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.
Toronto startup Flash Forest aims to regrow world’s forests with drones
The timber industry can quickly clear trees with little human involvement, but is not nearly as efficient at replanting. Flash Forest says it can do the job 10 times faster and at a fraction of the cost using drones and artificial intelligence.
This marine biologist is spotlighting people of colour in the climate movement
Marine biologist Anuradha Rao aims to show that environmental defenders can look like you or her with her new book, One Earth: People of Colour Protecting our Planet, which features activists of colour from all over the world.
Visual art students’ work lights up Yonge-Dundas Square
Visual art students at Ryerson University (known as X University among some people amid a formal review of its name) have taken over the giant screens of Yonge-Dundas Square this month for a late-night exhibition of their work.
Get vaccinated to live in dorms, Ryerson and U of T tell students
Students planning to live in residences at two of Toronto’s largest universities should get at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine before they move in for the 2021/22 school year.
This Toronto startup wants to fix gadget-making inefficiencies
Gowtham Ramachandran and Toronto startup company Trace are developing manufacturing technologies to make it faster, cheaper and more efficient for hardware teams to build electronics.
Tough time for indie music sector gives birth to cool new collaboration
The budding career of indie folk singer/songwriter Leith Ross took a detour the day after their first show as a featured performer when the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic halted touring and live shows.
Ontario unveils new Grade 9 math curriculum
Ontario’s education ministry released its updated Grade 9 math curriculum on Wednesday, adding in coding and financial literacy components and doing away with a split that sent a disproportionate number of racialized students away from academic paths.
Ryerson statue felled, head thrown in lake as university ponders next steps
The statue of Egerton Ryerson that stood outside the Toronto university bearing his name was pulled down and its head discarded in Lake Ontario on the weekend. A university task force says it still won’t rush a review of his legacy.
Summer job market for Canada’s students gets off to slow start
The latest monthly jobs data show younger workers again lagging behind the broader workforce in May as provinces tightened public health restrictions due to a resurgence of COVID-19 cases.
Climate change book project raises marginalized voices
The 20 contributors to "Our Climate, Our Stories" speak of loss and hope as young Black and Indigenous people and other people of colour dealing with the climate emergency.