Robert Reguly, Canadian journalist (Toronto Star), died from heart disease he was , 80.

Robert Joseph Reguly was a three-time National Newspaper Award-winning journalist  died from heart disease he was , 80..^[2]
Robert Reguly was born in Fort William, Ontario.^[3] He was one of Canada's top news reporters in the 1950s and 1960s. He was at the forefront of the mid-20th century news war between the Toronto Telegram and the Toronto Star.

(January 19, 1931 – February 24, 2011)

Reguly won a National Newspaper Award in 1966 for tracking down and interviewing Gerda Munsinger, a German woman at the center of a Canadian political scandal. In 1977, he left the Star to join the staff of the Toronto Sun, where he specialized in investigative pieces on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In 1981, he left the Sun and became a spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. Since his retirement, he has become a successful freelance writer, writing mainly for outdoors magazines. In 2001, he was nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award for an article in Outdoor Canada magazine. His son, Eric Reguly, writes for the The Globe and Mail.
Reguly contracted heart disease in his last years. He died at his Toronto residence on February 24, 2011.
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