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It was seven years ago today, in the wee hours of the morning,…

Chopin, Roman Polanski, and a cab “What a great film!” I thought. “No wonder Adrien Brody won the ‘Best Actor’ Oscar.” As I walked out of the Carlton I welcomed the freshness of the night air. I glanced at my watch. It wasn’t quite midnight. Heading east...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 9:06 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: autobiography, personal journal, AIDS and HIV, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)
Now with pictures: Activists warmly received – okay met with mild bemusement – during very cold “Die-in” for Bill C-393

It was such a cold walk down to Yonge-Dundas Square this morning I was glad to be able to walk the full block south from Gerrard to Gould Streets through the corridors of Jorgenson Hall at Ryerson University. I was dressed for the outdoors reminiscent...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 10:20 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, autobiography, activism, AIDS and HIV, politics, Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime, social justice, Planet Earth has AIDS, Toronto, Xtra!, Capital Xtra!
December 6th

While we honour the memory of all victims of male violence against women everywhere, before and since, Canadians particularly recall today – on this our National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women – the names of the victims...

Published Wed, Dec 05 2012 5:34 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: grief, activism, gender, Dec. 6, white ribbon, men's violence against women, Ecole Polytechnique, misogyny
Foggy weekend morning

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Published Tue, Oct 22 2013 9:05 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

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Post #1031: My latest ‘Aha!’ moment

I’m very close to finishing the book Survivor – Auschwitz, The Death March and My Fight for Freedom by Sam Pivnik and some two-thirds of the way through I was jolted by this passage: We could have run, could have made it, could have reached...

Published Thu, Aug 22 2013 11:56 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: childhood trauma, mental health, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), sexual abuse, biography/autobiography, Sam Pivnik, Auschwitz concentration camp, Primo Levi, Holocaust
World AIDS Day 2010 – Stories – 2 – “This friend living with AIDS who gave me so much…” by Dominique Gauvreau (Google translation edited by KC)

Each author in this series has generously given me permission to post their work. The views and experiences shared are their own. Where applicable, links will also be provided at the end of the piece. This is the World AIDS Day, 2010 entry in Dominique...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 11:49 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, activism, AIDS and HIV, spirituality, stigma, sexual orientation, World AIDS Day, Québec, Montréal, faith, church, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, fundamentalism, social conservatives, sexual abuse, homophobia, youth suicide, biography/autobiography
Canada’s 19th-century canals continue to be make-work projects

The Rideau Canal, 175 years young last year, has a kid brother not too far away named The Tay Canal. Far smaller than the Rideau, which winds its way from Ottawa to Kingston, the Tay extends just 9.8 kilometres from Beveridge Bay on Lower Rideau...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 4:17 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: photography, Perth, Tay Canal, Beckwith Street Bridge, kayaking, John Haggart, Scott Reid
This looks to be a major breakthrough in the still-sometimes-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 Walrus Â» Stephen Harper and the Theo-cons Â» Canada Religion Politics

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Published Wed, Feb 24 2010 5:26 PM by My journey with AIDS

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Would I dare – for the Stephen Lewis Foundation? Maybe, with some ideas!

After President Obama’s lively, wide-ranging chat with David Letterman Monday it was a treat to watch as another President, Bill Clinton, occupied the guest chair on Tuesday. Clinton is in New York for the international gathering of his Clinton...

Published Tue, Sep 22 2009 11:12 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: Stephen Lewis, Kenn's 50th birthday, Stephen Lewis Foundation "A Dare to Remember", activism, AIDS and HIV
Another long Toronto walk – (edits and tags to follow sleep)

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Published Tue, Apr 17 2012 10:50 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: AIDS and HIV, photography, Toronto, architecture, Heritage Toronto
Scanned: my first post-positive lab results

I found this in a plastic-covered folder in my Rubbermaid file drawer: My physician at that time, the late Ed Kamski, ordered these tests as a baseline after giving me the results of my “positive” HIV-antibody test. (He also told me that a...

Published Tue, Apr 03 2012 9:01 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, AIDS and HIV, mental health, CD-4, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)
Follow-up on my aches and pains

The x-rays (not exactly as pictured) last week were negative for anything untoward. All bones, and metal objects substituting for same reinforcing my femur, are intact. That’s a relief! The aches and pains continue intermittently, however, with...

Published Mon, Sep 19 2011 1:13 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, Displaced intertrochanteric fracture of the right femur
Toronto’s Distillery District a destination unto itself

I had occasion to attend a meeting today at the former Gooderham & Worts distillery complex, not having visited “The Distillery District” since shortly after it opened as a pedestrian attraction of shops, art galleries, outdoor sculptures and condos...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 7:51 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

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A piece o’ me on the Perth ice

Although there’s been a major melt since, just as my bruises have changed colour, I encountered some very thick and slippery ice in Perth over the holidays. During a post-Christmas walk a patch of ice between Codes Mill and Stewart Park got the...

Published Sun, Jan 02 2011 12:54 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: photography, Perth

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It was seven years ago today, in the wee hours of the morning,…

Now with pictures: Activists warmly received – okay met with mild bemusement – during very cold “Die-in” for Bill C-393

December 6th

Foggy weekend morning

Post #1031: My latest ‘Aha!’ moment

World AIDS Day 2010 – Stories – 2 – “This friend living with AIDS who gave me so much…” by Dominique Gauvreau (Google translation edited by KC)

Canada’s 19th-century canals continue to be make-work projects

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

The Walrus Â» Stephen Harper and the Theo-cons Â» Canada Religion Politics

Would I dare – for the Stephen Lewis Foundation? Maybe, with some ideas!

Another long Toronto walk – (edits and tags to follow sleep)

Scanned: my first post-positive lab results

Follow-up on my aches and pains

Toronto’s Distillery District a destination unto itself

A piece o’ me on the Perth ice