r/technology • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 3h ago

Politics Quebec updates government websites to remove ‘Lake America’ from some maps

https://montrealgazette.com/news/provincial-news/lake-ontario-renamed-lake-america-on-quebec-government-maps/
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u/crivando 3h ago

That’s what happens when you embed Google Maps without pinning your geographical locale settings.

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u/No_Construction2407 2h ago

They should honestly switch to openstreetmaps.org instead while their at it. Google embeds tracking data on their maps, so they know every visitor to that website, they use this to sell targeted ad data.

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u/crivando 2h ago

100%. A civic government website serving citizen maps shouldn't be feeding Google’s ad-tracking ecosystem. OpenStreetMap is literally built for this.

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u/vicegrip 1h ago

It’s what happens when you trust Google.

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u/kisk22 1h ago

Yep, I saw a post the other day showing many Canadian Government websites showing "Lake America". I can guarantee Carney is loving this though, his poll numbers only go up the more he can cause a rift with the US.

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u/SmackEh 49m ago

...the more he can cause a rift with the US.

You think he (Carney) is causing a rift with the U.S.?

What kind of bullshit partisan take is that?

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u/Fit_Earth_339 3h ago

The dumbest Trump-Epstein files distraction yet.

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u/Adrian_Alucard 3h ago

It's weird he did it twice (Gulf of Mexico)

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u/HeadmasterPrimeMnstr 2h ago

Bruh, people need to stop saying this shit.

He won, the files did nothing and they all got away slightly damaged but still in power.

He doesn't need a distraction from the files. This is just typical performative Trump garbage.

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u/Xeno_man 2h ago

You do realize that most of the files were never releases and the handful that were were all heavily redacted. Trump didn't release shit, that is why Trump needs distractions every time someone asks about the rest of the files.

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u/HeadmasterPrimeMnstr 2h ago

No one is asking about the rest of the files though, at least not while he's in term because there are seemingly way bigger priorities that people are worried about, increasingly it's market instability and the Iran war.

He's not doing these things as distractions, he's just doing these things because that's who the fuck he and the GOP are.

I'm not even saying the files aren't important, or that convictions and more transparency needs to happen around them, just for God's sake stop saying everything single fucking thing he does is "a distraction."

It's limiting to the collective critical thought capacity of the nation, including you.

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u/Fairwhetherfriend 1h ago

He's not doing these things as distractions, he's just doing these things because that's who the fuck he and the GOP are.

Yeah, those are not mutually exclusive statements, and it's kind of weird that you're acting like they are.

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u/rycapps 2h ago

Canada needs to rename it to Lake Pedophile Trump.

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u/coconutpiecrust 2h ago

Why cant countries make their own tech companies? Like, why are we all enriching one rogue state?..

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u/shm0 1h ago

Canada did have it's own tech companies. They were absorbed into American companies.. i.e. Corel, ATI, Shopify, Slack, etc.

We also used to have our own OTHER companies, that too were bought out by American companies. i.e. Tim Hortons.

We let the country that literally makes up money infect every part of the world and now everyone is paying the price. The entire world needs to move away from American everything.

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u/robertmachine 1h ago

You forgot Blsckberry ;)

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u/NuclearRouter 14m ago

Shopify and Blackberry are still Canadian. Pretty much everything else was absorbed into US companies.

Blackberry still exists and it's OS found it's niche use in the automotive world after hemorrhaging just about every last dollar.

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u/poopBuccaneer 57m ago

Why is the Quebec government using maps that aren't localized to Canadian French in the first place? That lake should be labeled as Lac Ontario

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u/CobaltCarl81 2h ago

Trump is the GOAT at trolling the election losers to have temper tantrum meltdowns à la "angry_kid_sticks_ remote_in_butt.avi"

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u/keylax 1h ago

You've commented this exact thing before, why do you keep bringing up shoving remotes up your butt? No amount of posts in r/Catholicism will change your true feelings. Don't be ashamed, embrace your true self.

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u/yuusharo 1h ago

You’re talking to a 4 month old bot.

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u/keylax 1h ago

You're absolutely right!