Trump Announces Renaming of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' Amid Escalating Trade War with
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President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he escalates his trade war with Canada.
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Washington Times BusinessPresident Trump on Thursday ordered the Department of the Interior to update maps and databases to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, following through on his threat during a trade spat with Canada.
Financial TimesTrump orders Lake Ontario to be renamed ‘Lake America’ in new slight to Canada Body of water straddles border between the two countries
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Canada on Tuesday unveiled a package of “dollar for dollar” retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products after Mr. Trump imposed 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion in Canadian goods over the weekend.
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New York Post BusinessCanada has announced retaliatory tariffs of 25% to 50% on US goods including toilet and facial tissue stock beginning Sept. 8, as the trade fight between the two countries intensifies.
FortuneCanada responded to Trump’s import taxes this week by imposing retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of American goods, including steel, dairy products, appliances and farm equipment.
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Trump, who signed the order as he was sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, had a large sign behind him propped on a stand with a map of the Great Lakes. Over Lake Ontario, in big red letters, the map read “Lake America.”
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Washington Times BusinessMr. Trump made the change by signing an executive order in the Oval Office next to a giant poster that said, “Making the Great Lakes even greater.”
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“We’ve notified all the various people that you need to notify,” Mr. Trump said. “This is official, effective immediately.”
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FortuneTrump said as he was signing the order that he’d “notified all of the various people that we have to notify. So, we’ve done everything that you have to do.”
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday he’s willing to cut off electricity exports to the U.S. if the trade war between Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Trump escalates.
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FortuneOntario Premier Doug Ford, who has traded insults with Trump, said on X: “It’s Lake Ontario to Canadians and the rest of the world. Now and forever.”
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He also suggested his push to rename bodies of water may not be finished. “So, if you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean,” Trump said. “So maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them.”
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Washington Times Business“We have a gulf, and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean,” Mr. Trump said. “So maybe we’ll have to change the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both.”
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Tariffs Could Bring Canada Auto "To Its Knees" President Trump vowed this week to hike tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks, automotive parts, and steel to 50% at the start of next year as part of an ongoing trade war threat with the country. Linda Hasenfratz, Executive Chair of Linamar, says that after decades of free trade in automotives between he US and Canada, the implementation of such high tariffs would "cripple the industry." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Washington Times BusinessTrump said Monday that his administration would impose 50% tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks and auto parts starting Jan. 1, 2027 - after the November midterm elections.
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Mr. Trump said the tariffs are a necessary response to trade treatment he considers discriminatory.
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The contradiction underscores how deeply the two economies remain intertwined - and how much could be at stake if Trump’s trade war reaches more of the energy, materials and supply chains that the U.S. still relies on Canada to provide.
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New York Post BusinessThe potential squeeze comes as Trump’s escalating trade war with Canada has swept up paper products alongside autos, dairy, liquor and other goods.
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The president said Canada taps into the rich American market without buying many American products in return, resulting in a trade deficit that can reach $60 billion.
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01 Fortune In firing up a trade war with Canada, President Donald Trump turned to a 96-year-old statute so obscure that many trade lawyers didn’t even know it was still on the books.
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02 Jacobin Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to withdraw his trade negotiating team from Washington last Friday was surprising and refreshing. Surprising because Carney clearly wanted a deal and has a record of conceding to Donald Trump again and again, to no effect, in hopes of securing one. Refreshing because the deal on offer would have been terrible for Canadian workers.
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03 Financial Times US manufacturing is booming — but it’s no thanks to Trump’s tariffs This is not the nostalgic, protectionism-fuelled return that the president promised
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04 BBC Business Episode details Available for over a year There have been a lot of sanctions programmes against Iran. But this week US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Operation Economic Outcast, which promises to go further than ever before. It will punish not just Iran but any country helping Iran - including China. It is the Trump administration’s latest attempt to end the war. Will it work? We speak to Vali Nasr, professor of international affairs and Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University, and ask whether in trying to end one war, President Trump risks starting a global trade conflict. (Photo: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during a press conference to outline further sanctions against Iran, at the Treasury Department in Washington, DC, 24 August, 2026.
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05 NPR Economy Audio will be available later today. The trade war escalated between the U.S. and Canada, and the Trump administration tried to cut off Iran economically. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Wendy Cutler of the Asia Society Policy Institute.
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06 Washington Times Business Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes, is located between the state of New York and the Canadian province from which it takes its name. Cities such as Toronto and Rochester sit on the large body of water.
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07 New York Post Business When nature calls, cleaning up is poised to get more expensive due to President Trump’s new 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods.
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