2026-08-28 · CBC | World News
🔮 Despite Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario, Great Lakes endure as symbol of U.S.-Canada collaboration
Renaming Lake Ontario may sound like a joke, but environmental threats to the Great Lakes are very real
The Great Lakes, one of the largest stores of freshwater and a source of water for some 40 million people, have long symbolized how closely intertwined Canada and the U.S. are.
U.S. President Donald Trump took a public sledgehammer to that relationship Thursday as part of his trade war with Canada, signing an executive order directing that Lake Ontario be renamed Lake America. assertive