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And yes, this is exactly the kind of thing Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation is about. Maps change. Names change. Language changes. Then one day everyone acts like it was always that way. jasonbu.online/books/pejora...

jasonbu.onlinePejorative: Echoes of a NationA near-future Canada is quietly annexed under the banner of continental "unity". Through a recovered archive of testimonies, smuggled documents, and corrupted broadcasts, one archivist tries to rememb...

Trump is renaming Canadian geography and dystopian lines have crawled out of fiction and into the news: “They didn’t rename the country. They wrote around it until it disappeared.” I wrote that as a warning. I’d really like current events to stop treating Pejorative like a fucking checklist.

LOL. First it was “hegemons,” now it’s “hydronyms.” Damn, I love living in a country where our political discourse occasionally expects us to read above a Grade 5 level. 😂🇨🇦

Screenshot of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s post explaining that Lake Ontario’s Wendat name predates both Canada and the United States, ending: “Lake Ontario - then, now and always.”

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

Morning. Moe joined. Smith worries more about soothing her extremist base than Canada. Turnip says America needs nothing from us. Refineries, farms and grid disagree. Hoekstra forwards his boss’s tantrum. Joly: Many cards. Dolly, Curry? GenX hurts. Buy Canadian. Bye U.S. Coffee’s fk’in on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Sigh. Trump says late changes sound like him. Of course. BC Cons shed MLAs, racism waved away. Pierre wants parliament back for content. Let adults handle the trade war. Kenney against separatists. Hell iced over. We have icebreakers coming. It's Ontarí:io. RIP, Dolly. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Bacon coffee at the CNE. 👀 Civilization remains under review. Turnip’s back to “Governor Carney.” Vance called us a state. Cute. Sovereignty isn’t for sale. Alberta wants AI powered by gas. Quebec’s building six icebreakers. Coffee negotiable, sort of. Country isn’t. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Wet one. Trump wants Canada to bend on French, limit trade, accept 50% tariffs. Non. French is Canada. Va donc chier. PP: unjustified. Good. Get caucus behind Canada muzzle Jivani, or move. Turnip started a conflict he can't explain or exit. Punt Hoekstra. Fini. Le café est prêt. ☕

Morning. Thar she blows. U.S. changed terms, slapped tariffs, then blamed Canada. We had CUSMA. They broke it and want credit for worse. Fuck that. Alberta seppies want America: president, guns, “lawful sexual orientation.” Red flag. CNE mac-and-cheese smoothies. Society’s broken. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦