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.
Older folks get five times more Ontario election budget cash than younger voters, Gen Squeeze founder says
The election promises tied to the latest Ford government budget are worth five times as much to senior voters as those under 45 years old, according to the founder of Generation Squeeze.
Students overlooked again in Ontario budget as election looms
The affordability of life has shrunk most drastically for young people due to inflation and job precarity or loss, including the post-secondary students whom Ontario’s provincial budget pitches as a pipeline of job-ready graduates in its pre-election budget.
York University and IBM want students to tackle poverty in summer smart city challenge
York University is teaming up with IBM’s Good Tech Scholars program for the summer edition of its C4 (Cross-Campus Capstone Classroom) program to discover if smart city development can help lessen poverty.
Environment ministers help launch massive boreal protection project
The climate ministers of Canada and Ontario joined a fundraising call for the country’s biggest-ever private conservation purchase on Friday, as one heads into an election devoid of climate policy and the other has just approved a massive offshore oil and gas project.
Climate report card gives McMaster, B.C. schools top marks
A string of major Canadian universities committed in 2020 to consider climate change when managing their assets. The C.D. Howe Institute took a look at how they’ve done since.
Young women join celebration to amplify Italian immigrant women’s ‘le femmine forti’
Inspired by stories of her great-grandmother’s journey to Canada and early life here, Lorena McNamara teamed up with her mother to collect and retell those of almost two dozen of ‘le femmine forti’ — the strong Italian women who immigrated here after the Second World War.
The buried pipes that will help U of T turn carbon positive
The University of Toronto wants its new geoexchange system to serve multiple purposes: help its downtown campus eventually turn carbon positive, show city officials and others that a green retrofit is worthwhile, and give faculty and staff a learning lab.
Students at Centennial’s transport school shifting gears for fossil-free future
The colleges that train the young autoworkers who’ll witness the demise of the internal combustion engine are ready, but almost everyone else has to catch up.
TDSB asks students, staff to wear masks inside schools again
The Toronto District School Board asked all staff and students to return to wearing masks inside its schools on Wednesday as COVID-19’s sixth wave swells amid an absence of provincial public health rules.
Ontario NDP pitch wage boost for child-care staff
The Ontario NDP proposed a $20 an hour wage floor for child care on Tuesday as political parties looking to unseat Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government in a provincial election this summer focused on the gender pay gap.