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.

2012-01-25

The Ultimate Solution to Electoral Reform in Canada

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Yes indeed, I do have the ultimate solutions to all of our electoral system problems and I will share them with all of you. Now some of you ...
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2012-01-12

We Must Stop Stephen Harper and the 20% from Destroying Canada

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There has been lots of discussion about how Stephen Harper's majority only represents 40% of voters because of the way our electoral sys...
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2012-01-02

Sometimes I Really Wonder

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I think we all have friends, relatives or acquaintances that are caught up in Islamophobia and regularly send out e-mails warning that the M...
2011-12-31

New Years Resolution

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Well, if it isn't obvious what it should be, my resolution is to actually write and post all those blog post ideas that come to me almos...
2011-12-19

White Christmas in the South March Highlands

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At Least a White Pre-Christmas Video by Ray Vermette (Ottawa Mountain Bike Association) Source: OMBA - White Mountain Bike Christmas
2011-12-17

A Christmas Message From Your Conservative MP

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2011-12-13

Cyclist Fatality Waiting/Designed to Happen

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If you wanted to design a storm sewer grate to catch a bicycle wheel and throw the rider into fast heavy traffic you could not do better tha...
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2011-12-12

The Stages of Human Communication Technology

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Language (pre-history) Written Language (circa 3200 BC) The Printing Press (circa 1440 ) (Johannes Gutenberg) Telephone (1861/1875)...
2011-12-07

Saving the South March Highlands: Looking to the Future

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The first thing I want to say is that any discussion of saving the South March Highlands has to start by acknowledging that, indeed, some of...
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2011-12-06

Economics 101: The Reality of Canadian Capitalism

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In More Academic Terms
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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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