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.

2022-12-21

Left, Right or Centre – Explainer

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In today’s age of populism, with ideology apparently dead, how do you now if you are on the left or right or in the centre. There are indeed...
2022-12-01

The Benefits of Being a Nobody on Twitter (& free speech)

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Following 193 accounts and with 329 followers I am a relative nobody on Twitter. By controlling who I follow and who I block I can protect ...
2022-11-24

An Open Message to Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe

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The election is over and you can now free yourself from your election handlers. It is time to move your focus from getting elected to making...
2022-09-28

A Tale of Two Twitters

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It is the best of the Internet , it is the worst of the Internet , it is the purveyor of wisdom, it is the purveyor of disinformation, it i...
2022-08-31

Norco Scene VLT, The E-bike For People That Hate E-bikes

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Definitions first. How do I define e-bike. An electric motor assisted bicycle that can be pedalled easily without the assist turned on and t...
2022-06-30

Glen Cairn Pathway System Deterioration

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Bridlewood is not the only Kanata South community with crumblingmulti-use pathways (MUPs) that are deteriorating due to multiplefreeze-thaw ...
2022-06-21

The Freedumb Charter

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2022-06-14

SocialCoin – The Socially Responsible Alternative to Bitcoin

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  I am placing this concept in the public domain for anyone with the necessary technical skills to create the structures and necessary algor...
2022-05-25

Can Proportional Representation Save Our Parliamentary Democracy

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            Parliament - Etymology The English term is derived from Anglo-Norman and dates to the 14th century, coming from the 11th cen...
2022-05-19

The Bridlewood Small Hydro Line Pathway – The Crumbling Continues

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A year ago I wrote a blog post, Climate Change, The Pandemic and Multi-Use Pathways (MUPs) , in which I talked about the state of Ottawa’s M...
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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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