{"id":891544,"date":"2026-09-11T08:43:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891544\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:43:31","slug":"lake-ontario-mapquest-posts-billboard-in-response-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891544\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Ontario: MapQuest posts billboard in response to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"c-overline b-overline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/world\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0September 10, 2026 at 4:59p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0September 10, 2026 at 4:44p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CHICAGO \u2014 MapQuest is doubling down on its decision to continue to keep Lake Ontario on its map with a six-foot billboard in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The billboard is located at State and Hubbard Street and features directions on how to get from there to Lake Ontario, with the campaign line: \u201cIt\u2019s still Lake Ontario. And we\u2019re still here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is in response to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s signing of an executive order to rename Lake Ontario \u201cLake America\u201d last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prime Minister Mark Carney said Lake Ontario is much older than the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and \u201cnaming reality means calling it Lake Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MapQuest says it\u2019s seen a resurgence in popularity after refusing to change Lake Ontario\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matt Cramer, CNN<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Updated:\u00a0September 10, 2026 at 4:59p.m. EDT Published:\u00a0September 10, 2026 at 4:44p.m. EDT CHICAGO \u2014 MapQuest is doubling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-891544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891544","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=891544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}