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.

2008-05-08

The Democratic Party Dream Ticket That Could Have Been

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Very early in the United States presidential election primary process it became very obvious that there were two clear Democratic Party fron...
2008-05-07

Saving the World With Cheap LSD

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“LSD acted as a unifying force, an equal opportunity enlightener. It was a bargain at $5 a hit in the 1970s; still is.” According to an op e...
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2008-05-06

Banned In China Ottawa

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Apparently, if you belong to a persecuted group you are assumed to be protesting, so you are not allowed to participate in Ottawa’s Canadia...
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2008-05-05

Tour Nortel 2008 - Hardest Tour Nortel Yet

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Every year I participate in the Tour Nortel as part of a team of mountain bikers raising funds for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontar...
2008-05-02

Rabble

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Unfortunately I did not have time to blog today so I will point you to a web site worth checking out .
2008-05-01

Happy International Workers Day

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Happy May Day
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2008-04-30

Mountain Biking In The Spring

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Rutted Muddy Trail from Spring Biking For those of us that put our bikes away for the winter, when the first sign of Spring arrives we want ...
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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2008-04-28

Solidarity Forever

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2008-04-26

TTC Strike - Special Weekend Fifth Column

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So what is going on here . The first factor to consider is why did the membership reject the tentative agreement, proving yet again, that de...
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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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