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.
Summer jobs market retreats with rest of the labour force
The last month of the summer job season for returning students recorded more typical employment rates after a boom earlier in the summer, Statistics Canada said on Friday, while the overall job market softened and more people looked for work.
Frosh week, for real this time, as campus life returns
Students converged on the downtown campus of the University of Toronto this week for orientation activities that were missing from the last two years of pandemic-affected academic life.
Ontario education unions gear up for talks as classes return
As students and staff navigate a new school year with rising costs of living and without COVID-19 public health restrictions, Ontario education unions are back at the bargaining table to negotiate new deals with Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government.
Rainbow Railroad’s perilous path out for LGBTQ+ Afghans
The charity has helped resettle around 200 LGBTQ+ Afghans since the Taliban regained control of the country a year ago. It has vetted and verified another 300 people it says could relocate tomorrow if Canada committed to working with them.
Ontario’s elementary teachers ready for class as negotiations kick off
The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario is sitting down with the province’s education ministry and school board representatives to hash out a collective deal that ETFO’s Karen Brown hopes can address some of the inequities COVID-19 made worse.
Ontario’s COVID-19 science table to disband as schools reopen
Ontario’s COVID-19 science advisory group is being disbanded, it announced on Friday, one day after publishing a list of considerations for the province’s schools as students and staff prepare to return after summer break.
U of T chefs serve up new menu of plant-based dishes
Students living on two University of Toronto campuses will have more vegetarian and vegan options to choose from when school starts up again next month, thanks to a two-day, in-person training program from the Humane Society International Canada.
Greenpeace urges enviro minister to protect nature ahead of Montreal biodiversity summit
Greenpeace activists blocked the street outside Steven Guilbeault's constituency office Friday in downtown Montreal, where the federal environment minister — once a Greenpeace activist himself — will help host the UN's biodiversity summit later this year.
With his Lucid venture, Aaron Labbé is using music as medicine
The co-founder of Lucid was left wanting when he suffered a mental health crisis while studying music at university. Now he’s got a team building a digital therapeutic company around its healing properties.
In Ontario, where have all the workers gone?
Ontario is straining under labour shortages in health, early childhood education, long-term care, agriculture, construction, logistics and computing, among other sectors. Why are so many jobs in the province going unfilled?