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.
Navigating disability, identity and a city still struggling to make itself accessible
The contributors to this month’s Myseum of Toronto exhibit Making Space: Stories of Disabled Youth provide maps for navigating both a city still struggling to make itself accessible and their own nuanced approaches to identity.
Young activists want no excuses on climate action in federal budget
Young activists from across Canada want specific climate conditions attached to pandemic recovery funds in the next federal budget and no more new fossil fuel infrastructure, they told federal Green Party Leader Annamie Paul on Friday.
Urban Retrofit aims to ease the path to GTA energy efficiency
Recent civil engineering graduate Rahemeen Ahmed and the rest of the team at Urban Retrofit have built and intend to expand an online resource for residents in the Greater Toronto Area interested in making their homes more energy efficient.
Young Muslims host green conference, plan curriculum
A group of Muslim students pushing their community to keep the environment top of mind when practising their religion will host Canada’s first Muslim-led green conference this weekend.
This teen is on a mission to teach coding to kids and make tech more inclusive
Mississauga student Arya Peruma, 15, is offering to help teachers and other educators make coding fun for younger students with a free three-part workshop series, part of her bid to make tech more accessible and inclusive.
Youth are planting seeds for food security in Durham
The young leaders of Youth Roots Durham want to educate youth and other local residents and help them find ways to produce, store and transport food sustainably.
Advocate hopes to get Black people talking about mental health
Marie Remy only found out her sister had sought help for anxiety and depression after she died, a fact driving her push to get Black people to talk to each other more about mental health.
Students grabbing shoes for Pickering wetlands protest
Hundreds of shoes will be placed outside Pickering city hall this week, a message from some of those who but for COVID-19 restrictions would be there demanding municipal and provincial politicians call off their push to pave over rare urban wetlands on Toronto’s outskirts.
Toronto queer youth find comfort in Studio community
The mostly LGBTQ+-identified young people checking in to The Studio’s virtual programming are finding comfort in community that in some cases would have been out of reach pre-pandemic, when the drop-in youth wellness hub was in-person only.
Disillusioned, but tempted by another political fight
Riley Yesno is a leading voice of the first post-residential school generation, and the young Anishinaabe activist says many of her peers are moving beyond broken promises about reconciliation.