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...

2022-12-21

Left, Right or Centre – Explainer

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In today’s age of populism, with ideology apparently dead, how do you now if you are on the left or right or in the centre. There are indeed...

2022-03-03

Another Way of Looking at Political Parties in Canada

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With Pierre Poilievre as the Tory leadership front runner I anticipate the Conservative and People’s parties fighting for the right wing fr...

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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2008-10-06

I Like The New Tory TV Ad

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I have to say I like the new Conservative Party "certainty" ad, although it is not available on their website. It is not an attack...

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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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