30 August 2026

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MANILA, Philippines—There’s still no stopping Australia in the 2027 Fiba World Cup Asian Qualifiers. The Boomers continued their dominance after burying Jordan, 126-93, to remain the only unblemished ...

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Meanwhile, Trump posts video of himself kicking over a Lake Ontario sign and replacing it with Lake America sign Donald Trump and Canada continued a verbal duel on Saturday over the US government’s administrative renaming of Lake Ontario, with the country erecting a giant sign saying “Lake Ontario. Now and Always” – and the American president posting a video of him tearing down an avatar of that sign, erecting a replacement saying Lake America, and dancing to YMCA. Rhetoric over the naming of Lake Ontario is the public face of an escalating trade dispute between the US and its northern neighbor involving a 50% US tariff on Canadian steel and retaliatory tariffs from Ottawa.

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Canada claps back at Trump's efforts to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'

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30 August 2026

Canada claps back at Trump's efforts to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario — Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U. S. users, as President Trump demanded. (Image credit: Keito Newman/The Canadian Press)

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