Canada has rejected the new name of the lake, which straddles both countries, as their row deepens.
Trump floats renaming Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ as feud with Canada escalates | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Tuesday escalated his feud with Canadian leaders, suggesting the United States is considering renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America” as tensions between the two countries rise amid an ongoing trade war.
Google Maps renames Lake Ontario after Trump’s decree on ‘Lake America’
Tech giant says name to remain Lake Ontario for Canadian users, change reflects decision by US government agency.
Armies Seize Territory. Empires Seize Language. | Jason G. Butterfield | Offprint
What renaming a lake tells us about sovereignty, and the normalization of ownership
America Doesn’t Need to Invade Canada. It Has Our Data | The Walrus
From cloud servers to AI patents, digital dependence is becoming a new form of power
The Case for Filling in Lake Merritt
After a century of short-sighted city-building, is this our best bet?
On whose land?
I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of on whose land will these be built? How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like meh.
U.S. and Canada fall deeper into a trade war with new tariffs as talks collapse and blame is spread
President Donald Trump’s import taxes will hit about 5% of what Canada ships to the United States every year, including products ranging from hockey sticks to tongue depressors.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls new U.S. tariffs ‘a miscalculation’ after trade talks collapse
The U.S. import taxes will apply to hockey sticks, building materials, liquors and certain kinds of clothing. Carney said “Canada will match those tariffs dollar for dollar.”
DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts
Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the man—who hasn’t entered the US in more than a decade—following posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
‘A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks
Critics say the Trump administration is trying to rewrite and whitewash history by removing and altering scores of signs on public lands
Transcontinental Arch
The Transcontinental Arch refers to the islands of North America which extended from New Mexico to Minnesota and the Great Lakes region.[1][2] These islands were present during the Sauk sequence, the earliest cratonic sequence. As a result of the Sauk sequence, epeiric seas covered most of North America, leaving only the craton of the Canadian Shield and the Transcontinental Arch islands exposed.
I’m Calling It. Time for a New NATO | The Tyee
The ‘New Alliance Treaty Organization’ could offer real protection from what’s brewing in the US.
Ambitious Canada Part 8: Mega Projects
Do you believe that Canada is facing an existential crisis? The answer to this question determines the kind of actions we, as a nation, take going forward. History has examples of nations that faced existential threats and responded by aligning their government and private sectors to achieve the imp
Ok with the help of Claude and the @leaflet.pub team (thanks!) I created a small script that renames leaflet pubs (I used it successfully for my blog but it is Claude-coded so use at your own risk 😇) >
GitHub - ronentk/rename-leaflets: Set a human-readable slug on a Leaflet (leaflet.pub) post using the AT Protocol API
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Ronen Tamari
Sorry if this is a noob question but is it possible to change the slug on a @leaflet.pub post to have a meaningful name? eg in blog.cosmik.network/3mndi5x3aw22b "3mndi5x3aw22b" -> "may-2026" Thanks!