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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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...

2022-01-15

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...

2020-12-31

Happy New Years

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Community My New Years Resolution for our society is to no longer worship at the twin altars of individualism and technology but rather ...

2020-11-14

Can America Be Saved

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I am writing this as a citizen of a world that no matter where we live are strongly impacted by whatever America does and whatever happen...

2020-08-31

Lessons We Must Learn From COVID-19 to Build a Better Society

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Community is the key to the future. Those societies that are fairing best in responding to COVID 19 are those with a strong sense of commu...

2019-12-31

Happy New Year – We Are All Going to Die

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Yes, we are all going to die and that's it, the end. Except for the Christians, of course, they get to go to an afterlife of eithe...

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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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