Users in the United States will see the new label, following President Trump’s executive order last week.

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The Canadian province's premier, Doug Ford, installed a billboard-sized sign on the lake's shoreline after the US president signed an executive order on Thursday directing US federal agencies to change the lake's name on US maps, documents and databases to 'Lake America'. Ford told reporters that the lake's name, which is more than 400 years old, would remain unchanged. Trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed last week, with each side ‌blaming the ⁠other for derailing three days of intensive negotiations

• Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

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Le président américain a signé un décret visant à le rebaptiser « le lac Amérique ».

Le président américain a signé un décret visant à le rebaptiser « le lac Amérique ».

Les juges et le personnel judiciaire doivent travailler le soir, la fin de semaine et pendant leurs vacances.

Les juges et le personnel judiciaire doivent travailler le soir, la fin de semaine et pendant leurs vacances.

There’s little optimism about treasury secretary’s ability to handle Trump’s tariffs, Iran sanctions and colossal US debt

History remembers Gen Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the allied forces in Europe during the second world war, for his role in the D-day invasion of Normandy. Whether Scott Bessent will achieve similar posterity as the face of the “economic D-day” in Iran remains to be seen.

The US treasury secretary, already trying to manage a $40tn national debt pile, this week took charge of Donald Trump’s effort to reverse-engineer his war of choice. Whereas the US would typically take on an adversary with diplomacy, sanctions and military force, in that order, the US president started with a six-month bombing campaign and now hopes that economic isolation can finish the job.

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Ignore Iran, the Epstein files, and your wallet – not to mention Trump’s plummeting approval ratings

Don’t mention the war! Or the economy, for that matter. Or the Epstein files. Or Natalie Harp. Or “affordability”, which, as Donald Trump recently said at a rally, is a word that was “never used” by the media before he took office. Best not to talk about anything that affects ordinary people or embarrasses the president, really. Instead, let’s all rejoice in Trump’s latest triumph: renaming Lake Ontario, which is shared by Canada and the US, as Lake America.

On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to America-fy the lake’s name on US maps and documents, which is an excellent use of time and resources. I suppose we can at least be thankful that the president, who is trying to slap his own name on everything from airports to the Kennedy Center, didn’t decree that the body of water be called Lake Trump.

Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist

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Avoiding US goods and services – from tech to whisky to air travel – has forced many to find a new way of living

For William McDonald, 38, a diesel mechanic from Thunder Bay, Ontario, “Canadian is always the first choice,” even if it means his weekly bills are higher.

“As soon as Trump started putting those tariffs on in February [last year], I started boycotting US goods,” he said. “Avoiding American products has driven my costs up, and I’m still happy to do it.

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After trade talks collapsed, Mark Carney rallied the nation, Canadian businesses stood defiant, and President Trump moved to rename Lake Ontario.

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The U.S.-Canada trade war has galvanized Canadians behind their prime minister’s decision to walk away from negotiations. What happens when the time comes for talks to restart?

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Le nom de ce cours d’eau tire son origine de la langue huron-wendat.

Le nom de ce cours d’eau tire son origine de la langue huron-wendat.

L’Ontario et les provinces de l’Ouest sont divisés quant à la possible taxation de cette ressource minérale.

L’Ontario et les provinces de l’Ouest sont divisés quant à la possible taxation de cette ressource minérale.

Cette décision est purement «cosmétique», dénoncent la Dre Joanne Liu et plusieurs experts.

Cette décision est purement «cosmétique», dénoncent la Dre Joanne Liu et plusieurs experts.

41% des Québécois consultent le réseau de Meta chaque semaine pour s’informer de la politique.

41% des Québécois consultent le réseau de Meta chaque semaine pour s’informer de la politique.

Terrified of being seen as a loser, Donald Trump is nonsensically lashing out – even against our old friend Canada

I’m still grieving Dolly Parton. I never met her and always wanted to. She was almost exactly my age and my height and had values I deeply admired. Her death leaves a hole in the firmament.

Which brings me to the person whose values are as far from Dolly Parton’s as any human could possibly be and still claim to be human. I’m referring, of course, to the current occupant of the Oval Office.

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Unpopular new policy comes as midterms loom and control of Congress could be decided by several Michigan races

Every day $1bn worth of goods crosses the river dividing Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, two largely blue-collar US and Canadian cities that have come to act as one in the creation of North America’s auto industry.

News this week of Donald Trump’s escalating trade spat with Canada has everyone worried. Political and economic leaders and observers labeled the move an act of “hubris” , blamed Trump’s “ego”, and called the escalation “insanity”.

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There is a U.S.-led war in the Middle East and the midterm elections on the horizon, but President Trump’s latest priority seems to be “Making The Great Lakes Even Greater.”

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Les Américains «se fichent» de la question linguistique, assure le secrétaire américain au Commerce.

Les Américains «se fichent» de la question linguistique, assure le secrétaire américain au Commerce.

Two cars were destroyed at the Toronto home of Salma Zahid, a Liberal member of Parliament, in an overnight episode condemned by Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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The president also reiterated his criticism that Canada “treats us very badly.” Trade talks between the nations collapsed last week.

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A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

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The US president signed order on Thursday amid growing trade war with Canada after the US enacted tariffs against its northern neighbor

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Mark Carney rejects attempt to rename lake as did several US governors, with Tony Evers mocking the move

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Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario, making it Lake America, amid his escalating trade war with Canada.

The order directs federal agencies to adopt the name-change on US maps, documents and databases. But Trump has no authority to rename Canada’s portion of the lake, nor to compel Canada, international legal bodies, international mapmakers, or the rest of the world to adopt a new name.

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Canada’s minister in charge of trade with the U.S. was responding to comments by Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative. But that was before any mention of Lake Ontario.

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A year into a government review of the purchase of as many as 88 F-35s, one premier says buying American warplanes makes no sense in the face of President Trump’s latest tariffs.

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Russia is the largest destination for stolen Canadian cars. Smugglers are meeting the demand of a booming black market.

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Ottawa a lancé une série de nouveaux appels d’offres dans le cadre de l’initiative Minerva.

Il assure que le français n’a jamais été une «ligne rouge» pour les États-Unis.

Il assure que le français n’a jamais été une «ligne rouge» pour les États-Unis.

Ottawa a lancé une série de nouveaux appels d’offres dans le cadre de l’initiative Minerva.

The US president expected Ottawa to bow to tariff demands, but Canada is striking back – and it could cost Americans

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Earlier this year, a survey found that Canada, along with Switzerland, was the best-liked country in the world. We all know this kind of polling is about as scientific as a high school popularity contest, but at least anecdotally, Canadians have a reputation for being friendly and welcoming, respectful and polite. Many people would find it difficult to dislike Canadians.

But not Donald Trump, who in a “hold my beer” moment this week demonstrated that he, at least, finds it easy to resent Canadians. The US president called the country “difficult and unreasonable”, and in a particularly hysterical moment, threatened to rename a lake, after trade talks collapsed.

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Il assistera aussi au discours sur l’état de l’Union de la présidente de la Commission européenne, le 16 septembre.

Il assistera aussi au discours sur l’état de l’Union de la présidente de la Commission européenne, le 16 septembre.

The quiet-spoken Canadian prime minister has spoken unutterable truths

Is it perhaps a sign of the times that Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, has become a thrilling orator? A sober banker, he speaks calmly, without many vocal inflections. We expect Canadians to be somewhat flat; even a little boring, and yet Carney has already delivered two remarkable speeches in 2026, and the year is far from over.

The first, at Davos, described a “rupture in the world order”, and “the end of a pleasant fiction”. By that, he meant that the world could no longer depend on the United States to lead the Pax Americana that has largely kept the peace since the end of the second world war.

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Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated

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Using the bathroom or having a cry is about to become more expensive for North Americans as the US and Canada enter a full-fledged trade war that threatens to flush away decades of peaceful trading between the two nations.

After trade negotiations broke down between the two countries last weekend, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, vowed to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar” and unveiled a list of nearly 900 American goods that will face 25% to 50% tariffs starting on 8 September.

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Business owners are preparing for financial pain after the latest U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed. But many Canadians are embracing a show of resistance.

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Everyone can see that the Iran war has been a strategic disaster for the US, while a failing president pretends he is winning

Now is the twilight of Donald Trump’s supremacy. The US is still the richest and most heavily armed nation on Earth. That status is secure. The current president, contemptuous of law and indulged in lawlessness by a supine Congress, enjoys even greater power than the constitution allows.

With those advantages it takes a special talent for incompetence to look as thwarted and impotent as Trump does with more than two years of his second term still to run.

Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist

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Le premier ministre de la Colombie-Britannique estime que la réponse d’Ottawa passe à côté d’éléments clés.

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Le premier ministre de la Colombie-Britannique estime que la réponse d’Ottawa passe à côté d’éléments clés.