{"id":932034,"date":"2026-10-13T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932034\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:36:10","slug":"the-story-behind-torontos-iconic-cn-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932034\/","title":{"rendered":"The story behind Toronto\u2019s iconic CN Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                   &#13;<br \/>\n                The CN Tower is pictured in Toronto, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Colin Perkel<\/p>\n<p>The CN Tower has dominated the Toronto skyline for half a century.<\/p>\n<p>For tonight\u2019s retro news, author and cultural historian Ed Conroy takes us back in time to look at how the CN Tower came to be.<\/p>\n<p>            Make us a preferred source on Google<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/toronto-cyclists-ask-canadas-top-court-to-weigh-in-on-fords-bike-lane-removal-plan\/\" class=\"nav-item-prev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/e324d9b0fbbc8947bd9a822dce5a3cfd3aa197cb6542b28162f061c7834b8bf8.jpg-1024x679.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"   itemprop=\"image\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\/1;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrevious CHCH News\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tToronto cyclists ask Canada&#8217;s top court to weigh in on Ford&#8217;s bike lane removal plan\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The CN Tower is pictured in Toronto, Wednesday, June 26,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-932034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}