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  • By: Morgan Elliott
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The CN Tower is pictured in Toronto, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin Perkel
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The CN Tower has dominated the Toronto skyline for half a century.

For tonight’s retro news, author and cultural historian Ed Conroy takes us back in time to look at how the CN Tower came to be.

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