After Donald Trump arbitrarily and foolishly signed an Executive Order changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, an idea that is ridiculous. The name predates both the United States and Canada, Huron Indigenous people’s word “oniatarí:io,” which means “lake of shining waters.”
Here a few of the photographs of LAKE ONTARIO from my archives.
I made my first visit to New York City after 9/11 in May 2003, after I had attended an academic conference on the Second World War at Princeton University, After I got into Manhatten, I took the subway to Ground Zero to see for myself and take some photographs. (An old film camera with Ektachrome) […]
On September 7, 2005, twenty-one years ago now, as one of the Toronto events marking the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the families who had lost loved ones in two terrorist events 9/11 and the Air India bombing in 1985 met together. I was one of the journalists who […]
After Donald Trump arbitrarily and foolishly signed an Executive Order changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, an idea that is ridiculous. The name predates both the United States and Canada, Huron Indigenous people’s word “oniatarí:io,” which means “lake of shining waters.” Here a few of the photographs of LAKE ONTARIO from my […]
