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.
Toronto city clerk seeks pause on ranked ballot plans
The senior city staffer, Ulli Watkiss, is recommending that Toronto council stop getting ranked ballots ready for the 2022 municipal election, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. Advocates have pushed for a decade to ditch first-past-the-post voting in favour of a preferential voting system they say increases the diversity of candidates and improves the tenor of campaigns.
Ford sees 'perfect storm' as schools open and COVID-19 cases top 300
Many of Ontario’s growing number of new COVID-19 cases are in the Greater Toronto Area and some have already shown up in schools, while parents and teachers worry about minimally spaced classrooms and buses exacerbating a potential second wave.
The youth of Pivot 2020 are charting the future of cities
Pivot 2020 is a youth mission to find out how cities can be improved in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the group is hiring 1,200 young people and training them to research and analyse the concerns of their peers.
Young people in Canada envisioning the future of work at online summit
More than a hundred young people from across Canada are logging on to a summit this week to solve problems related to the future of work, where automation is expected to upend even more industries. It is backed by one of the country’s biggest banks, which is meanwhile pushing for Canada to expand its digital export of post-secondary education.
Lecce welcomes kids back to school as Elliott halts any lifting of restrictions
Ontario opened many of its schools for the first time since before the March break on the same day the province paused any further loosening of COVID-19 restrictions. The moves come amid a steady increase in new cases centred in Brampton, Ottawa and Toronto.
COVID-19 drops cloud of financial uncertainty on universities and colleges
Canadian post-secondary institutions must spend heavily to move courses online while bracing for a sharp loss in revenue from stymied international enrolment. It could be calamitous for some, warns one education executive who decried Ottawa’s lack of direction.
Canada’s youth miss out on much of country’s August job gains
Young people have found it more difficult to return to the labour force than the rest of Canada’s working population, especially in Ontario and especially among youth of colour, the latest jobs stats show.
A green COVID-19 awakening
In the second instalment of this series on Toronto’s climate action protest movement, a Colombian expat goes from never attending a climate strike to helping plan for the first global street event of the COVID-19 era.
When protest can't be social
While its downtown campus has laid dormant for almost six months now, climate protestors studying at the University of Toronto have been milling about in growing numbers online and joining Black Lives Matter protests in real life.
Ontario Liberals want your views on Ford's school reopening plan. Especially if they're bad.
Steven Del Duca, the leader of the Ontario Liberals without a seat in the legislature, stood outside Queen’s Park on Tuesday seeking the email addresses of people upset about Doug Ford’s back-to-school plan.