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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2023-01-13

Is It Time For The NDP To Rebirth Itself

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The North American right wing has been overtaken by a vile hateful Donald Trump inspired populist MAGA movement that has spawned the Freedu...

2012-06-11

The Bill That Couldn't Happen Here

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Back when I worked for the House of Commons, every time an Omnibus Bill was proposed (and the usual discussions and negotiations around spli...

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2011-09-05

Realigning Canada's Political Spectrum

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Canadians have traditionally held social democratic values while supporting centrist political parties. Canadians support universal single p...

2009-11-12

What is Progressive About the Liberal Party

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Well, nothing, actually. The Liberal Party has always been a centrist (and opportunistic) party, slightly to the left of the Progressive Con...

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2007-12-04

Schreiber Speaks The Truth

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IMHO, the most significant statement Karlheinz Schreiber made before the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics tod...

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2007-02-03

Crisis Calls for Social Change (November 2, 1971)

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This is the First Column in the Fifth Column series. It was followed by "The Second Column" and so forth till the Fifth Column. Cl...

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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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