Carney says Lake Ontario will keep its name ‘now and always’ after Trump order

Trump orders new name for Lake Ontario in provocative trade war twist

Donald Trump renames a lake on the US-Canada border as the neighbouring North American nations continue exchanging blows in their damaging trade war.

Aug 27, 2026

Vermont’s GOP governor: Trump’s Lake Ontario order ‘petty and disappointing’

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) on Thursday took issue with President Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” as his trade war with Canada intensifies. “This is petty and disappointing. We should be at the negotiating table, finding a path forward that strengthens both the U.S. and Canadian economies,” Scott, who has hammered Trump…

Aug 27, 2026

Trump signs order changing Lake Ontario’s name ‘effective immediately’

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday formally changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America amid the U.S. trade war with Canada. “We’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario effective immediately to Lake America,” Trump told reporters before he signed an executive order renaming the body of water. Beside…

Aug 27, 2026

Carney says Lake Ontario will keep its name ‘now and always’ after Trump order

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney fired back at President Donald Trump‘s move to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” during the countries’ trade war, pointing to the centuries-old, Indigenous root of the lake’s original name. “The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake is […]

Aug 27, 2026