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.

2009-02-27

House of Commons Online Voting Records – The Back Story

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I would like to thank The Enlightened Savage for drawing my attention to this article from Canwest News Service . Unfortunately there is so...
2009-02-26

A Lesson for PETA in Biology and Ethics

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PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), and others of their ilk, claim to be concerned about the ethical treatment of animals...
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2009-02-25

Migraine Hell and Other Thoughts

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The Fifth Columnist has just gone through migraine hell, spending two weeks with an almost continuous migraine. Thus blogging was sporadic o...
2009-02-18

If there was a god …

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these ads would not be allowed on OC Transpo buses... and these ads would. NOTE: the Gods of Rock ads have been withdrawn , no thanks to O...
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2009-02-12

Random Observations

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OC Transpo Screws Up Scheduling On First Days Back On the first Saturday and Sunday of post-strike service OC Transpo managers, the people w...
2009-02-11

The Right Wing on Child Soldiers and War Resisters

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The right wing believes that a fifteen year old child soldier (according to the United Nations definition) accused of killing an American so...
2009-02-10

The Economic Crisis Opportunity – The Short Term Response

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With the global environmental crisis comes a global economic opportunity. Just as the response to climate change involves solutions that we ...
2009-02-08

For Gmail Users - MailStore

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Special Sunday Fifth Column I do not usually post software reviews here, and this is not a full review, but something I stumbled upon. I lov...
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2009-02-06

Building A New Society From The Collapse of Capitalism

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This is the first of a series on the economic crisis opportunity. Karl Marx said “from each according to his ability, to each according to ...
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2009-02-03

Some Things Are More Important Than Humour

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Parliamentary Democracy Explained
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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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