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.
As back-to-school looms, what legal options do Ontario’s teachers have?
As the return to school looms, teachers and their unions can draw on several legal avenues if they feel unsafe in the classroom or unable to work due to the pandemic.
Green Party leadership contenders seek to woo youth
The nine contenders jostling to replace Elizabeth May as leader of Canada’s federal Green party sought to win over its young members on Sunday in a debate arranged by its youth council.
Ontario student says school’s inaction exacerbated hallway racism
When photographs of a younger Justin Trudeau wearing blackface and brownface emerged during the 2019 federal election campaign, it emboldened students at one school to replicate them, a student says. When the school did little in response, the racism flourished.
Ottawa updates COVID-19 worker benefits, lets student aid expire
The federal Liberal government says it will transfer workers who lost work due to the COVID-19 pandemic and have been receiving emergency benefits onto new recovery versions of employment insurance, but will let benefits for students expire.
University students building peer support to battle isolation
Students at the University of Toronto and Lakehead University in Thunder Bay are building resources to help their peers deal with the isolation of remote learning and reduce the stigma related to poor mental health.
Climate youth remind power they’re watching, but their attention is divided
The young campaigners from the Fridays for Future movement dropped banners outside the Queen’s Park provincial legislature and city hall in Toronto, as well as near Parliament in Ottawa and sites in Montreal and Edmonton on Wednesday.
High school students see learning at risk with part-time classes
High school students in Toronto say they worry about online learning and how vaguely they’ve been kept apprised of logistics for the half-days they’ll be attending classes physical and virtual when schools reopen in September.
Toronto police arrest, charge, use force against way more Black people
The Ontario Human Rights Commission’s second interim report shows Toronto police are much more likely to detain, charge, arrest, beat or kill a Black person despite charges often being withdrawn, which it says “raises systemic concerns about charging practices.”
Toronto Public Health issues warning over back-to-school class sizes
Toronto Public Health adds its voice to a growing chorus of concern about back-to-school plans in a letter to the Toronto District School Board over class sizes and the inability to physically distance adequately.
Ontario tribunal says almost 6,000 eviction requests received since COVID-19 shutdown
While the pace of applications slowed during a moratorium on evictions, the backlog of cases at the Landlord and Tenant Board grew while it only heard urgent cases.