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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2010-11-28

What is Really Scary is ...

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Some people will support the police whatever they do. When I saw the recent CBC poll I was disturbed, but then when I saw the CFRA poll I wa...

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2010-03-25

The American Dream and Lazy Poor People

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As a Canadian I find it very difficult to understand the attitude of many Americans, and not just the extreme right, that the poor do not de...

2010-01-25

The People Get It - Harper Hates Democracy

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Well perhaps this is a bit of an overstatement. Perhaps it's more that he just finds it an annoying irritant and inconvenience that prev...

2009-02-12

Random Observations

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OC Transpo Screws Up Scheduling On First Days Back On the first Saturday and Sunday of post-strike service OC Transpo managers, the people w...

2009-02-03

Some Things Are More Important Than Humour

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Parliamentary Democracy Explained

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2008-09-18

We Can Stop Stephen Harper

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As the federal election campaign begins, early polls have indicated the possibility of a Harper majority. How can this be. We have a combina...

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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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