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.

2024-02-23

The Election Issue That Dare Not Speak It's Name

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What election am I referring to – whatever one is next in whatever jurisdiction you are in. Yes I am talking about that which we dare no...
2024-02-19

What is Wrong With The Internet ?

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Yes, I know we could write a book, but essentially what is wrong with the Internet is the way we use it. The public changed has the w...
2024-02-15

Is There a Conspiracy to Break and Then Fix Health Care ?

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So how would this work. I suggest first you underfund public health care as well as simply not spending budgeted funds. As the public facili...
2024-01-03

AI Has Nothing To Do With Intelligence

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AI has nothing to do with intelligence but people believe the marketing hype, mostly because we have a distorted idea of what intelligence ...
2023-12-17

Is There Hope For Palestine

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 I wrote this in November 2007 on the hope for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The solution essentially comes down to u...
2023-12-04

Franzis Black and White Projects Professional 6 Photo Film Emulation Versions

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This is a demonstration of the film emulation capabilities of Franzis Black & White Projects. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the emu...
2023-12-02

Palestine – What If

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  Balfour Declaration (November 2nd, 1917) "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a nationa...
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2023-11-10

Remembrance Day and Righteous Wars

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When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s Remembrance Day was a very solemn occasion. There were still a lot of World War II veterans par...
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2023-11-05

All Photography is “Photoshopped”

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A pretty bold claim but what do I mean by it. Well I do not mean “photoshopped” in the sense of someone going through their photo collection...
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...
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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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