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.

2026-01-30

ICE is Not Law Enforcement

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So why, you ask, am I writing about what is probably the most obvious thing to all sane people. The answer is: to put a reasoned argument o...
2026-01-25

Why I am not Rejoining the New Democratic Party (NDP)

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I decided to put more thought into rejoining the party to be able to vote for the new federal leader after receiving an invitation to join ...
2026-01-09

Farewell to The Old Oak Tree

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Our Old Oak Tree (actually the city's tree) which we have had since we moved into our house in 1979, although it looked healthy, had eno...
2025-12-29

My Annual Desktop PC Wallpaper Slideshows 2021-2025

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For at least the last seven years I have been using my own photographs for my Desktop PC wallpaper, although the photos may not have been ta...
2025-12-16

Internet Search: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

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In the beginning (yesterday) the Internet was an academic network and then the Free-nets (including the National Capital FreeNet of which ...
2025-12-07

United States of Armageddon

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If American current events were a dystopian TV series we would all be saying this is over the top, no one can be this diabolically cruel an...
2025-12-02

European Multi Party PR & American Two Party FPTP Electoral Systems: Built on Coalitions

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The European electoral system is based on Proportional Representation (PR) with multiple parties while the American electoral system is base...
2025-11-27

Postscript AI

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When I finished writing my last blog post I started to wonder what it would look like if I had asked an LLM-based AI to write it. I have l...
2025-11-23

On Reforming Capitalism

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 These are the conventional definitions of capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means o...
2025-11-01

Much Ado About The Deep State, NOT

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This post is written from a Canadian perspective. Deep state is a term used for (real or imagined) potential, unauthorized and often s...
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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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