With his new album of Canadiana, Bryan Adams is waking up the commentators

The Globe and Mail · Brad Wheeler · 2026-11-06 11:00 UTC

How’s It Goin’ includes elbows-up anthem 51st State and protest song Lake Ontario

With glowing hearts we see thee rise.

After blazing a hot streak of hits in the 1980s and 90, Bryan Adams kept making records. They just didn’t get a lot of attention.

Now, with his sabre-rattling single Lake Ontario, the scratchy-voiced Canadian is making waves once again. The song responds to U.S. President Donald Trump arbitrarily renaming the international body of water Lake America.

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