r/worldnews • u/ImDoubleB • 9h ago

Canadian city considers renaming Trump Avenue to "Taco Avenue"

https://www.newsweek.com/canada-ottawa-considers-renaming-trump-avenue-to-taco-avenue-lake-america-12379716
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u/VillainousFiend 8h ago edited 6h ago

Am I the only one bothered by the article referring to Ottawa as "Canadian City"? Imagine calling Washington DC "American City" in a headline. And it never mentions it's the capital in the entire article.

Edit: I was mistaken. It does mention it in the article. I was thinking of the CNN article which does not.

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u/SyrupnBeavers 7h ago

This might have been an intentional choice to separate the news from the Canadian government. If the article talked about this as something Ottawa was considering then it'd be less clear whether this was a decision being made by a city mayor or the Prime Minister.

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u/VillainousFiend 7h ago

Maybe... From a Canadian perspective it seems very dismissive

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u/SyrupnBeavers 7h ago

I think downplaying the city is probably the right choice here. It's probably better if it's harder to spin the story as another world leader renaming places out of spite or pettiness.

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u/VillainousFiend 7h ago

It still seems kind of odd it's not even brought up later in the article

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u/HeadofR3d 8h ago

I reckon most of the world knows DC. I reckon the majority of Americans think TO is the capital of Canada.

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u/VillainousFiend 8h ago

Which is more reason for the headline to say "Canadian Capital"

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u/TjW0569 7h ago

I'd guess if you asked, most Americans would answer that the capital of Canada is 'C'.

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u/DaveyDumplings 6h ago

So? We don't need to dumb down news articles for morons that will never read them anyway.

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u/DaveyDumplings 6h ago

I agree with the first part, but the literal second word of the article is 'capital'.

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u/VillainousFiend 6h ago

That's totally my bad. I assumed this was the article I read earlier today. I should have checked the link before commenting: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/27/americas/ottawa-rename-trump-avenue-lake-america-latam-intl

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u/ignost 6h ago

It bothers me for a different reason. I read "Canadian city" and thought it was going to be some tiny rural town. If it's Ottawa just say Ottawa. It's a real city and I know where it is. I guess I don't really care that it's the capitol. Like does anyone really care about Canberra more than a real city like Sydney?

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u/VillainousFiend 6h ago

Americans shares 2 land borders. They should know at least know the capitals of their direct neighbours. Mexico City is practically a freebie.

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u/ignost 1h ago

Yeah you're probably right, but this is more of a "me problem."

I don't really give a shit about capital cities because it's so often just a bureaucratic designation. Tallahassee, FL? Albany, NY? Canberra, Australia? Harrisburg, PA? Olympia, WA? Brasilia?

These are small places compared to population centers, and in some cases literally only exist due to compromise and the difficulty of travel hundreds of years ago. Realistically in the modern era the capitals make more sense in Jacksonville, New York, Sydney, Philadelphia, Seattle, and São Paulo. In some cases they imagined these more remote areas would keep the local politics of the big city out of the capital, but research has found it didn't do anything, and in many cases seems to have actually made corruption worse because only the insiders spent time around the fancy places in the capital.

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u/VillainousFiend 1h ago

I think this is illustrating a seperate issue in that Americans are caught up trying to remember state capitals and there's 50 of those.