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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2011-05-28

The NDP, The Quebec Question and 50% + 1

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Much has been made of Jack Layton's "controversial" comments on a possible Quebec sovereignty referendum . The fact is that it...

2007-11-07

Abolishing The Senate - An Easy Solution

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New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton has called for a national referendum on the abolition of the Senate , while others, including Prime ...

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2007-10-12

I Don't Want to Blog about The Election

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It's the end of Ontario Election Week and what is there to say. No surprises in the election, and that was no surprise. The biggest disa...

2007-10-11

The People Have Spoken

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The 2007 Ontario election results are in. There will be no analysis in this post as yesterday was the day for the people to speak and today ...

2007-10-10

Be Sure To Vote Today

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If you live in Ontario be sure to vote today. You can vote in the Ontario election if you are: * 18 years of age or older, * a Canad...

2007-09-25

The Big Lie About MMP

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The Big lie about MMP is that candidates on "the list" are somehow selected differently, and less democratically, than local candi...

2007-09-21

Vote for MMP

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While it may not have been my first choice I want to state that I unequivocally support voting for MMP in the Ontario referendum. After the...

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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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