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.
Brampton youth protest to educate about India farm laws
A group of young people in Brampton and northeast Mississauga are leading an effort to support farmers in India and oppose new laws in that country, which they say threaten their livelihood.
Toronto joins neighbouring COVID-19 hot spot in ordering schools closed
Public health authorities in Toronto have ordered the city's schools closed a day after the neighbouring Peel Region did so and as the provincial government prevaricates.
Schools move online-only in Peel as variant COVID-19 cases spike
Peel Region’s schools will not reopen until at least April 18 as local public health authorities react to a sharp spike in COVID-19 cases.
Future Ancestors teaching social justice, anti-racism to all
The young Black and Indigenous directors and alchemists of Future Ancestors are helping schools, companies and organizations do the work of grappling with systemic racism and pushing for racial and social justice, including on climate change.
On international day of visibility, trans patients still hidden in Ontario health data
Trans patients are more likely to live in low-income neighbourhoods and suffer chronic physical and mental health problems. Ontario’s health-care system doesn’t see them, but the health minister says the province is looking into it.
Ford ignoring post-secondary in COVID recovery budget: NDP
The 2021 budget Doug Ford’s government unveiled last week largely ignored post-secondary education, missing an opportunity to invest in “help and hope” for a just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the NDP’s critic for the sector said on Tuesday.
Surging COVID-19 cases put Ontario’s delayed school break on shaky ground
Premier Doug Ford declined to say if students would get their deferred March break amid spiking COVID-19 cases, while Education Minister Stephen Lecce said "delay not cancel" remains true until he hears otherwise from medical advisers.
Masks and online learning help Ontario schools with COVID-19
Elementary teachers in Ontario have filed fewer COVID-19 workplace insurance claims per capita than their counterparts in British Columbia. How big a role did masks on kids play in that?
No cash relief, but training credit, in budget for young Ontarians
The 2021 Ontario budget won’t boost the bank balances of young people a few years out of high school nor help them pay off their education debt, but will help cover some training costs for a new job.
Ontario budget includes larger third round of help for parents
Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government will spend almost $1 billion on a third round of direct aid to parents, this one double the size of previous payments.