Source Feed: CBC News - Ottawa
Author: Inayat Singh
Publication Date: August 28, 2026 - 04:00
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Despite Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario, Great Lakes endure as symbol of U.S.-Canada collaboration
August 28, 2026
It's unclear whether Trump can unilaterally rename the lake, whose name predates European colonization of the Americas and has been widely recognized internationally for centuries. But the renaming belies a concerted push by the Trump administration to hold back important U.S.-Canada collaboration on scientific research and restoration work in the Great Lakes.
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Landowners are going to court over what they allege is the Alberta Energy Regulator's failure to fund the cleanup of oil and gas sites with no company responsible for them.
September 8, 2026 - 14:00 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America” will come at a cost to federal agencies in the U.S. that are responsible for updating maps and databases, and a previous report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) offers insight into how expensive this could be. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the lake on Aug. 27, which directed the Department of the Interior to update maps and databases to reflect the new name. It’s not the first time Trump has sought to rename a major body of water. In January 2025, he signed an executive order changing the name...
September 8, 2026 - 13:35 | Ellie Hutchings | National Post
OTTAWA — Canada says it intends to ban all trade with goods tied to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, joining several European countries in a joint statement promising harsher measures against Israelis the governments say are undermining a two-state solution. In the statement, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and her counterparts in the U.K., France, and nine other countries called on Israel’s government to crack down on settler violence in the West Bank. The 12 foreign ministers also specifically criticized an apartment development, called E1, they said would essentially cut...
September 8, 2026 - 13:23 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
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