Author: Dan McTeague

Last week, I published my review of Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans with the title “Planet of the Humans: What Michael Moore got right.”  Despite the many great things that Moore and his director Jeff Gibbs got right, I cannot give an unequivocal endorsement to this documentary. So what are the problems with Michael … Continued

Michael Moore’s new documentary has nearly 5 million views on YouTube. The film has created an uproar in the environmental community with many groups asking for it to be taken off streaming platforms.  Why such an outrage from the environmentalist left? Could these demands for censorship have something to do with the film’s take-down of … Continued

It’s hard to do in the politically correct “green-is-god” world we live in today, but we should consider ourselves lucky to have affordable fossil fuels at our disposal as a weapon in the fight against COVID-19.  Oil and natural gas and other hydrocarbons not only help to deliver food to our grocery stores and Amazon … Continued

Last week Prime Minister Trudeau finally announced the aid package he is sending to the struggling oil sector.  It is not the aid that many hoped for. Indeed, rather than boosting the resource economy, the federal government seems to be spending your tax dollars to help “transition” this sector into oblivion, with all the spending … Continued

This week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that the global economy will shrink 3% during 2020, setting us up for the steepest downturn since the great depression in the 1930s. Canada’s economy is predicted to shrink 6.2% with a rebound of 4.2% in 2021 if the COVID-19 lockdown ends in the second half of 2020.  … Continued

It only took three weeks of COVD-19-induced isolation for former Environment Minister Catherine McKenna to decide that now is the time to finish off Canada’s crippled resource economy and create the brand-new clean-green economy of her dreams.  Now, as the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities,  McKenna tweeted that we have two choices in re-starting our … Continued

Welcome to carbon tax week! It’s that time of year again when our friendly federal government hikes up tax prices in the midst of a health crisis. As of Wednesday, prices in Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan have increased by $10 per tonne of CO2.  What does this look like for the consumer? In approximate … Continued

On Tuesday this week, Premier Doug Ford announced that for 45 days residential consumers, farmers and small business owners will be paying off-peak hydro prices 24 hours a day seven days a week. This means consumers will be paying a flat rate of 10.1 cents per kilowatt hour for their hydro, rather than the usual … Continued