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Colby Cosh: Will Ottawa rename Trump Avenue as revenge for 'Lake America'?

The president's crazed defacement of Lake Ontario shows that he might, in turn, be deeply offended if we erase his name from our maps

I couldn’t help ruminating on yesterday’s news of a renewed push to find a more suitable name for Trump Avenue in Ottawa’s Central Park neighbourhood. We live in an era of woke iconoclasm — some would say in the dying days of one — but this is obviously a different sort of matter. Trump Avenue started making national headlines in 2021, when city council polled residents about the offending nomenclature but failed to secure a majority in favour of a change that would involve some inconvenience and expense. Trump had just been ejected from the White House, a process accompanied by a smattering of violent resistance; perhaps the good people of Trump Avenue hoped he would retreat safely into the crumbling pages of history and spare them the trouble of revision. Didn’t we all.

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