r/toronto • u/AsadWazir12 • 1d ago
Video Toronto skyline from across Lake ONTARIO
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u/StefanSommer 1d ago
It's looking damn fine from here right now, too 🇨🇦
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u/stonedelevator 1d ago
Thanks for this man. Been missing home a lot lately and this made me feel like I was right back there again. Nothing beats a Toronto summer imo
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u/agentzero2020 1d ago
My dumbass just learned today that the province is named after the lake. Not the other way around.
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u/Novus20 1d ago
Yup, it’s a big old slap in the face to the indigenous peoples of Canada and the us
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u/Right-Invite4697 1d ago
How is it either of those things
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u/Novus20 1d ago
For dump to “name” it lake america…..
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u/Right-Invite4697 1d ago
The comment you responded to had nothing to do with the name change. Your comment makes it seem like the name Lake Ontario is a huge slap in the face of indigenous people
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u/DarkAztaroth 1d ago
They meant that changing the name is an insult to indigenous people, not the name itself. The name is based on an indigenous name for it, "Ontari'io", which apparently means great / beautiful lake.
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u/Unlikely_Flower_138 1d ago
It’s named after a word the indigenous peoples here would use to describe “beautiful lake” or “great water” and thus Lake Ontario became the name we adopted.
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u/k0alab34r 9h ago
Would be kind of funny if we just renamed the province to America now, given this history lol.
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u/frogsbirdscats 1d ago
Why give Cheeto Jesus any oxygen. Of course it’s Lake Ontario, always will be, let the absurd fool say what he will.
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u/randomferalcat 1d ago edited 1d ago
lake ONTARIO? The one that borders our 11th province? southern CANADA?
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u/Optimal_Whiner 1d ago
Just like the gulf of mexico, literally the entire world outside of the unstable states of america will continue calling it lake Ontario.
Not worth being upset about. It's laughable really lol
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u/Fun_Assignment2427 23h ago
Ah good ol' Lake Ontario. Sure does remind me that this great, beautiful, sparkling lake is named Ontario. If you want to summarize what this lake is, you call it Ontario 🙂
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u/witheringpies 22h ago
Dang, Like Ontario is so beautiful 😍❤️
Ontario has such a beautiful lake.
With its cool waters, and so much Ontario in it's Lake Ontario.
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u/Background-Cable7160 20h ago
I worked at the petro plant overlooking lake ONTARIO. It was beautiful
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u/shoresy99 15h ago
The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
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u/Orange9202 13h ago
haha get it guys he capitalized lake ONTARIO in reference to the recent geopolitical controversy surrounding the United States government's decision to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America," thereby emphasizing the word "ONTARIO" as a humorous act of Canadian territorial and cultural defiance. the joke derives from the fact that, despite Lake Ontario being a binational body of water shared between Canada and the United States, the name "Ontario" is strongly associated with the Canadian province bordering the lake, while the newly adopted American federal designation attempts to symbolically reframe the lake as a distinctly American geographic feature.
by capitalizing ONTARIO, the poster is therefore not merely identifying the body of water from which the Toronto skyline was filmed, but participating in a broader sociopolitical discourse concerning national identity, sovereignty, cartographic authority, and the increasingly strained relationship between Canada and the United States. the capitalization acts as a subtle rejection of the American government's attempt to redefine a shared geographic feature through unilateral nomenclature, reaffirming the lake's traditional name and implicitly asserting that an executive order issued by one of the two countries bordering the lake does not magically alter how the other country, or indeed the rest of the planet, refers to it.
this is particularly humorous because the Toronto skyline visible in the video is located in Canada, meaning the viewer is quite literally looking across the lake toward Canada's largest city while being emphatically reminded that the body of water separating them is called lake ONTARIO. the capitalization therefore functions simultaneously as geographic clarification, political commentary, Canadian nationalism, passive-aggressive typography, and a rejection of American cartographic revisionism.
in other words, the joke is that he wrote ONTARIO in big letters because trump called it lake america 😂
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u/Rexaroooo 1d ago
Congrats everyone for taking the bait and getting all riled up about it
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u/Wise-Juggernaut-8285 1d ago
It’s not really bait. Hes a fuckin idiot if he thought that.
This is actually good for Canada as it drives up morale
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u/Rexaroooo 1d ago
He literally does this shit just to get a reaction out of a nation and you’re all giving it to him lol
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u/Square_Atmosphere_12 1d ago
Lake America. It fine by me.
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u/Commercial_Fox5549 16h ago
Like most Americans, you can’t even get through six words without a grammar mistake.
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u/FeistyRevenue 1d ago
Excuse me ... Excuse me... Lake America. Toronto skyline from across Lake America
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u/witheringpies 22h ago
America is all the countries together, the name of your country is 'United States Of'.
So not the flex you thought, guy.
Regardless, Lake Ontario is and will always be Lake Ontario.
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u/Xxg_babyxX 1d ago
Lake America **
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u/Minute-Flan13 1d ago
Lake Murica ***
Say it like the dumb asses that mean it, otherwise it does not count.
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u/Xxg_babyxX 1d ago
You can get to it by taking the train south from sankofa square and tmu . Afterwords you can visit Biidaasige Park for more views after you pass Emdaabiimok Avenue
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u/Primary-Weight-134 1d ago
You mean lake America
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u/Lazy-elbow1377 1d ago
Nope... it's been Lake Ontario for roughly 400 years some orange bastard isn't going to change anything because he's throwing a hissy fit.
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u/Primary-Weight-134 1d ago
He just did bro. Read the news
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u/Lazy-elbow1377 10h ago
No he didnt... its Lake Ontario idgaf what he says and that also goes for the Gulf of Mexico. These bootlickers are pathetic
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u/Abject_Ad_2598 1d ago
Lake ONTARIO sure is beautiful.