POLITICS● LOWAug 28 · Aug 28, 2026, 12:16 PM
US-CANADA: Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’
France 24 [en] · north america
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
GlobeAlert aggregates and classifies open sources; the story above belongs to its publisher. Summaries are machine-generated from the source text.
More in Politics
POLITICSnowMorocco: Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, power her wayJeune AfriquePOLITICS10m ago'Absolutely no legal basis' for chaotic scenes in Poland's top court, says Polish secretary of stateEuroNews [en]POLITICS11m agoLP chieftain Arabambi sues CCB over Obi’s asset declarationVanguard NigeriaPOLITICS11m agoIn Senegal, why the 'confiscation' of the Socialist Party by Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye is being challenged in courtJeune Afrique