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.
Ethics Bowl winners show what's missing in civil discourse
Jessica Strachan changed her mind halfway through responding to a judge’s question in the final case, but her underdog team from Humberside Collegiate Institute still won the argument and the national championship at last month’s virtual Ethics Bowl.
Waterloo opens up COVID vaccination bookings to 12 and older
Waterloo started taking COVID-19 vaccine bookings for children as young as 12 on Tuesday as Ontario’s provincial government shifts focus from big-city hot-spot neighbourhoods where adolescents who are not also essential workers have been left out until at least July.
Pride flag fights put Catholic school funding in focus
Catholic school boards across Ontario are wrestling with the question of whether and how to celebrate 2SLGBTQ+ pride within a religion that still sees gay people as suffering their identity, making some critics again question their public funding.
From a tower of trash bags to virtual motivation
Sam Demma was going to be a soccer star, until serious injuries ended that dream. He has since gone from creating a trash cleanup movement in Pickering to giving virtual motivational keynotes and running workshops on how to create positive change.
Young workers hit by off-again job market in April
Young Canadian workers lost jobs in double the numbers of the core 25 to 54 age group in April, employment data shows, as third-wave restrictions in Ontario and British Columbia turned back expansion in retail and hospitality work from earlier in the year.
A teen’s journey from Syria to role model
Valentina Shamoun found community at the local Boys and Girls Club (recently renamed BGC Canada) soon after leaving Syria at the start of that country’s civil war and has been involved ever since. Last month, she was named the Canadian chapter’s youth of the year.
A look at the unhealthy toll COVID-19 has taken on mothers
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the mothers of young children especially hard, research conducted for the Mental Health Commission of Canada shows, as they often seek to balance paid and unpaid work from home.
Ontario school boards must offer virtual classes in 2021-22
Ontario’s Education Ministry outlined its financial and operational plans for the 2021-22 school year on Tuesday, telling school boards that pandemic-related funding for the second half of the year is not yet confirmed while requiring them to offer virtual classes for the whole year.
How to talk to young people about suicide
Children who know someone who has died by suicide need to know their feelings about it are valid and that they will get honest answers to their questions, the Mental Health Commission of Canada says in new guide on the sensitive subject.
Toronto tenants seek leverage on COVID relief with rent strike
Tenants in Toronto, where market rental rates steadily outpace the increases landlords can legally impose on them, are facing the dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic in a system that encourages landlords to move them on. Some are fighting back.