Matthew Halliday is a journalist and editor in Canada whose work focuses on environmental and scientific topics, urban affairs, and beyond. A former senior editor at Toronto’s The Grid magazine (RIP), he is more recently the co-founder and executive editor of Atlantic Canada’s The Deep. He’d love to hear from you.
In The Walrus
A provincial government’s closed-door investigation has confused experts, stoked fears, and missed an opportunity to solve a possible new brain disorder
In Hakai
As aquariums end captive-whale programs, advocates seek to build ocean-based retirement homes for the long-suffering animals—but finding the right host community is a feat.
In Rest of World
How a 3D-printing entrepreneur landed—briefly—in the top job at Ukraine’s corruption-addled State Space Agency.
In The Deep
With an incredible past and an unwritten future, places like Nunatsiavut might just help define the future of an incomplete country.
In The Guardian
The Senakw development aims to ease the city’s chronic housing crisis – and to challenge the mindset that Indigeneity and urbanity are incompatible.
In Undark
Scientists wishing to do research must now consult with Inuit groups — and consider long-neglected local priorities.
In Hakai
It’s one of the modern world’s biggest mysteries—99 percent of the plastics that enter the ocean are missing.
In The Walrus
You may use the blue bin, but it doesn’t mean you’re helping the environment.
In Hazlitt
My neighbourhood doesn’t look like a place where, a century ago, hundreds of people were incinerated. And that’s exactly the point of it.
