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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2024-04-23

Doug Ford: Should we be thankful for small mercies ?

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So is there anything good to say about Doug Ford. Well he is not Pierre Poilievre or Danielle Smith. A t least Ford does not seek vote...
2022-01-15

Intuitive Lessons from The Pandemic – A Fantasy

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This post is not based on comprehensive research or particular expertise on my part. Rather it is more what we would have called “common sen...
2021-04-16

Ontario’s COVID-19 Disaster in Five Words

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The Ontario government would like to blame the behaviour of Ontario’s citizens for this disaster implying somehow we are so much worse than ...
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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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