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.

2007-12-19

Blogging Holiday

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The Fifth Column will be taking a vacation over the holidays. Blogging will resume early in the New Year.
2007-12-18

Guns and Tasers - Then and Now

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Then Guns don't kill people. People kill people. Now Tasers don't kill people. People die after being tasered.
2007-12-17

Tragedy and Assumptions

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Although very few details about the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Aqsa Parvez are known it has not prevented many bloggers ...
2007-12-14

The Role of the Ethics Committee in the Mulroney-Schreiber Affair

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Some people, including Conservative Members on the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics , argue that the Committe...
2007-12-13

Just Say “No”

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House of Commons Debates VOLUME 142 NUMBER 036 2nd SESSION 39th PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Wednesday, December 12, 2007 [E...
2007-12-12

Don’t Fuck Around With Nuclear Safety

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Sometimes an “expletive” is required and this is one of those times. A Three-Mile-Island-type of nuclear accident could occur at Canada'...
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2007-12-11

Is it Going to Be Deja Vue All Over Again

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As Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien clings to power after Criminal Code charges were laid against him I have a strange feeling that when the ver...
2007-12-10

What Would Larry Do

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Does anyone have any doubt what Larry O'Brien would do if a senior official in his private sector company or a senior city staff member ...
2007-12-07

It's Our Web

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2007-12-06

The Big Lie About Music Sharing - The Future of Music

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We all know the big lie about the impact of free music sharing - that it will kill the music - that no one will make music because they will...
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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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