Morgan Sharp
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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.
Climate crisis fuels push to drop voting age to 16
With the start of the new parliamentary session in Ottawa comes a renewed effort to get the country’s voting age lowered to 16. Why does that matter and what would that mean for politics and the political balance?
Toronto high schoolers plan to keep caring beyond COVID
The Toronto high school students who started Impact Without Contact wanted to help others during the pandemic while staying safe themselves, and their successors want to extend that motivation into the in-real-life era to come.
Ontario wants young people to step up for the trades
The Ontario government is trying to get more high school students and other young people interested in skilled trade jobs as projections suggest a labour shortage is only going to worsen in coming years.
Ikky Singh’s big Punjabi Toronto dream
Ikwinder Singh, a 21-year-old Toronto-based Punjabi music producer known as Ikky, is leading an imprint of Warner Music called 4N Records he hopes can build a bridge between the music in its homeland and the wider world via a hub in Toronto.
U of T students win some of Elon Musk’s carbon capture cash
A team of students at the University of Toronto are among the 23 groups sharing a US$5-million prize for developing carbon removal technology, part of an ongoing $100-million prize funded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
TDSB lets some unvaccinated staff stay amid staffing shortage
The Toronto District School Board will grant temporary exemptions to almost half of the 620 staff members who have not gotten a COVID-19 vaccination, citing the difficulty of replacing them.
Health Canada approves first COVID-19 vaccine for children
The federal health agency approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for those aged five to 11 on Friday, making it the first jab available for elementary school students in the country.
Ford government says schools will get COVID tests after all
COVID-19 rapid testing will be offered to school students in Ontario as they head out for winter break this year, the provincial government said on Thursday, while high schoolers can get back to four-subject semesters starting in February.
Moderna seeks Health Canada OK for kids’ COVID-19 vaccine
Health Canada can add a request from Moderna to Pfizer’s pending offer to vaccinate five- to 11-year-olds, as parents and youngsters in Canada already wait weeks longer than children in the United States for first COVID-19 jabs.
NoTimeToWait to break HIV stigma, students say
When Pedro was diagnosed with HIV, it spurred him to leave a job he’d grown to hate and come to Canada. But he couldn’t tell his mother, and so he can’t use his real name now as he speaks out against the stigma of a diagnosis ahead of a Toronto youth-led HIV conference.