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Users outside Canada and the U.S. will see both names, Google\u2019s post said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s official! LAKE AMERICA on Google Maps,\u201d White House communications director Steven Cheung posted on the social media website X on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Appearing on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d program on Sunday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the name change won\u2019t stick, despite Trump signing the executive order on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like something out of \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 when (Trump) signed a document saying change it to Lake America,\u201d Ford said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one\u2019s going to call it Lake of America. It\u2019s been Lake Ontario for hundreds of years. It\u2019s going to continue being Lake Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Ford unveiled a large sign in Winona, a small lakeside community part of Hamilton, Ont., which says, \u201cLake Ontario, now and always.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also on Saturday, Trump posted a video rendered by artificial intelligence where he replaces a Lake Ontario sign with another that reads \u201cWelcome to Lake America,\u201d then dances to the YCMA song by the Village People.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Mark Carney responded to Trump\u2019s bid to rename the lake in a social media post on Thursday. Carney said Canadians know Lake Ontario will always be known by its original name, \u201cthen, now and always.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes, is located between Ontario and New York. The Canadian province is named after the lake.<\/p>\n
New York Governor Kathy Hochul said after Trump signed his order that New York won\u2019t call it that.<\/p>\n
Tensions between the two countries have escalated since trade talks fell apart on Aug. 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both countries have accused each other of implementing last-minute changes to a proposed interim trade deal.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the federal government unveiled upwards of $27 billion in retaliatory measures, set to kick in on Sept. 8, responding to new U.S. tariffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump first threatened to rename the body of water during an escalating war of words with Ontario\u2019s premier.<\/p>\n
Ford had called the president a bully and a loser on Aug. 24, while Trump said the premier was a \u201cless charismatic\u201d and less intelligent version of his late brother Rob Ford.<\/p>\n
The premier said during his ABC appearance on Sunday that things \u201cgot heated\u201d between Trump and himself, but \u201cyou\u2019ve eventually got to stand up to someone who just continuously attacks our country and insults our country.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that he stoops down to that level and unfortunately I did that day,\u201d Ford said, adding he wants to see both sides return their focus to advancing a mutually beneficial free-trade deal.<\/p>\n
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Trump continued to take jabs at Canada on social media Sunday, urging Canadian companies doing business with the U.S. to cross the border. He also insisted he doesn\u2019t want Canadian cars, parts or \u201cCanadian anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump signed a similar executive order last year to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.<\/p>\n
The orders only apply to U.S. federal documents and geographic services, but some online map services and American news agencies have since called it the Gulf of America.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 30, 2026.<\/p>\n
\u2014 With files from Kelly Geraldine Malone in Washington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2013 Google Maps has updated to display \u201cLake America\u201d for users located in the United States, after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-877558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}