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.
Report urges researchers to study cannabis and mental health in Black communities
A long history of targeted drug law enforcement has left some in Canada’s Black communities wary of cannabis despite it now being legal, and it's a slow process to undo that trauma-informed stigma.
Public art returns to Toronto with ArtworxTO 2.0
Since Toronto’s mayor last opened the city’s proclaimed Year of Public Art, the public sphere has largely been off-limits, a mix of COVID-19 precautions and icy weather reducing communal contact.
‘The situation is brutal’: Toronto grad describes life in Ukraine during Russian invasion
Oleksiy Sorokin was studying political science and history in Toronto when his Ukrainian homeland was last on the world stage back in 2014. The 26-year-old now finds himself reporting from Kyiv as Russian forces attack the capital and the country.
Eladia Smoke builds Indigenous principles into Centennial College’s mass-timber expansion
Indigenous architect Eladia Smoke explains the Native principles and climate benefits underpinning Centennial College’s mass-timber building, which is currently under construction.
Black educators work to fill in classroom narratives
The Toronto educators behind the See Us Learn Us seminars are helping teachers and school administrators across Canada work out how to include more of the Black Canadian experience in their curricula.
Toronto transit mechanic adapts to a greening world
Alex Cedrone helps keep the Toronto Transit Corporation’s growing fleet of hybrid and fully electric buses on the road. A graduate of a technical college’s truck and bus program, Cedrone is a case study of the shift in schooling and the workforce towards sustainability.
Youth lead effort to increase vaccine uptake in Indigenous communities
The My Vaxx Journey project invites young Indigenous people across the country to share their stories of facing fears related to getting the vaccinations.
Ontario’s Ford government unveils its election year education budget
Ontario will require its school boards to keep an online learning option for the upcoming 2022-23 academic year and any student who needs tutoring help will receive it, the provincial government said as it laid out its school spending plan ahead of a summer election.
Toronto business ethics winners eye national competition
The winners of a Toronto business and finance ethics competition will have to think faster about conflict-of-interest dilemmas and other challenges when they move on to a national version in May.
Toronto tech zone launches free online tool for entrepreneurs
The downtown university’s business incubator launches a free online version of its Launchpad curriculum to expand its reach to entrepreneurs unable or not yet ready to access in-person startup coaching.