Ontario Premier Ford Defends Lake Ontario Name With Blue Billboard Amid Trump Feud
TL;DR
Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a baby-blue billboard near Hamilton reading “Lake Ontario” with the slogan “Now and Always” in English and French to push back against Donald Trump’s order renaming the lake as “Lake America,” arguing the lake’s name has always been Lake Ontario amid ongoing US-Canada trade tensions and political sparring.
- Ontario’s Doug Ford prods Trump with sign rejecting ‘Lake America’ name Al Jazeera
- Canada installs large Lake Ontario sign in latest jab at US BBC
- Seneca Nation requests reversal on ‘Lake America’ executive order The Hill
- The Trouble With Trump’s Attempt to Rename Lake Ontario Time Magazine
- What Lake Ontario’s sailors think of Trump’s name change to Lake America The Washington Post
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