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.
Ontario school strike back on the table as focus turns to service levels
Ontario's education workers have issued a second strike notice, saying contract talks are stalled over the Ford government’s unwillingness to invest more in services for students.
Ford government repeals anti-strike law, updates budget as CUPE talks remain far apart
It was a busy day at Queen’s Park on Monday, with education workers getting back their right to strike and Ontario’s government projecting a budget deficit that critics warn could be used to avoid paying them and other public sector workers a living wage.
Who won and lost — and what now — in Ontario labour snafu?
The Ford government tried to legislate away Ontario workers’ bargaining rights last week. Instead, it likely needs to sweeten the deal it’s proposing to emboldened education workers.
A timeline of Ontario’s labour troubles in schools
In the space of nine days, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government drew up, imposed and promised to withdraw a law that invoked the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ notwithstanding clause to block any opposition to its enforced four-year pay offer to Canadian Union of Public Employees members.
School’s back, as Ford backtracks on anti-strike law
“We won. They backed down,” Sharron Flynn-Bennett, a union organizer and special education worker in the Toronto Catholic District School Board, said outside Queen’s Park on Monday.
‘Bring it on’: Ontario education workers set to strike Friday in defiance of back-to-work law
To howls from opposition critics and growing outcry from those sympathetic to the education workers’ plight, the Ford government got its anti-strike law on the books ahead of a (now illegal) picket by tens of thousands of CUPE staff that will close many of the province’s schools starting Friday.
Youth-led effort to list ecocide as international crime gets MPs’ backing
The youth-led effort to list ecocide as an international crime won the backing of federal politicians from three different parties on Tuesday, with the Greens, NDP and an MP from the governing Liberals speaking up against the destruction of the natural environment.
Ontario seeks to ban education workers from striking. Employees say they’ll do it anyway
The Ontario government ordered the province’s lowest-paid education workers back to work Monday, setting up a legislative and operational standoff ahead of a planned Friday strike.
Future Majority keeps pressure on Mississauga over green building rules
Young climate activists stressed the need for Mississauga to improve its inadequate and voluntary green measures during this month's election campaign, while councillors told them it's up to developers or the province to fix.
Youth in historic climate case get their day in Ontario court
An Ontario court will this week decide whether the provincial government has harmed young people and future generations with its climate policies.