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 education minister hints at extending winter break
Ontario’s education minister won’t say whether kids will get an extended winter break this year, but the Ford government is considering it to protect the classrooms Stephen Lecce says are the safest in the country.
Global tourism conglomerate faces climate change head-on in new sustainable travel strategy
The travel industry was sideswiped by COVID-19, and one young Toronto-based sustainability expert sees that as an opportunity to make it greener. But airline emission cuts will have to be part of the rebuild, environmentalists say.
Campus Corps enlists university students in divestment, renewables push
The Climate Reality Project founded by former U.S. vice-president Al Gore is turning its attention to Canadian universities with the expansion of its Campus Corps program.
Young activists win right to sue Ontario’s Ford government over climate policy
The decision sets up a legal reckoning over whether governments must actively avoid conduct that can be expected to result in future harm, in this case the section 7 constitutional right to life, liberty and security of the person.
Queer youth, elders foster intergenerational conversation amid COVID-19
Tyler Sloane, the youth facilitator of Buddies in Bad Times theatre’s In Conversation series, says growing up in a small town in the Prairies makes the pandemic feel oddly familiar, as they co-host an online version of the effort to connect queer youth and elders.
Tea Base shuts doors, but spirit of basement art space lives on
Toronto art space Tea Base launched early last year with a mandate to engage the local community and bridge the divide between older and younger generations. It closed its doors last month, but collective members are already looking at what comes next.
Giving youth the advocacy tools to help end the AIDS epidemic
The NoTimeToWait conference aims to get young people talking about HIV and AIDS to raise awareness of the risks today, fight stigma and advocate for equity.
Why young people should care about Ontario’s 2020 budget
The province’s spending plan for the next three years has a focus on getting young people into the trades as Progressive Conservatives unveil their plan to “protect, support, recover” from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Long Winter ahead will be digital for Toronto DIY youth scene
The Toronto DIY scene’s Long Winter choose-your-own-adventure can no longer pack young people together in sweaty mosh pits or have them sit cross-legged in an attic listening to experimental electronica, throwing the arts series’ ninth year into uncharted territory.
U of T hip-hop conference highlights virtual storytelling, activism
Hip-hop culture has much to add to the racial justice conversation taking place in the streets and on basketball courts across the United States and even in Canada, says the curator of a University of Toronto education series on the movement.