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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2023-05-22

How Did We Get Here

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Let me tell you a story about my early days working for the House of Commons in a non-partisan position serving all Members of Parliament a...

2021-12-10

Quebec’s Bill 21 Has It All Wrong

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I am writing this, not because Quebec’s “ An Act respecting the laicity of the State ”, commonly referred to as Bill 21, goes against Canad...

2013-09-13

The Bottom Line on the Parti Québécois Proposed Values Charter

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I was going to write a long blog post on this but since so much has been written about it I think this captures the spirit and intent of the...

2012-01-12

We Must Stop Stephen Harper and the 20% from Destroying Canada

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There has been lots of discussion about how Stephen Harper's majority only represents 40% of voters because of the way our electoral sys...

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2011-04-12

The Debate: Canadian Values Win

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The most interesting thing I noticed about the debate was where all the leaders, or at least all of the federalist leaders, agreed. These we...

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2009-09-17

Talking to Americans About Health Care

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A Message From The Fifth Column To Our American Friends And Neighbours As a Canadian, who like the vast majority of Canadians, would never g...

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2008-12-19

Have A Holly Jolly Season of Cultural Diversity

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Well the godless communist Fifth Column is about to take a break for the Christian Capitalist holiday season. That is, of course, if you lis...

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2007-11-12

Parliament is Our House - Keep It “Open”

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Despite the concerns of Members of Parliament that the Parliament Buildings not become a fortress, the house of Commons security service is ...

2007-11-07

Abolishing The Senate - An Easy Solution

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New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton has called for a national referendum on the abolition of the Senate , while others, including Prime ...

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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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