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.

2007-09-28

The Two Faces Of MMP

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In our present FPTP system voters theoretically vote for local candidates. Indeed, that is one of the main arguments of the FPTP proponents....
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2007-09-27

They've Gone Too Far Now - "Animal Activists"

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It was one thing when so-called animal rights activists paraded around only in panties and fake leather boots to protest the fur industry. ...
2007-09-26

No Time to Blog Today - Busy Mountain Biking

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Well today I just seemed to be way too busy with mountain biking stuff to blog. This morning I had to pick up my wife's bike from Joe Ma...
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...
2007-09-24

"First Past the Post" - Who Dreamed This Up

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I am referring, of course, not to the concept but to the term, which Wiktionary defines as "voting system where the candidate with the...
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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...
2007-09-20

Public Education and Public Health - The HPV Vaccine

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I was all set to go on a tirade against the Catholic school system for attempting to thwart local health units HPV vaccine programs . Howeve...
2007-09-19

On Blogging

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It seems like I have always wanted to have a blog even before there were blogs. When I attended Laurentian University I was active on the ...
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2007-09-18

Why I Am Not Voting NDP This Election

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Since I started voting in 1968 there have only been two previous times I did not vote for the NDP. Once was as a protest vote after the Waff...
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2007-09-17

Listen Up - Stephen Lewis on Climate Change

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I happened to luck out Saturday and catch this lecture by Stephen Lewis at McMaster University on TVO's Big Ideas . Lewis was as compell...
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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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