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The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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In response to popular demand, a thread on why Zelensky's statement rejecting Kosovo's independence is so problematic — and why getting the facts right here matters, from someone who's covered both countries as a journalist 🧵:
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🇨🇦🇨🇦Canada🇨🇦🇨🇦 you need to plant weed in all the forests near the border. So next time the smoke drifts into America they will chill the fuck out.
