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.
Canada’s labour force report finds many young men gave up looking for work in March
The Canadian labour market added some 73,000 jobs and hit a record low unemployment rate in March, Statistics Canada said, while noting that fewer young men were either working or looking for work.
Budget 2022: From student debt relief to housing help, here’s what young Canadians are hoping to see
Affordability, housing, education, mental health support, climate change. Do youth have anything to hope for in the federal budget out Thursday? A polling expert, youth advocate and student union rep weigh in on what matters.
Greenpeace throws Scotiabank a climate action party
The shareholders who show up in person to such events got an early morning dose of dancefloor bass from Greenpeace climate protesters outside Scotiabank’s annual general meeting on Tuesday.
Youth target environment minister in fight against Bay du Nord
A small group of student climate activists challenged the federal environment minister to reject the proposed Bay du Nord offshore oil exploration project at an event in Montreal on Friday before joining a larger climate march.
‘Our work was about self-love from the start’
From an Instagram series celebrating the women in Sariena Luy’s life back in 2015 has sprung an artist collective and grassroots organizing and social enterprise empowering women, femmes and non-binary folks.
Youth-led project aims for a grown-up cannabis conversation with youth
A youth-led project backed by mental health groups offers an online curriculum for young people to explore links between cannabis and mental health and aims to provide engaging health promotion and harm reduction resources.
Rising star Eponine Lee talks theatre, music and always being ‘the youngest person in the room’
A 15-year-old from a Toronto theatre family who has already played Juliet in Shakespeare’s tragic love story at the Stratford Festival, Eponine Lee is forging an impressive creative career while balancing the demands of high school.
Arts award finalist relies on curiosity and generosity in her work with youth
Young people have less to unlearn than adults and much to contribute, says Erin Brubacher, a theatre director who collaborates often, including in her frequent work with teens, which the Toronto Arts Foundation recognized last week.
Toronto climate strikers keep plans low-key in wake of trucker convoy, COVID-19
The young climate activists behind Toronto’s action against fossil fuel financing kept their plans close to their chests this week, in part out of fears that their focus on the impact of climate chaos on marginalized people could be a target for those emboldened by the recent truck occupation.
Documenting the unseen work of building food sovereignty for Toronto’s Black community
The movement for Black food sovereignty in Toronto is “a blooming flower” that Hansel Igbavboa and others highlight in an upcoming documentary that also shows the mountain of unseen work behind it.