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.

2020-06-29

Thoughts on the police

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This post does not claim to have all the answers, or any answers, nor to be a comprehensive, or any kind of analysis, but is simply some ...
2020-06-07

Why #DeleteFacebook

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Not because Mark Zuckerberg is a self-entitled white-privileged frat boy who based Facebook on an app he developed called Facemash t...
2020-05-01

Happy International Workers Day #MayDay

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Billy Bragg We've been experiencing what we refer to as 'Andy Warhol Weather' here today: fifteen minutes of rain...
2020-04-26

COVID-19 and Education in Ontario – An Imaginative Approach

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Let me start by saying that I understand that hindsight is a big advantage and some may ask why didn't I think of this sooner and my r...
2020-03-31

The Pensioner and the Pandemic and ...

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The Government Wants to Lock Me in My Room Well this blog post is taking somewhat of a change of direction from that planned, which was t...
2020-02-28

On Immigration

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Canada welcomed the highest number of new immigrants in more than a century last year, opening its doors to 341,180 people from 175 dif...
2020-02-13

On Being a “Boomer”

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Generations When I was growing up in the 1950s and onward there was not all this talk about generations that seems to have bec...
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2020-01-02

New Year Prediction – The New Veganism

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Perhaps not this year, but I can see it coming as clear as the lighting in a laboratory clean room. It started with vegetarianism, a...
2019-12-31

Happy New Year – We Are All Going to Die

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Yes, we are all going to die and that's it, the end. Except for the Christians, of course, they get to go to an afterlife of eithe...
2019-12-03

The War Against Holiday Diversity

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They call it the War on Christmas , but in reality it is just an opportunity for a few people to get apoplectic , or is it apocalyptic , abo...
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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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