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.
Tech company interns seek the positive in virtual experience
Interns at software company SAP Canada are pushing through the challenges of experiencing a corporate environment from home.
Calls to defund police grow, but Toronto mayor not buying in
The outpouring of outrage over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police is morphing into a growing movement to defund law enforcement and reinvest public funds in community-led safety. Toronto Mayor John Tory does not think it is a credible idea.
Pandemic could hasten higher education transformation, but critics abound
Canada’s universities and colleges face challenges on multiple fronts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the solutions may include sharing more and hiring less, a discussion paper from the Royal Bank of Canada says. Student and faculty unions are dubious.
Canada protests police violence, racism in shadow of U.S. tumult
Protesters across Canada this weekend joined those south of the border in standing up against police brutality in the wake of the death of a young Black woman in Toronto.
Kids of colour breaking down Toronto tech barriers
The technology industry has a diversity problem. But youth initiatives are creating the pipeline of talent their founders say can help fix it.
Ontario pushing through changes to tenancy law as crisis looms
Premier Doug Ford's government is going ahead with changes to tenancy law that would make it easier for landlords to evict renters just as the COVID-19 pandemic is swelling the ranks of those falling into arrears.
Pandemic means a shift in tactics for social justice movement
With few schools open from which to walk out in protest of the climate crisis, young activists are seeking to keep the momentum going in the digital realm. Meanwhile, Canadian civil society is angling to shape the recovery from COVID-19.
Ontario high school union wants say in government’s reopening plan
The head of Ontario's biggest high school union says the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation must be consulted by the Ford government as it plans for schools to reopen in September.
Making rent: pandemic exposes Ontario’s precarious rental market
As income loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into a third month, both landlord and tenant groups are bracing for even more households to fall into rent arrears. That could lead to a tidal wave of evictions once a tribunal to deal with them is reopened.
High schoolers get ready for a virtual prom
When high school proms got cancelled across the country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemics, hundreds of graduating seniors volunteered to help Student Life Network create a virtual version.