{"id":771864,"date":"2026-06-30T21:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/771864\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:11:11","slug":"u-s-inspired-world-cup-beaver-vandalized-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/771864\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-inspired World Cup beaver vandalized in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/OV67N5WZM5FU7CXAZK4BU67KTU.jpg?auth=1f9f15db6d86e3079ef1c285269f12bb3cfa51b17879fdeba9fe1092acfffdb2&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Police say they&#8217;re investigating after a U.S.-themed World Cup beaver statue was vandalized over the weekend.Tara Deschamps\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Police say they\u2019re investigating after a U.S.-themed beaver statue designed to welcome World Cup visitors to Toronto was vandalized over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The Old Town Toronto Business Improvement Area installed 51 four-foot-tall distinct beaver sculptures downtown as part of an artistic scavenger hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Robyn Posner, the non-profit\u2019s director of marketing, says other beaver sculptures have also been vandalized, and the American rodent became the latest victim on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/soccer\/article-beavers-fifa-toronto-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beavers are welcoming World Cup tourists to downtown Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Posner says the organization has seen the hard work that goes into bringing the installations to life and calls the incident regrettable no matter what the culprit\u2019s intentions were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says the vandalism doesn\u2019t hurt the United States, but it hurts the Canadian-American artist behind the sculpture and the Toronto community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Toronto police say they don\u2019t have more information to share about the incident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Police say they&#8217;re investigating after a U.S.-themed World Cup beaver statue was 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