US-CANADA: Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’

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US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 27 to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America', a change he said would take effect immediately.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took to X, writing the Great Lake's name will remain 'now and always'.

The order comes after US-Canada trade talks collapsed last week, prompting the two longtime allies to announce tit-for-tat tariffs

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