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.

Showing posts with label debate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debate. Show all posts
2011-04-12

The Debate: Canadian Values Win

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The most interesting thing I noticed about the debate was where all the leaders, or at least all of the federalist leaders, agreed. These we...
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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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2008-10-01

The Great Debate - My Predictions

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As an almost unilingual anglophone I will not be making predictions on the French debate, but I am posting my English debate predictions now...
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2008-02-22

Hillier Sees Democracy as a Sign of Weakness

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Debate is the basis of our Parliamentary democracy. Indeed, even the word “Parliament” is derived from the French “parler”. parliament ...
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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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