Backlash over Donald Trump’s move to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” intensified as Canadians voiced anger at local organizations that appeared to reflect the controversial change.

The dispute escalated Sunday after Google Maps said it would display the new name for users in the United States, a decision that was quickly welcomed by Trump.

Ontario’s largest electricity provider soon found itself drawn into the uproar when its outage map appeared to show the lake under the “Lake America” label.

Hydro One apologized on Sunday, saying the change was not made by the utility itself but stemmed from a third-party mapping provider used for its outage system.

“We are aware that Lake Ontario is being incorrectly labeled on our outage map. The issue originates from a third-party mapping service,” the company said in a statement posted to social media.

‘We are working with our vendor to correct the issue as quickly as possible and restore the proper geographic reference. We regret the error and apologize for any confusion it has caused.’

Canadians were furious at the mistake, given Hydro One is itself a Canadian based company.

‘Ahhh your vender is American. Better fix that soon Hydro One,’ wrote a Canadian customer.

‘Canadian companies should be sourcing Canadian vendors where possible,’ wrote another.

One Canadian used the mistake to call out Trump, writing: ‘Your mad king is completely unchecked and creating nothing but chaos for you and the rest of the free world.’ 

Other sites, including Metrolinx, Infrastructure Ontario and the LCBO also displayed the change. 

The province of Ontario has launched an investigation and promised a change as soon as possible. 

‘Following recent changes by Google, we’re actively reviewing our websites to make sure they all identify Lake Ontario by its correct name: Lake Ontario,’ said Stephen Crawford, minister of public and business service delivery and procurement. 

As of 9pm ET, the outage map reverted the label on the lake to its original name. 

Canadians continued to be outraged and baffled by Trump’s move with Ontario premier Doug Ford comparing it to a comedy sketch.

‘I just don’t see the purpose. It’s absolutely backwards,’ Ford told ABC News’ This Week. 

‘It was like something out of Saturday Night Live when he signed a document saying ‘change to Lake America.’ No one’s going to call it Lake America. It’s been Lake Ontario for hundreds of years. It’s going to continue to be Lake Ontario.’

Ford said that the move, along with Trump’s hardline strategy on tariffs against Canadian goods, were ‘so, so disappointing.’ 

‘I love the US. I love the American people. Canadians love the American people. We differentiate between a great American people and the president,’ he said.

Trump, however, continued to double down on his anti-Canadian rhetoric in a pair of Truth Social posts Sunday. 

‘I don’t want Canadian cars, I don’t want Canadian parts, I don’t want Canadian anything. They’ve been ripping us off for decades, and it’s going to stop,’ he said.

Trump called them ‘abusers’ and compared the goal of fixing economic relations with Canada to ‘stopping Iran.’

‘They want to be treated like a State, but they aren’t one. I deal with the Leadership of many Countries, but I find Canada to be the worst. They are entitled no longer!’

He then encouraged Canadian companies that do business with the United States to move here ‘immediately. 

‘Many of them are Companies that moved out years ago due to stupid U.S. Leadership. When you move back, there are no TARIFFS!’

Trump announced the renaming on Thursday, signing an executive order directing the Interior Department to adopt ‘Lake America’ as the body of water’s name for US federal purposes amid ongoing trade disputes with America’s northern neighbor.

The order does not compel Canada or any international organization to adopt the new name, and Canadian officials have spoken out against the move.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has clashed with Trump on a number of occasions, decried the move last week, rejecting the name change from Lake Ontario, pointing to the name’s indigenous roots from a Wendat word meaning ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake is great.’ 

Doug Ford erected a giant ‘Lake Ontario’ sign on his side of America’s northern border in a show of protest over Trump’s move, posting up a message that read: ‘Lake Ontario. Now and Always’. 

Google Maps made the switch from Lake Ontario’s name to Lake America for US users following an executive renaming order from Trump last week, and the president posted a screen grab of the change on his Truth Social account on Sunday.

In a statement, Google noted that the move, ‘does not have any impact on Canadian naming conventions or ​how the rest of the ‌world refers to the ‌lake.’

‘Those in Canada will continue to see ‘Lake Ontario’ on Google Maps, ‘and those outside … the US and Canada will see both names,’ the tech giant added.

The company took a similar approach to Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to be the ‘Gulf of America’ earlier in his second term.

Trump also celebrated the name change with a post of an AI video of himself dancing next to a ‘Lake America’ sign.

Lake Ontario forms part of the international boundary between New York State and the Canadian province of Ontario.

It has been jointly managed under the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty for more than a century.

But when he signed the executive order on Thursday, Trump said he had contemplated the name change for a ‘long time.’

He then suggested he may not be finished tinkering with the map – joking that the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean could eventually find itself in his sights.

‘Actually, as you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico and we changed it, and now it’s very routinely the Gulf of America,’ Trump said last week.

‘So, if you think about it, we have a Gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean. So, maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific.’

U.S. forces carried out strikes Sunday on two Iranian rocket launchers after the military said it detected Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) personnel preparing to fire rockets armed with sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global shipping route. The operation drew an immediate threat of retaliation from Tehran and marked the first known American strike inside Iran since late July.

The targets were located on Larak Island, an Iranian island near the strategically vital waterway, U.S. officials told multiple media outlets in confirming the strike.

“Earlier today U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into Strait of Hormuz,” one U.S. official said.

The official added that American forces continue to closely watch activity in the area and are ready to safeguard the free movement of commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

The IRGC soon confirmed the attack, saying Iranian military personnel and civilians had been killed or injured and promising to retaliate against those behind it. Iran’s Tasnim news agency, which is linked to the Guards, reported preliminary and unofficial figures indicating two people were killed and two others wounded.

“The terrorist enemy’s aggression on Larak Island will be met with punishment for the aggressor,” the IRGC said in a statement carried by Iran’s official IRNA news agency.

IRGC spokesman Brig. Gen. Hossein Mohebi escalated the threat, calling the strike a “strategic and fatal error” by the Trump administration that would carry “severe repercussions.”

“The adversary will face the ramifications of this faulty calculus across both the economic and military arenas,” Mohebi said.

Iranian officials issued additional threats in the hours after the attack, warning that the U.S. response would be met with a more painful retaliation.

“Undoubtedly, no crime, at any level, goes unanswered; a response that is devastating, more painful, and instructive, which will complete the chain of your failures,” Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Azizi warned. “Wait in fear and terror!”

A spokesman for Iran’s armed forces separately declared that Tehran’s response to the attack would be “definitive.”

Sunday’s strike came days after President Donald Trump specifically warned Iran against attempting to place new mines in Hormuz after U.S. forces cleared Iranian mines from the strait’s international shipping lanes.

Writing on Truth Social last week, Trump announced that the U.S. Navy had removed or detonated the mines in international waters before warning Tehran: “Iran has been notified that any ship or boat placing new mines will be immediately and systematically destroyed.”

The president said U.S. forces were monitoring “every square inch” of the strait and declared a “Zero Tolerance policy on mine placement in full force and effect.”

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Thursday that American forces had cleared Iranian sea mines from the internationally recognized Traffic Separation Scheme through Hormuz, a development the command described as a watershed moment in its months-long effort to restore freedom of navigation through the waterway.

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CENTCOM said the shipping lanes were “free of Iranian sea mines” following an operation involving Navy divers, SEALs and U.S. airpower.

“International shipping lanes are open and momentum is building,” CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper said.

The operation followed months of Iranian efforts to restrict commercial shipping through Hormuz, through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas shipments passed before the war.

The U.S. has meanwhile continued enforcing its naval blockade of Iran while allowing commercial traffic from other Gulf states to move through the waterway.

In an update issued after reports of Sunday’s strike emerged, CENTCOM said its forces had now redirected 83 commercial vessels, disabled three and boarded two to ensure compliance with the blockade. The command accompanied the figures with an image of a U.S. sailor directing an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter aboard the USS Delbert D. Black as the guided-missile destroyer sailed in the Arabian Sea enforcing the blockade.

The update came two days after Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz open, saying Friday of the strategic waterway: “That sucker is open.”

Iran, however, has continued to insist the strait remains closed and that vessels cannot pass without Tehran’s authorization.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said over the weekend that Tehran considers itself to remain at war and would not reopen Hormuz until the United States fulfills what Iran considers its commitments under an earlier memorandum of understanding.

“The Strait of Hormuz is closed,” Gharibabadi said, while also warning that Iran could act militarily before coming under attack.

“Why should we always wait for America to attack?” he asked. “We can take preemptive action.”

The Trump administration paused its last sustained campaign of strikes inside Iran in late July after two weeks of U.S. military operations, shifting much of its pressure campaign toward the naval blockade and an escalating effort to economically isolate Tehran.

Sunday’s attack marked the first known U.S. strike inside Iran since that pause — and came just days after Trump warned that any renewed attempt to mine the Strait of Hormuz would be met with immediate U.S. military action.

The IRGC gave no indication Sunday of when or how it intended to carry out its threatened response.

Andy Burnham came under fire last night amid claims his latest adjustment to the prison early-release programme could put the public at risk.

The Prime Minister is facing renewed criticism after revising the policy so that the killers of PC Andrew Harper remain in custody — a move welcomed by campaigners, but one that critics say will also clear the way for hundreds of other dangerous offenders to leave prison sooner.

In the latest reversal over the deeply contentious scheme, Mr Burnham announced that prisoners convicted of unlawful killing would be barred from early release.

The decision means Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, convicted in 2020 of the officer’s manslaughter, will no longer qualify for release next year — bringing relief to PC Harper’s family and senior policing figures.

However, ministers are seeking to create the extra prison places needed for the change by freeing inmates serving indefinite imprisonment for public protection sentences, known as IPPs, which were imposed between 2005 and 2012 on offenders judged to pose a serious risk to the public.

Current and former ministers warned that the solution could pose a far higher risk to the public because many IPP prisoners have been assessed as too dangerous to release.

One of Mr Burnham’s own senior ministers condemned the plans, saying: ‘The Prime Minister has been too focused on media response rather than actual risk.

‘He’s bowed to public pressure over the reaction to PC Harper’s killers and not focused on the actual high-risk, high-harm perpetrators.

‘Are those who’ve committed manslaughter likely to come out of prison and commit manslaughter again? No. But I can guarantee you that the obsessed stalker or domestic abuser will come out and relentlessly pursue their victim again.’

Mr Burnham also faced criticism from campaigners who said the exemptions to the scheme did not go far enough because any persistent offenders, such as domestic abusers and stalkers, will still be let out early, putting victims at risk.

Some 5,000 prisoners had been due to be released early from next month under plans to ease jail overcrowding, down from 6,000 after ministers intervened to exempt rapists and serious child sex offenders.

Yesterday Mr Burnham limited the scheme further, blocking all those convicted of manslaughter, death by dangerous driving, indecent assault and grooming gang perpetrators.

He said: ‘We will now not only be keeping offenders serving time for indecent assault locked up, but also those in prison for manslaughter and death by dangerous driving.

‘This means the awful criminals responsible for the killing of PC Andrew Harper will not have their sentence shortened.’

Dame Nicole Jacobs, Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales, said: ‘For victims of domestic abuse across the country, this announcement won’t bring reassurance. 

‘While it’s good to see more dangerous offenders exempt from this scheme, I remain deeply concerned about the number of abusers who will still be eligible for early release.

‘This decision does not change the fact that victims and survivors will still be forced to take measures to protect themselves from dangerous abusers because the Government and our criminal justice system cannot.’

Former justice secretary David Gauke warned that the release of IPP prisoners carried ‘much higher risks’, adding: ‘The reality is that the remaining IPPs are in prison for good reason. 

‘They have been assessed (repeatedly) as being high risk. I looked at their prison disciplinary records and in many cases it was clear why they’d not been released.

‘Caution is still needed. In terms of public protection, releasing IPPs comes with much higher risks than the categories excluded from the early-release scheme.’

Tory justice spokesman Nick Timothy said: ‘They’re among the most dangerous people in prison. Will they all be released? Just some? How many? And on what timescale? What about those who would have had a life sentence had IPP not existed?’

He added: ‘This is Andy Burnham’s fifth position on early release in less than six weeks since he became PM. There are serious questions about what he’s now proposing. 

‘Put plainly, Andy Burnham’s early-release policy will endanger the British public. He seems to be trying to stop the release of one set of dangerous criminals by releasing another set of dangerous criminals.’

Sir Robert Buckland, a former justice secretary, said: ‘I know first-hand the crisis facing the criminal justice system in Britain, but changing the early-release scheme from favouring one set of dangerous criminals to another set of dangerous criminals does very little to protect the public.

‘While Mr Burnham focuses on winning a PR battle, today’s announcement will still put decent law-abiding citizens in danger. The Government must get a grip and explain exactly how and when it will increase prison capacity, which is the only way to put a stop to this crisis once and for all.’

The PM has also met revenge-porn campaigner and former Love Island star Georgia Harrison to discuss her campaign for ‘Georgia’s Law’.

Stephen Bear was jailed in 2023 for sharing a sex tape of Ms Harrison on his OnlyFans page. But after his release from prison, Bear breached his order by posting degrading comments about Ms Harrison online.

She is calling for a social media ‘kill switch’ so posts are removed while they are reviewed.

IPP sentences were scrapped in 2012, but the abolition was not retrospective, leaving many IPP prisoners behind bars because they can be released only once the Parole Board is satisfied they no longer need to be confined for public safety.

As of June 30, 856 IPP prisoners were behind bars. Eight in ten of those have served at least ten years beyond the minimum term at which they can apply for parole.

A further 1,415 prisoners have been recalled after being handed IPP sentences.

A cross-party oversight group will be set up to look at the IPP system. Mr Burnham said spaces will also be created by deporting foreign prisoners.

Thames Valley Police boss Jason Hogg welcomed the guarantee that Bowers and Cole will remain behind bars. 

But he said many police leaders remain concerned about plans to release offenders early and jail fewer criminals by ditching shorter prison sentences.

He described a ‘criminal justice system in crisis’, warning that forces would have to shift resources from other policing priorities to deal with offenders released into the community.

Bowers and Cole were passengers in the car that dragged PC Harper to his death after he tried to stop a gang stealing a quad bike in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, in 2019.

Aileen O’Connor, the chairman of the Thames Valley Police Federation, started a petition that attracted more than a million signatures to keep them in prison. 

She said: ‘We are pleased the Government – despite what was, frankly, initial reluctance – has eventually listened, seen sense and made the right decision to keep these lowlifes behind bars.’