In the long and tangled story of borders and belonging, names have always carried the weight of sovereignty. President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America — dutifully reflected by Google Maps for American users — extends a pattern of symbolic assertion over a body of water that has been shared, and named, long before either nation existed in its current form. The move carries no legal reach into Canadian territory, yet it has sharpened an already strained relationship between two neighbours navigating a bruising trade war, reminding the world that cartography, like ta