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.
Harassment rife in Canada's higher education, study finds
The rates at which teaching staff and researchers experience harassment on Canada’s university and college campuses are significantly higher than in most other workplaces, a major study released on Friday shows.
What needs to happen before Ontario students return to class?
For Ontario’s schools to reopen in September without producing a spike in COVID-19 cases may require sustained mask-wearing, especially among younger students, medical experts say, while high schools should know how many of their students are vaccinated.
Lecce removes anti-racist language from Ontario’s new math curriculum
Ontario’s education minister has removed language addressing anti-racist and anti-colonialist principles in the preamble to the province’s new Grade 9 math curriculum just a month after unveiling it.
From selling Blue Jays merch to getting small businesses online
The pandemic upended Emira Refai-Gray’s efforts to upgrade her educational credentials, but the 21-year-old has since moved on from retail work to helping small businesses get online, and will soon be starting a science degree to keep workplaces safe.
Young Vietnamese Canadians open conversation floodgates with elders
The Vietnamese Canadian youth starting a conversation with their elders later this month want to face taboo topics, including patriarchy and queer sexuality, that often get lost in translation.
Jobs in June: Youth boost is biggest since last summer
The number of net new jobs young people filled in June was the highest it has been since last summer, before second and third waves of COVID-19 infections nixed much of the service work they did.
With restaurants on long-term hiatus, some workers move on
The mostly young workers of Toronto’s hospitality industry have been forced to shift into other lines of employment as COVID-19 restrictions drag on. For Marco Chumacero, that has meant retraining to sell and manage point-of-sale products for a software company.
Quarantine led these teens to invent new tech that translates signing into spoken words
Two friends interested in coding and helping others have built a prototype device to turn the basics of American Sign Language into speech. It cost $40 (and took thousands of hours) to build, and with science fair winnings, they plan to tweak it and make more.
What happened when Frank Liu and Andrew Cheng took their Ontario high school business curriculum into their own hands
Ontario’s high school curriculum for business left them unsatisfied, so Frank Liu and Andrew Cheng created a competition to help other students gain experience in the field.
Toronto startup turning food waste into planet-friendly fabric
The young CEO of ALT TEX has a modest goal. Myra Arshad just wants to dismantle the $104-billion global polyester industry, one of the primary climate villains of fast fashion. She and her co-founder are aiming to do that by turning food waste into textiles for clothing.