Morgan Sharp
Reporter | Toronto |
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About Morgan Sharp
Morgan Sharp is a non-binary trans journalist who wrote about youth and young people in and around Toronto, thanks to a grant from the Local Journalism Initiative and the Government of Canada.
She covered a wide range of subject areas over more than three years with National Observer and ten years with the Reuters news agency before that, including general and political news, the environment and sustainability, technology and the companies that sell it, financial markets and economics.
Originally from Melbourne, Australia, they lived and worked in Cairo and London before settling in Toronto.
An ocean away, Canadian teens are helping their Ukrainian peers stay on top of their studies amid war
The students behind HomeworkHub put out a call for their volunteer tutors to help Ukrainian schoolchildren. Dozens have answered the call and more are needed to deal with the demand, its founder says.
Fighting for food justice out of Toronto’s Jane and Finch
Rosie Mensah is a young nutritionist and business owner in the Jane and Finch area of Toronto who has created a training course for other food health professionals to help people of diverse experiences access food justice.
League for Green Leaders challenges Toronto students on climate
The League for Green Leaders aims to foster climate awareness among elementary school students with an online competition to grow their appreciation for the natural world and reduce their carbon footprint.
Ontario colleges avoid strike as labour dispute heads to arbitration
Students at colleges across Ontario attended classes as usual on Friday after a looming strike by professors and other faculty was averted by a move to binding arbitration.
Future Majority aims to amplify youth voices in Ontario vote
The youth advocacy group is gearing up to engage young Ontario voters on the issues that matter to them and hopefully get politicians to pay attention in the run-up to a summer provincial election.
Reopenings spur entry-level jobs rebound in February
A broad rebound in the job market scooped up young workers across Canada in February as provinces lifting COVID-19 restrictions meant more employment in reopened bars, restaurants, gyms and other indoor places.
Toronto school board goes along with Ontario mask rule loosening, asks for time
The Toronto District School Board, Canada’s largest, will go along with the Ford government’s plan to make wearing a mask a personal choice in Ontario schools, but asked to delay dropping the COVID-19 classroom safety measure on return from March break.
Just a day in the lab seeking COVID in sewage
Recent graduates in microbiology and other disciplines are helping Toronto keep track of trends in COVID-19 infections by running daily lab tests on sewage samples from across the city.
Meet the sewage sleuths tracking Toronto’s COVID-19 levels
Students and researchers at two Toronto universities are collecting and testing samples of the city's wastewater for COVID-19, creating insight the city has started making public since individual testing was largely discarded.
Ontario revises science curriculum, destreams Grade 9
The Ontario government is combining applied and advanced science classes in Grade 9 and introducing a revised science curriculum across elementary grades that emphasizes hands-on learning, the engineering design process, coding and other emerging technology.