tại Việt Nam – đặc biệt là giới trẻ – đang chủ động tiếp cận công nghệ mới.</p><p>“Thế hệ trẻ Việt Nam sẵn sàng đón nhận công nghệ và điều đó đóng vai trò lớn trong quá trình tăng trưởng kinh tế nhanh và chuyển đổi số của đất nước”, ông nói.</p><p>Ngoài ra, báo cáo của Indochina Research cũng hé lộ những quan ngại của người dùng đối với AI. Tương tự các nước châu Á – Thái Bình Dương, người Việt lo lắng nhất về quyền riêng tư dữ liệu, cách AI thu thập và sử dụng thông tin cá nhân (52%).</p><p>Khoảng 48% người tham gia khảo sát lo sợ bị AI thay thế trong công việc. Chỉ 36% bày tỏ lo ngại về thông tin sai lệch (deepfake, thao túng dư luận).</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/screenshot-21-7-2025-13146-apppowerbicom-1785.jpeg?width=0&s=qedXSc3YfsN1cYkeWGo-Pg"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Việt Nam xếp hạng 6/40 quốc gia trong Bảng Chỉ số AI Thế giới 2025. Ảnh chụp màn hình<p>Indochina Research đánh giá, với mức độ tin tưởng và thái độ tích cực cao, Việt Nam đang có nhiều lợi thế để bứt phá trong cuộc đua AI toàn cầu.</p><p>Tuy nhiên, để tận dụng tiềm năng này, cần mở rộng khả năng tiếp cận AI đến các nhóm dân cư lớn tuổi và khu vực ngoài đô thị.</p><p>Song song đó là việc xây dựng hệ sinh thái AI tin cậy, an toàn và thân thiện với người dùng. Sự phát triển này không chỉ đến từ công nghệ mà còn cần sự hỗ trợ từ chính sách, giáo dục và truyền thông – nhằm rút ngắn khoảng cách số và lan tỏa công nghệ đến toàn dân.</p><p>Theo Indochina Research, vẫn còn một bộ phận lớn người dân chưa được tiếp cận AI, do đó cần đẩy mạnh việc thử nghiệm, sử dụng và lan tỏa AI một cách rộng rãi hơn.</p><p>Việt Nam cũng cần đảm bảo rằng quá trình phát triển này sẽ mang tính toàn diện và bao trùm, nhằm duy trì lợi thế hiện tại và vươn xa hơn trong tương lai.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>OpenAI công bố thành tích "vô tiền khoáng hậu" với mô hình AI mớiTheo OpenAI, mô hình AI mới của hãng đạt thành tích tương đương huy chương vàng tại kỳ thi Toán học Quốc tế IMO, giải đúng 5 trong 6 bài toán dưới điều kiện thi chuẩn.</p> Việt Nam vượt nhiều cường quốc trên Bảng Chỉ số AI thế giới	查看 4027	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word
3213304	有图 <p>Khi người xung quanh phát hiện, diễn viên Sử Hoàng Sơn đã qua đời tại nhà trọ ở TPHCM. Tang lễ diễn ra tại Chùa Xá Lợi, Quận 3.</p><p>Sử Hoàng Sơn sinh năm 1992, sống và làm việc tại TPHCM, còn được biết với nghệ danh Hoàng Thiên Huy.</p><p>Anh từng theo học 1 học kỳ khóa 15 tại Sân khấu nghệ thuật Trương Hùng Minh, Quận 10. Các lớp học do các thầy là nghệ sĩ Minh Nhí, Lê Quốc Nam và Quốc Thảo phụ trách giảng dạy.</p><p><source data-srcset="https://static-images.vnncdn.net/vps_images_publish/000001/000003/2025/7/21/503266879-24000975362840084-8547947381419492812-n-1810.jpg?width=0&s=8to5vUzaQf-CdjnrXDBhOg"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p>Sử Hoàng Sơn (đang ngồi) trong một vở diễn. Ảnh: FBNV<p>Trong Đêm thi Độc thoại, Sử Hoàng Sơn vào vai Trùm Sò, được nghệ sĩ Minh Nhí đánh giá là "duyên dáng và đầy triển vọng".</p><p>Trong thời gian học tại sân khấu, 9X từng tham gia một số vở diễn với vai quần chúng. Anh cũng từng góp mặt trong chương trình Mùa hiếu đạo 2024 tại Bến Cát, Bình Dương do thầy - đạo diễn Lê Quốc Nam thực hiện.</p><p>Ngoài ra, Sử Hoàng Sơn cũng góp mặt trong một sốphim ngắn trên nền tảng TikTok, web drama và đóng MV.</p><p>Sau học kỳ này, anh không học tiếp tại Sân khấu nghệ thuật Trương Hùng Minh nên các thầy mất liên lạc. Sau khi nghe tin dữ hôm 20/7, đại diện sân khấu gửi lẵng hoa và chia buồn với gia đình.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p><p>Họa sĩ Lê Thiết Cương qua đời vì bạo bệnhHọa sĩ Lê Thiết Cương vừa qua đời 18h55 tối nay 17/7 sau một thời gian chống chọi với ung thư, hưởng thọ 64 tuổi.</p> Diễn viên Sử Hoàng Sơn qua đời ở tuổi 33	查看 1719	越南网	2025-07-21 08:00:00 2025-07-21 18:27:54	word

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