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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2025-11-23

On Reforming Capitalism

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These are the conventional definitions of capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means o...

2024-02-15

Is There a Conspiracy to Break and Then Fix Health Care ?

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So how would this work. I suggest first you underfund public health care as well as simply not spending budgeted funds. As the public facili...

2023-02-27

COVID-19 Pandemic Reflections and The Next Pandemic

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Well the pandemic is over, at least according to most governments, science and medicine not so much. So now it is time to look back, and to...

2022-04-13

Now Comes The Necessary Part Ontario Edition

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Nevertheless, and irrregardless of and notwithstanding that federal-provincial jurisdiction exists the actions that are necessary for the n...

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...

2021-09-24

Now Comes The Necessary Part

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We can argue all we want over whether the election was necessary but what is definitely necessary is the government tackling the pressing i...

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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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