Matthew Halliday

2 weeks ago | macleans.ca | Matthew Halliday

Last summer, Pierre Poilievre delivered a speech to the Assembly of First Nations blasting what he called the Liberals’ “performative reconciliation.” In other words, talking a big game but accomplishing little. His government, he said, would make tangible differences in Indigenous people’s lives—mostly by getting them access to cold, hard cash from resource-extraction projects.

2 weeks ago | macleans.ca | Matthew Halliday

Canada’s not for sale. Maclean’s is. Subscribe todayIn January, Jordan Peterson uploaded a 100-minute interview with Pierre Poilievre to his YouTube channel. During their long, digressive conversation, the Conservative leader accused Justin Trudeau of being an authoritarian, said “wokeism” was responsible for hate crimes and railed against rampant immigration. Standard Peterson fare, in other words. Plenty of Canadians find Peterson’s entire persona to be toxic. But that doesn’t matter.

Jun 11, 2024 | universityaffairs.ca | Matthew Halliday

Microcredentials have been one of the most buzzed about topics in higher education over the past several years. Quickly developed, ultra-short courses of study imparting a very specific skill or knowledge niche, microcredentials have rapidly proliferated far and wide. But there remains plenty of debate about whether they represent a radical new approach to higher education or are merely the latest pedagogical fad.

Jan 18, 2024 | cottagelife.com | Matthew Halliday

One morning late last spring, my three-year-old-son and I left our home in Halifax, bound for the family cottage on New Brunswick’s Northumberland Shore. Before we left town, however, I had to make good on a promise I’d made to him: new beach toys. His old set of plastic buckets and shovels was broken, so before leaving the city, we dropped by a dollar store for replacements. We weren’t disappointed.

Sep 13, 2023 | campaignbrief.co.nz | Matthew Halliday |Ricki Green

Labelled Ad Net Zero, it’s part of an international framework launched in the UK late in 2020. “Our ambition,” it states, “is to reduce the carbon impact of developing, producing and running advertising.”To support the industry reducing its own emissions, Ad Net Zero is built around a five-point “action plan”, the first four points of which are to reduce emissions in different areas of the business.