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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2014-08-10

Much Ado About Religious Accommodation

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Much is being made of a decision by Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) managers at Toronto's Pearson airport to allow a small group of...

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2012-01-02

Sometimes I Really Wonder

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I think we all have friends, relatives or acquaintances that are caught up in Islamophobia and regularly send out e-mails warning that the M...

2011-09-11

Thinking It Through Brings Clarity

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So what is an atheist who believes in a single secular public school system supposed to think about noon hour Muslim prayers in public schoo...

2008-01-21

Multiculturalism and Reasonable Accommodation - It’s as Canadian as a Kilt or a Hijab

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When you invite friends over do you ever serve food that their religion forbids them to eat. If you go to a wedding of someone of another fa...

2007-09-10

The Canada Elections Act - CLARIFICATION

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It appears that I have been duped into believing that the Prime Minister actually understood the legislation that his government proposed a...

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The Canada Elections Act and "Reasonable Accommodation"

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The Canada Elections Act has recently been amended to require photo identification of voters. Elections Canada , the body responsible for en...

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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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