Ottawa couple's 'Lake Ontario' hats selling like hotcakes after Trump's executive order
Before the ink had even dried on U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order to rename Lake Ontario, a Canadian company was already selling hats with the Great Lake's true name emblazoned on it.
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Coverage at a glance
- First observed by CurrentWire: CBS News · Aug 28, 2026 at 9:36 AM ET
- Coverage span: 8h 34m
- Coverage: 2 reports from 2 independent publications
- Coverage growth: 1 → 2 publications in 12h 29m
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CBC NewsTier A
Ottawa couple's 'Lake Ontario' hats selling like hotcakes after Trump's executive order(opens original report in a new tab)CBS NewsTier B
Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America"(opens original report in a new tab)The executive order directs the Interior Department to update the Geographic Names Information System, changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. — CBS News
How coverage developed
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Story updateCoverage went from 1 to 2 sources
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Signal breakdown
CurrentWire ranked this story 58.3 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.
- Freshness
- 9.8 of 35
- Source authority
- 20 of 20
- Coverage breadth
- 8.5 of 20
- Geographic relevance
- 10 of 10
- Story prominence
- 10 of 10
- Velocity
- 0 of 5
Strongest signal: source authority, 20 of 20. How each signal is calculated.
Filed under Politics · US & Canada · News. Topics extracted from this report, with other live CurrentWire stories mentioning each: Ontario (13), Lake Ontario Lake America (none), Ottawa (3), United States (71).
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