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.
A group of medical students join thousands of other climate strikers on the streets of Glasgow
The young medical students standing atop a statue plinth in Glasgow’s George Square last Friday want med schools to teach about planetary health. Nearby, 50 countries this week pledged to develop climate-resilient and low-carbon health systems.
Glasgow climate strike snubs COP26 youth day, seeks radical shift
Thousands of people joined the youth-led climate strike movement in a march through Glasgow on Friday, denouncing the false solutions offered by world leaders in the nearby COP26 venue.
Listen up, politicians: Global survey spells out what climate moves matter to youth
Student Energy’s Global Youth Energy Outlook got more than 40,000 young people from 129 countries to share their views on the transition to clean energy. The vast majority want it to happen much faster than their governments and industry are currently moving.
Inuit youth claim space to seek climate resiliency in the Arctic
Inuit young people have a tough path to traverse as they seek an active and meaningful role in the building of climate resilience in the far north of the planet, where actions taken elsewhere are having a profound impact on both geography and cultural life.
Youth activists ask media to tell more of the climate story
Young climate activists want the media to do a better job explaining the causes and consequences of climate change to students, and to listen to them even when they are not skipping school to demand climate action.
It’s about us, say young delegates, so include us in the decision-making
The young people involved in the UN’s official youth constituency group have published a list of policy demands months in the making and are trying to get in the ear of as many world leaders as possible at COP26.
Climate activists target banks funding oil and gas in global day of action
The global climate justice movement focused its protest energy directly on big banks who bankroll new and expanded fossil fuel projects on Friday, with Royal Bank of Canada marked as enemy No. 1 in actions across Canada.
Ignite Fair for high school volunteers expands and goes interactive
The fair to help high school students in and around Toronto connect with volunteer opportunities expanded in its second virtual iteration to offer an interactive experience to three times as many youth as its real-life events and across a wider geographical area.
Ontario doesn’t require vaccines in schools. But science advisers, school board are pushing for shots
The deadlines the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) announced in an email Wednesday were a delay on its original plan, while Premier Doug Ford remains committed to making such inoculations voluntary — for education staff and students.
U of Toronto to divest its endowment of fossil fuels
The University of Toronto will get rid of its direct fossil fuel investments within a year and indirect ones by no later than 2030 and direct 10 per cent of its $4-billion fund to sustainable investments, a major win for climate activists.