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PA lawmaker prepares resolution to rename Lake Erie to Lake Pennsylvania
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (139+ words) HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) — Pennsylvania State Representative David Maloney is preparing a resolution to rename Lake Erie to Lake Pennsylvania. The resolution would urge the United States Congress and the United States Secretary of the Interior to take the steps necessary…...
A WMU professor who wrote a book on Lake Ontario is getting lots of calls from the media
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (393+ words) Daniel Macfarlane is a professor in the School of Environment, Geography and Sustainability at WMU. His book “The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History” was published in 2024, but Macfarlane’s media whirlwind didn’t start until President Donald Trump released an…...
Republican mayor rejects Trump's Lake Ontario name change
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (183+ words) Robert Corradino is the Republican mayor of Oswego, N.Y., a city on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario. He says the body of water is central to his community's identity and the city's decision not to follow U.S. President Donald Trump's directive…...
Big Blue to exit, lake left | CBC News
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (621+ words) Houseboats are an iconic part of the Yellowknife landscape. But for the last few years, one has been slowly slipping under the surface of Great Slave Lake. Big Blue, as it’s known, has recently been flashing its undercarriage like a…...
Letter: Great Lakes memory aid is fittingly shameful
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (239+ words) I recall as a kid we used to use the mnemonic “HOMES” to remember the names of the Great Lakes. Unfortunately with Donald Trump’s executive order changing Lake Ontario’s name to Lake of America, that memory tool no longer works....
‘Peace does not mean silence’; Peace by Chocolate bar protests Lake Ontario name change
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (797+ words) Antigonish-based Peace by Chocolate has a new bar. The term “unusual times” seems to be a recurring one. As Canada/USA relations seem to worsen every day, many people are fighting back in whatever way they can. Whether that be…...
Make Ontario Lake Again: Mapmakers should draw lines not toe them
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (246+ words) Whether viewed in months or millennia, the politics of place naming is always in the zeitgeist. Now, Trump’s toponymy is failing to put America on the map. Last week, the age-old wheeze of saying something is what it manifestly is…...
Trump Voters Say It’s Lake Ontario
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (204+ words) It seems to be a day for random thoughts to take over and sidetrack our conversation regarding the pissed-off voters. CNN had a section where they talked to some people about the renaming of Lake Ontario, and they didn’t hold…...
Letter to the Editor: Seeking a new word to remember the Great Lakes
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (595+ words) For decades schoolchildren have used the word HOMES to remember the names of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.) But with the recent renaming of Ontario to America … Read moreLetter to the Editor: Seeking a new word…...
GUEST APPEARANCE: Lake Ontario: Then, now, and forever
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (280+ words) President Trump’s unilateral decision to direct U.S. federal agencies to refer to Lake Ontario as “Lake America” is an affront to the Indigenous peoples of the region, specifically the Haudenosaunee, of which the Cayuga are a part of along with…...