Bob MacDonald (1929–2006) was a Toronto journalist and conservative columnist. MacDonald was part of the team that founded ''The

Toronto Sun The ''Toronto Sun'' is an English-language tabloid format, tabloid newspaper published daily in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The newspaper is one of several ''Sun'' tabloids published by Postmedia Network. The newspaper's offices are located at Pos ...

'' newspaper after the demise of ''The

Toronto Telegram ''The Toronto Evening Telegram'' was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon newspaper published in Toronto from 1876 to 1971. It had a reputation for supporting the Conservative Party at the federal and the provincial levels. The paper competed wit ...

''. His scoop on government bungling was the tabloid's first front-page story on November 1, 1971. MacDonald's and

Robert Reguly Robert Joseph Reguly (19 January 1931, in Fort William, Ontario – 24 February 2011) was a three-time National Newspaper Award-winning investigative journalist. He was one of Canada's top reporters in the 1950s and 1960s, and was at the foref ...

's investigations of RCMP wrongdoing in the 1970s feature prominently in the newspaper's history. Eventually, this work resulted in a police search of the ''Sun'' newsroom for leaked documents (1978) and charges against ''Sun'' editor Peter Worthington under the

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. These were dismissed at a preliminary hearing. MacDonald was a vocal critic of the Trudeau government and of Liberal and NDP governments in Ontario. He began his career with the ''

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'' in 1951, wrote for the ''

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'' from 1953 to 1959 before moving to the ''Telegram''. MacDonald died February 26, 2006, after a 14-year battle with

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. His daughter Moira MacDonald was ''The Toronto Suns education columnist from 2000 to 2012.

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