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.

2012-01-31

Help Save the South March Highlands by Voting it One of Canada's Great Places

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The Fifth Column has written many times about the most biodiverse natural area in Ottawa adjacent to urban Kanata and threatened by urban s...
2012-01-30

A Non-Satirical Look at Ottawa's PIN Messaging "Scandal"

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Is Ottawa's PIN scandal really a tempest in a teapot . You cannot legislate or regulate integrity. The only thing that can ensure som...
2012-01-29

City Plan to Develop Municipal Mind Monitoring Software Expected to Jump Start Local High Tech Industry

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In a move described by some observers as onionesque, the City's Policies and Procedures Committee is recommending the city issue an RFP ...
2012-01-26

NCC "Grand" "Massive" Greenbelt Expansion More Wish List Than To Do List

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According to the Ottawa Citizen : OTTAWA — The National Capital Commission brought forward a massive expansion Wednesday of the Greenbelt t...
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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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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