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.
Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.
Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.
Trump is deporting people with legal status and no criminal convictions to foreign hellhole’s without due process.
His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter.
He’s pushing us toward a recession.
He’s threatening to invade allies.
They’re grabbing students off the streets and deporting them for legally protected speech.
He’s attacking every part of our judicial system from judges to law firms.
He’s letting an unaccountable MAGA billionaire illegally dismantle the government.
That same MAGA billionaire is working to buy elections by literally handing out million dollar checks to people.
Republicans are helping him.
We’re losing the things that are great about America—free speech, due process, strong allies, a functional legal system—right in front of our eyes.
America better find its backbone, and soon.
I'm thinking about some great people I wish were still with us this holiday, and I'm sure many families are feeling the same. Please join Britainy and me as we pray for our neighbors who are missing a loved one this Thanksgiving so they know we care and they are not alone. ^AB
And while I'm generally not here to talk about the past, I can't at this moment resist pointing out that ALL OF THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF PEOPLE HAD VOTED FOR THE EMAIL LADY.
Can’t stop thinking about how Congress just had to prevent a fake and manufactured “debt ceiling crisis” by fast-tracking fossil fuel projects like the Mountain Valley Pipeline which will only make the very real climate crisis even worse. This is the price of corruption. Look up.
Imagine.
Imagine if we acted as swiftly to pass #GunSense laws as GOP acted to expel my Democratic colleagues.
Imagine if saving children’s lives was more important than partisan politics or NRA money.
Imagine if us lawmakers just did our damn job to protect kids.
Imagine.
Maybe cable news channels can take a tiny break from covering what Trump had for lunch to show the massive crowds of young people flooding into Nashville to demand Republicans pass gun reform. https://t.co/Mo9CwT3oAr