THE FIFTH COLUMN

"This column is dedicated to the proposition that Canada (and indeed the world) is in a crisis situation and that fundamental social change is required to remedy this situation." - The First Column, Lambda November 2, 1971 This blog is inspired by my column of the same name in the Laurentian University Newspaper, Lambda, from 1971-1973. The title refers to the concept of subverting the system from within. To read key excerpts from those columns read the first few posts in this blog.

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2011-08-17

Much Ado About The Wrong Thing - Canadian Forces DisIntegration

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As a political scientist and somewhat of a historian I prefer our system of government based on a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary ...

2009-04-02

Legalizing Spousal Rape In Afghanistan – Not So Foreign to Canadian Law

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As the CBC reports , Afghanistan's proposed law to legalize spousal rape, or to put it in other terms “make it illegal for women to refu...

2008-07-25

Canadian Forces Rewards Disgraced Commander

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The CBC and Ottawa Citizen report that: Canada's military leadership has quietly promoted to general the soldier who led the ill-fated...

2008-02-22

Hillier Sees Democracy as a Sign of Weakness

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Debate is the basis of our Parliamentary democracy. Indeed, even the word “Parliament” is derived from the French “parler”. parliament ...

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2007-11-28

This Just In - Hillier to Resign

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After months of negotiations the government has reached an agreement in the dispute over the Chief of Defence Staff's refusal to take di...

2007-04-26

Should Canadian Forces Be In Afghanistan

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This is not as simple a question as “Should Canadian Forces be in Iraq ?”. The Iraq war is a unilateral violation of international law based...

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rww: Kanata, Ontario, Canada; Richard W. Woodley was born in Sudbury, Ontario in 1950. He earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Laurentian University where he was the News Editor of the student newspaper Lambda and active in student politics. He was active in the New Democratic Party and Waffle in Sudbury and Kanata, as well as Kanata municipal politics. He was a member of the Bridlewood Residents Hydro Line Committee (BRHLC) and creator of the now archived Bridlewood Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) Information Service. He worked on Parliament Hill for 33 years indexing the Debates of the House of Commons (Hansard) and it's committees. Richard has been an outdoorsperson and environmentalist for most of his life and a life long cyclist.

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