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Inauguration date

According to http://www.cntower.ca/en-CA/Media-Centre/Press-Kit.html (select History of the CN Tower) inauguration happened on June 26, 1976 instead of October 1st as indicated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Francesco Cataldo (talk • contribs) 14:51, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lightning protection

A CNN article (click #25) listing the world's greatest engineering feats mentions that ...on average, lightning strikes the tower 75 times every year. Long copper strips, which run down the side of the building and are attached to grounding rods buried below ground, protect the structure from damage.

This really deserves some due coverage in this article:

Is there a public log of lightning strikes?
What kind of conductors are there? What kind of ground system?
Do the conductors need replacement or other maintenance?
What part(s) of the tower is(are) protected?
Is the protection good enough that evacuations are not needed during a storm?
Is there a current meter for scientific research?

—EncMstr (talk) 01:16, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Main Pod or Main Deck

The article needs consistency. Some parts of it call the central part of the tower the Main Pod and some parts call it the Main Deck. What is the proper term? Once the proper term is determined, the lesser-known term should be removed. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:43, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Table header formatting needs a minor fix.

CN_Tower#Lighting Should be able to get it restored fairly quickly.

In case it's only visible on my computer for some reason: it's literally displaying "Date ! Colour ! Occasion"

Sharkretriever (talk) 23:23, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 02:17, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

File:Toronto - ON - Toronto Harbourfront7.jpg to appear as POTD

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The CN Tower is a 553.33 m high (1,815.4 ft) concrete communications and observation tower in downtown Toronto, Ontario. Upon completion in 1976, it was the world's tallest free-standing structure and tallest tower. It held both records for 34 years until the completion of Burj Khalifa and Canton Tower, respectively, both in 2010. It remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere.Photograph: Taxiarchos228

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The photo labelled "Main Pod Construction April 1975" is a flipped negative. You can see this in the CN logo which is backwards. 207.139.237.114 (talk) 16:13, 3 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 16:47, 3 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The image itself can be changed in Commons, not here. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 17:44, 3 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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-== Events ==
-There is no such thing as a "ten-year anniversary". If it is ten years since something happened, it is the tenth anniversary (in this case, of the opening of the tower).[[Special:Contributions/66.249.82.173|66.249.82.173]] ([[User talk:66.249.82.173|talk]]) 16:07, 4 December 2014 (UTC)