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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2012-01-12

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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2011-10-03

Let us make one thing perfectly clear

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Ontario is parliamentary democracy, albeit within it's own constitutional jurisdiction. As such it is the Ontario legislature that deter...

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...

2011-03-30

Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber Pushing for Two Party System

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It started with Ignatieff joining Harper's anti-coalition bandwagon, the common message being that the big boys don't share power wi...

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2011-03-27

The Coalition is Dead - Someone Tell Stephen Harper

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The idea of a coalition government is dead for the simple reason that it is not in Michael Ignatieff's political interest to enter into ...

2011-03-24

Democracy Election

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While thousands worldwide sacrifice their lives for the right to free elections Canadians complain about having one. That is not to say ther...

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2008-12-11

Harper In His Own Words: On Agreements with the BQ, Plus …

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Thanks to some other bloggers' posts, Harper's past positions have come back to haunt him. I have pulled the relevant information to...

2008-11-30

Prorogation – Government Wants A Do Over

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Special Sunday Fifth Column At first I thought all this talk about prorogation was a simple misunderstanding of terms and that people were t...

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2008-11-29

Conservatives Running Scared, Confused or What

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Special Saturday Fifth Column With a confidence vote scheduled for Monday and the opposition parties scrambling to put together a coalition,...

2008-11-27

Canadians Deserve The Government They Voted For

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The Conservatives clearly do not have the confidence of the majority of the Members of the House of Commons. The Canadian people deserve the...

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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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