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.

2023-09-25

What If We Had A Different Non-Political Form of Representative Government

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I have been thinking about what a non-political from of representative government might look like and whether it could be considered democr...
2023-08-29

Fernbank Road Pond Photo Versions

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Slideshow of photos taken along the Fernbank Road Pond in Stittsville in July 2023 with my Panasonic Lumix FZ100 camera and edited with Ph...
2023-08-19

Imagining A Post Capitalist World

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This is not meant to be a comprehensive analysis but an imagining of some of the features of a post capitalist world. OK lets get this o...
2023-07-24

The stages of corporate social media

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Corporate social media essentially goes through three stages. The first is new, free and wonderful, lots of functionality, user friend...
2023-07-16

What Are Family Values Anyway

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So what are these family values the right is always going on about. I am not talking about specific religious or cultural values but the va...
2023-07-10

Should We Bring Back The Lord’s Day Act

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No I am not going all religious on you This would be more of a Day for Humanity, a day that would not belong to the billionaires and million...
2023-06-13

The Thing About Religious Fundamentalists

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The thing About religious fundamentalists is that they expect you to base your life and your belief system and morality on religious texts w...
2023-05-22

How Did We Get Here

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Let me tell you a story about my early days working for the House of Commons in a non-partisan position serving all Members of Parliament a...
2023-04-29

Annual Report on Kanata South Pathways Deterioration, Spring 2023

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Another year has gone by and it is time to report again on the deterioration of the Bridlewood and Glen Cairn pathways in Kanata. Bridlewood...
2023-04-14

More Fun With Photo Editing

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I imagine most people have a favourite photo editor that they use for all their photo editing. Sometimes I like to mix it up and use differe...
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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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