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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2024-04-02

Housing As A Right

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Should housing be a right. That is the question. But the real question is what would that mean and how do we make it more than a token right...

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...

2013-09-13

The Bottom Line on the Parti Québécois Proposed Values Charter

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I was going to write a long blog post on this but since so much has been written about it I think this captures the spirit and intent of the...

2008-12-12

What's The Big Deal About OC Transpo Scheduling

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The OC Transpo strike is not about the money. If the proposed changes to the scheduling system were taken off the table the drivers and mech...

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2008-12-10

OC Transpo Union Chief - World's Worst Communicator

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Some of you may have thought it was Stéphane Dion, but as OC Transpo workers start a strike that will impact thousands of members of the pub...

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2008-04-29

Should the Right to Strike be Sacrosanct

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The labour movement has always held the Right to Strike to be sacrosanct. In reality though, the biggest gains made by workers have been gai...

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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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