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If ‘video killed the radio star’…

All-news networks are killing broadcast journalism. So, of course, we need this. Watch Newsworld CBC News Network or CTV News Channel and you’ll see what I call news jockeys – personalities, like the disc jockeys of radio days, who intro and...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 10:19 PM by My journey with AIDS

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Bixi rocks!

Bixi Originally uploaded by Kenn Chaplin Bixi is the name of the outfit which rents bicycles at highly visible stands throughout Montreal. By buying any of a variety of memberships, residents and tourists alike can pick up a bike within a short distance...

Published Sat, May 15 2010 8:02 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: politics, pollution, environment, Montréal, 2010 Toronto municipal elections, Bixi, cycling
Defying the Christmas-based economy

Were it not for Christmas, we hear constantly, many retailers would not make it through a year. The exploited workers of China, whom we have increasingly employed since local manufacturing jobs became of secondary concern to our finding cheap goods...

Published Sat, Dec 11 2010 12:25 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, autobiography, Chaplin Memorial Fund (United Theological College)
The lead story is their own newsroom

CTV Ottawa is, sadly, the lead story on its own, and every other, newscast around eastern Ontario today. A massive fire early this morning destroyed the newsroom as well as the station’s extensive archives. That is a particularly poignant loss as longtime...

Published Sun, Feb 07 2010 11:05 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: media, autobiography, CTV Ottawa, CJOH-CJSS, Max Keeping, Bill Luxton
Haggart Mill and home, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario – now and then

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Published Fri, Aug 17 2012 10:17 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: photography, Perth
For Romeo Saganash, MP, a turning point

I am touched by the frankness and honesty with which New Democrat MP Romeo Saganash has chosen to address his “medical problem”, alcohol dependency, and I hope that he can work his way through the first acute phase of treatment with personal...

Published Tue, Oct 23 2012 8:48 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: childhood trauma, politics, mental health, stigma, First Nations, Métis and Inuit, post-traumatic stress, adult survivors
Where I am

Hibernating almost exclusively in Twitterverse @KennChaplin during Canadian election at the expense of my blog and Facebook…not intentional, just seems inevitable. Read More...

Published Sun, Mar 27 2011 2:03 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: media, politics, facebook, Defeating Stephen Harper, blogging, Cdn poli, Social media, Twitter
We Talk About HIV/AIDS (h/t Amanda)

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Published Sat, Jan 22 2011 4:42 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: media, activism, AIDS and HIV, YouTube, stigma
A doggone Christmas morning

It started off like any other Christmas morning. My two sisters and I were up first, kneeling in front of the tree, keeping a respectful distance for our first assessments, but sliding in ever closer, checking the weight of a few parcels, seeing if there...

Published Mon, Dec 20 2010 12:28 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, Québec, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield QC, Christmas, pet, Cockapoo
There are some blog posts I’d like to forget – on returning to the NDP

I’ve always tried to make this blog somewhat of a record of my life, however fragmented, warts and all. Here in the archives is my defiant abandonment of the New Democratic Party for, let’s say, greener pastures. However right it felt at the...

Published Thu, Aug 25 2011 4:54 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, activism, AIDS and HIV, politics, Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime, social justice, Toronto Centre, New Democratic Party, Jack Layton
Honouring Dad for his birthday

This Sunday, yes April Fools Day, would have been my father’s eighty-fifth birthday. I last saw him when the whole family gathered in Perth to mark his seventy-fifth, within months of his first stroke. It was a very happy occasion, given the warning...

Published Fri, Mar 30 2012 3:03 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, autobiography, photography, Perth, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield QC
Somei-Yoshino Sakura Blossom Festival at Toronto’s High Park

Last year I went in the evening. Today I went at dawn. I learned the other day that the cherry trees in High Park—2,000 Somei-Yoshino Sakuras, a gift from Tokyo bestowed by the Japanese ambassador in 1959, were hitting their peak Saturday. The blossoms...

Published Fri, Apr 13 2012 9:35 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: photography, Toronto
Another long spring walk in Toronto

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Published Wed, Apr 18 2012 8:33 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: AIDS and HIV, photography, Toronto, architecture, Heritage Toronto, Jarvis Street, Osgoode Hall, Toronto AIDS Memorial, The Grange, "Crucified Woman", Royal Conservatory of Music, University of Toronto, Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Campbell House, Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), magnolia blossoms, Trinity Square
This looks to be a major breakthrough in the mysterious web of HIV/AIDS research

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Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 10:12 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: AIDS and HIV, health-care, Planet Earth has AIDS
The infuriating sins of the ‘Fathers’

As I walked up to the subway this morning I passed a Tamil-Canadian family crossing the street from St. James Town to attend Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church – so a confession is in order. I have received Communion from Jesuits there which...

Published Sun, Mar 28 2010 3:42 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: youth, autobiography, child abuse, AIDS and HIV, sexual orientation, faith, church, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), homosexuality, sexual abuse, Roman Catholic Church sexual abuse

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If ‘video killed the radio star’…

Bixi rocks!

Defying the Christmas-based economy

The lead story is their own newsroom

Haggart Mill and home, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario – now and then

For Romeo Saganash, MP, a turning point

Where I am

We Talk About HIV/AIDS (h/t Amanda)

A doggone Christmas morning

There are some blog posts I’d like to forget – on returning to the NDP

Honouring Dad for his birthday

Somei-Yoshino Sakura Blossom Festival at Toronto’s High Park

Another long spring walk in Toronto

This looks to be a major breakthrough in the mysterious web of HIV/AIDS research

The infuriating sins of the ‘Fathers’