{"id":53951,"date":"2026-08-30T09:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=53951"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:17:11","slug":"canada-installs-large-lake-ontario-sign-in-latest-jab-at-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/canada-installs-large-lake-ontario-sign-in-latest-jab-at-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada installs large Lake Ontario sign in latest jab at US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC:<\/strong> Ontario Premier Doug Ford has hit back at Donald Trump by installing a large sign on Canada’s shoreline with the message: “Lake Ontario. Now and Always.”<\/p>\n

The US president signed an executive order on Thursday seeking to change its name to Lake America and has shared a series of AI-generated videos about the lake that straddles both countries.<\/p>\n

“Long before President Trump, this lake was called Lake Ontario. Long after President Trump is gone, it will still be called Lake Ontario,” Ford said.<\/p>\n

The war of words was triggered after trade talks collapsed, with the US imposing new 50% tariffs on $20bn (C$28bn) of Canadian goods. Canada will implement “dollar for dollar” counter-tariffs next month.<\/p>\n

Trump said the decree was effective immediately as he signed the order to rename it Lake America.<\/p>\n

While he has broad discretion over how the US recognises landmarks, other countries are not required to follow. Canadian officials have dismissed Trump’s move.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Trump also posted several AI-generated videos on social media, with one showing him kicking over a Lake Ontario sign and replacing it with one that says: “Welcome to Lake America.”
\nAnother video depicted a flock of Canada geese sporting the US president’s hair and holding rifles as they patrolled the shoreline of a newly named Lake America.<\/p>\n

Ford said Trump’s renaming of the lake was because he “didn’t like Ontario and Canada standing up for ourselves”.<\/p>\n

Standing in front of the newly unveiled Lake Ontario sign, Ford added: “Just in case President Trump or anyone else forgets, we’ve set up this sign to remind them, it’s Lake Ontario, now and forever.”<\/p>\n

It echoes Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s previous response to the row, insisting “things must be called by their name, and this lake is called Lake Ontario – today and forever”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC: Ontario Premier Doug Ford has hit back at Donald Trump by installing a large sign on Canada’s shoreline with the message: “Lake Ontario. Now and Always.” The US president signed an executive order on Thursday seeking to change its name to Lake America and has shared a series of AI-generated videos about the lake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53954,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53951\/revisions\/53954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}