Column "Inside America": My "Toronto" sweater is suddenly highly political
Trump rechristens a lake - and that turns an old sweatshirt from my closet into a confession. A trip through the USA, Canada and Brussels suddenly becomes an adventure.
A woman's grey sweatshirt with "Toronto, Lake Ontario" printed on it became outdated during a recent flight to New York. She had worn it for many years and was called "Toronto" by friends because of it. Before going through immigration at JFK, she took it off after learning that Donald Trump had renamed Lake Ontario "Lake America" in a fit of anger towards Mark Carney. The woman, a politics journalist, did not intend for her shirt to be a political statement.
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