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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2013-01-11

The Teachers Dilemma

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Nobody wants to give in to a bully. Indeed teachers teach students not to give in to bullies and teachers are expected to be role models and...

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2013-01-10

Teachers Political Protest Not a Strike and Not Illegal

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First of all it is not a strike because it is not part of the collective bargaining process because with a government imposed contract, impo...

2010-04-23

Question for Dalton McGuinty About Sex Education

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When should students learn about sex in the classroom? Before or after they learn about it in the schoolyard? Before or after they start hav...

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2007-10-03

The Hypocritical Lies in Dalton McGuinty's Education Ads

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Listen to the Liberal education ads (Number 7) and tell me if you did not hear Dalton McGuinty say that public schools are what makes Ontar...

2007-10-01

Faith-Based About Face

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Tory's Policy No Longer Tories Policy John Tory raised this issue with a principled but wrong position. Now he is just wrong. Meanwhile ...

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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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