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TRUMP RENAMES LAKE ONTARIO ‘LAKE AMERICA’

TRUMP RENAMES LAKE ONTARIO ‘LAKE AMERICA’

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US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order seeking to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” escalating tensions with Canada amid a deepening trade dispute. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected the move, declaring that the shared Great Lake is called “Lake Ontario, today and forever.”