Author: Constant Vigilance

!Posts from this blog appear on Progressive Bloggers under protest for as long as they continue to host The Underminer.  Providing a podium for someone working to elect the Conservatives is hardly progressive! My previous post discussed David Climenhaga’s observation of how Conservatives are channeling Republican tactics.  If there was any

!If this post appears on Progressive Bloggers it is under protest for as long as the Underminer remains on the blog roll! I couldn’t quite put my finger on the weirdness of Senator Batters Bozo eruption last week.  But David Climenhaga puts all 8 fingers, two thumbs and ten toes

!For as long as the Underminer remains on Progressive Bloggers, posts on that site appear under protest! A few thoughts on  Scheer’s* floppiest of flips in that a Con government would need 5 years to balance the budget rather than his earlier commitment to a two year hack and slash.

!if this appears on Progressive Bloggers it is under protest! With the upcoming demise of the BlackBerry 10 operating system, I finally bit the bullet and switched to an Android phone.  OMG I miss my Passport.

Even John Ibbitson admits the government,s hands are clean in the Norman case. All it took was for one of Harper, Kennedy, O’ Toole or MacKay to make a phone call and this would all have been over before it started. Instead these “honourable“ men didn’t make the call.  This

I was on vacation for a week and hadn’t posted since my request to be removed from ProgBlogs.  Now that I am back I published a new post this morning and noticed that it popped up on ProgBlogs. I expect this may seem like prevarication on my part. I remain

In the Spirit of Late Night with David Letterman, the Top 10 reasons to see the Liberals re-elected. 10. A government guided by progressive principles can continue its work.  As imperfect as it may be, it is the best option we have.9. The “But her emails” north non-scandal will be

I first discovered Progressive Bloggers during visits to Daily Kos during George W Bush’s first term.  I noticed these interesting comments with a tag line referencing Prog Blogs as a progressive Canadian viewpoint.  So I went there.  It was invigorating.  Impolitical and The Galloping Beaver were early favourites.  I started

During the recent campaign our Premier-Elect made all sorts of ridiculous promises to the gullible.  He is the one who will get the pipelines built.  He will bring back jobs that are gone forever.  He will eliminate the deficit (by increasing it first).  All of these are impossible for a

So the people of Alberta have exorcised their anger by electing a government led by a homophobic, white nationalist, probably corrupt BS artist who has spent years stoking their anger.  I feel for their anger.  Not all of it is misplaced.  A lot of this was beyond the control of

I read in the comments on Willy’s post and mine from yesterday that others besides the Underminer should be delisted from Progressive Bloggers because what are seen as opinions that are over the top.  Particularly if they are critical of the government. I want to be clear.  While I often

Willy asks: Why is The Underminer still on Progressive Bloggers.  (I have decided to post on this blog to add additional points.  Please read his post as well.).  Scott Tribe replies that ProgBlogs is not a Liberal aggregator and has full intentions of sticking to its eponymous mission.  All very

So quoth the current headline on National Newswatch. She rejects criticism because St. Jody is above criticism.  She is perfect and everything is someone else’s fault.  Narcissist much? Meanwhile on Progressive Bloggers, the Conservative Party’s mole (how about we call this person the Underminer?) has a post up gushing over

Many a mediocre Sci-Fi plot involves a monster that feeds off negative emotions.  If only the poor humans could resist the temptation to look in go down those stairs.  To open that book they were warned not to read.  To look in that closet (scarier yet, you might find Harper

You are faced with a real problem.  You have elected a dorky overly-religious leader prone to associating with white supremacists.  A disaffected leadership candidate has formed a splinter party.  The governing party has a popular leader that most people like to be associated with.  And their policies are generally popular. 

This Political Potshots post nicely captures some obvious concerns about the ethics of the “Noble One”‘ taping her phone conversation with Michael Wernick.  As does this one by Excited Delirium. To have recorded the call was egregiously unethical.  Did she initiate the phone conversation that she inappropriately and unethically record? 

So JWR has shown herself to be an unethical as well as an incompetent MoJaAG.  I expect JWR/JP, their co-conspirators and useful idiots in the Opposition parties, media and political consulting firms are enjoying the blowback against the government. But their joy will be short lived.  Cunning though those involved

Perhaps it can be traced back to the whole non-egalitarian “Woman born pf noble people” hogwash.  It could be the whole SNC-Lavalin canard Jody Wilson-Raybould (JWR) instigated.  Regardless of the source of the leak, her unprecedented recommendations for a new Chief Justice for the SCC seemed very much at odds

Three leading pundits agree.  This isn’t a scandal based on a principled stand in defence of the rule of law.  The SNC-Lavalin “Scandal” is just an attempted palace coup.  To channel Yoda, Trudeau will will tamp this fire out or he will not.  There is no try.  A key rule

So far the JWR scandal is about “She said, He said”.  Except there are two Hes saying she is misconstruing events.  Wait, is there a third person providing evidence that JWR is not being entirely straightforward? Why, in 4 hours of testimony did JWR not mention this request from the