David Brindle is a

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broadcast journalist and producer. An anchor for CBC Radio and Television, and

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in the 1980s and 1990s, he was Canada's first television personality to publicly acknowledge that he was

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-positive."On the Outs: Gay journalists can't shake an age-old debate"
, ''

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'', April 29, 1999.

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