Career
Clearwater
DownEast Communications
MacDonald purchased this single telecommunications store located on the Bedford Highway that specialized in wireless communications in 1991 and grew it to 51 locations across Atlantic Canada sold to Aliant (now Bell Aliant) on October 1, 2004
The Chickenburger
On March 19, 2007 MacDonald purchased this 50"s style diner located on the Bedford Highway, the Chickenburger, which is considered to be a Bedford, Nova Scotia landmark famous for its burgers that consist of boiled chicken on a hamburger bun. Palooka’s Gym
MacDonald founded Palooka"s Gym, a fitness centre that focuses on its competitive boxing program in addition to general fitness in an old movie house on Göttingen Street in Downtown Halifax in Spring of 2007 On Thursday September 8, 2011 it was announced that Palookas Gym on Göttingen Street would be permanently ceasing operations by the end of the month. Bella Rose Arts Centre
MacDonald contributed $300 000 Computer-aided Design to Theatre Halifax, a community theatre in Halifax West High School.
MacDonald grew up one of seven children in Fairview, Halifax.
He left school in grade nine and worked at odd jobs across Canada, spending some time homeless in Toronto. While in Toronto he started boxing competitively.
MacDonald later completed a General Educational Development.
