Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a new Lake Ontario sign Saturday afternoon, just days after Donald Trump renamed the Great Lake as “Lake America.”

Ford’s appearance in Winona, Ont., came as Canada-U.S. trade tensions continue to escalate, with the premier using the name change to reinforce his message that Ontario will “never back down” and always defend its interests.

“President Trump can call it whatever, but I can tell you the rest of the world will always call it Lake Ontario,” Ford said.

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[–] 56 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

We gotchu, border friends

Proud of my city for this. Hope others follow suit. Formal rejections en masse will speak volumes.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    FUCK WEBSITES THAT AUTOPLAY VIDEOS

    ... WITH AN UNLUBED CACTUS, IF THERE IS SOUND

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to even be possible on websites. At least the audio bit, iirc you have to interact first. Wonder how they do it. Granted, I'm not a proper web dev, just played around with a few things.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You do have to give Trump credit for one thing: He's made it so easy for a number of politicians all around to score easy wins. Making tough decisions? Eh, much easier to point out that Trump is an idiot and score political points.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    As a person from Ontario, this is dumb. Like, not as dumb as renaming it, obviously, but just ignore the turd. I don't need a sign affirming the name of the lake. I hope it wasn't expensive, but knowing Ford I'm sure it was made by one of his buddy's companies at 10x the price, charged to the taxpayer.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago*

    Fighting crazy with zany. If I was Canada I would dare Trump to come out into the middle of the lake and plant an America flag in the middle of it. He might fall for it.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Add 1 year to how long provincial liquor control boards won't buy US products every time the US makes a dick move.

    Tariffs "because of fentanyl": that's a year.
    Saying "51st state": another year.
    Calling the prime minister "governor": and another year. Keep it up, jackasses!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    It's not Lake America. It's Lake Ontario. It's not Donald Trump. It's Donvict Trumpepstein.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Isn't that the crack head? He's still in politics?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Is doug ford right wing himself? I thought he was kind of a piece of shit from previous readings. I don't care about him smoking crack, that's not my concern at all.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Oh yea, he's right wing, especially financially. And a corrupt piece of shit, but the sound bites play well with the media. He may have some Canadian pride that's genuine, but he'd sell out the province to make a buck for himself or his friends.

    He's/was more a dealer than a user. His brother Rob became well known for smoking crack, among consuming other things, while mayor of Toronto.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The late Rob Ford was the one that was on tape smoking crack and was the mayor of Toronto. Doug is his brother.
    They were very much a proto-trump, "anti-establishment".

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The white Merian Berry (sp) of canada.

    Marian Berry or however you spell his name, was mayor of DC, black. He leaned into it, wore dashikis (traditional african robes,) to events.

    Anyway he got caught smoking crack with hookers in a motel room, then got re-elected. This was a while back, in the 90s I think.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Can these two fight to the death and the winner gets to go to prison? Please!?

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