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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2012-05-10

Are Foreign Funded Canadian Charities Soft on Child Terrorists

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Analysis by the Canadian Press shows that the three of the top four Canadian charities that received the most foreign funding were Care Can...

2010-09-12

Who Are Terrorists Anyway

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To me, terrorists were always people who targeted innocent civilians going about their daily lives. So how does a 15 year old child soldier ...

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2009-02-11

The Right Wing on Child Soldiers and War Resisters

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The right wing believes that a fifteen year old child soldier (according to the United Nations definition) accused of killing an American so...

2008-05-14

Dion to Liberals: We Don't Tell It As It Is

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We knew that before but now it's official . Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said he disagreed with Dallaire's choice of words, and hint...

2008-05-13

Omar Khadr Is a Child Soldier-Period!

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If anyone can talk with authority on human rights and child soldiers it is Senator Roméo Dallaire . The CBC reported that: Canada has sun...

2008-02-07

Omar Khadr: al-Qaeda Says it Best

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Ironically, perhaps the best description of Omar Khadr's status as a child soldier was stated by the terrorists themselves, in a biogra...

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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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