Canadian City Considers Renaming Trump Avenue to "Taco Avenue"
Councillors backed the first step after residents split 21-21 in a 2021 vote, and any change needs support from more than half the street.
- Ottawa City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to initiate renaming Trump Avenue, a residential street in Central Park that has carried the name for about 25 years.
- Escalating Canada-US trade tensions and Trump's repeated criticism of Canada prompted the action. A 2021 renaming attempt failed when residents split evenly, with 21 supporting change and 21 opposing it.
- Councilor Tim Tierney told CNN that suggested replacements include Pelosi Avenue, Obama Avenue, and "Taco Avenue," which refers to the acronym "Trump Always Chickens Out," coined in 2025.
- On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. government to refer to Lake Ontario as "Lake America," though the order cannot compel Canada to adopt the name.
- Renaming the street is not guaranteed, as the process requires support from more than half of residents and public consultation. Officials expect no further progress until after Ottawa's municipal election in October.
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By Alessandra Freitas, CNN The city council of a Canadian city is considering changing the name of a street that carries the name of President Donald Trump, and among those who are shuffled to replace it are "Obama Avenue" and "Taco Avenue."On Wednesday, the city council of Ottawa took a first step to change the name of the Ottawa Post City Council considers changing the name of the street that bears the name of Trump to Taco Avenue appeared fir…
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I couldn’t help ruminating on yesterday’s news of a renewed push to find a more suitable name for Trump Avenue in Ottawa’s Central Park neighbourhood. We live in an era of woke iconoclasm — some would say in the dying days of one — but this is obviously a different sort of matter. Trump Avenue started making national headlines in 2021, when city council polled residents about the offending nomenclature but failed to secure a majority in favour o…
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