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.
COVID messaging not getting through to Deaf community, advocates say
As governments and medical officials across Canada ramp up their public communication regarding COVID-19, many of their messages are not getting through to those who rely on sign language interpreters.
Ontario reports first COVID-related death
The person who died was a 77-year-old man in Muskoka. If confirmed, the death would be Ontario's first caused by the novel coronavirus.
Doug Ford declares state of emergency in Ontario
Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency in the province on Tuesday in a bid to combat the spread of COVID-19. Hours later, Ontario’s first presumptive COVID-19 death was reported.
No electricity relief yet for Ontario households during COVID-19 response
Ontario’s energy ministry and the premier won’t say whether the government will push utilities to drop peak electricity rates for the next three weeks of extended school break, when daytime residential usage is expected to spike, despite holding a surplus of funds for rebates.
NDP say Ford government not doing enough to protect workers from COVID-19 losses
Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the Ford government’s planned move to protect jobs will leave large numbers of precarious workers vulnerable.
Ontario cancels school, ramps up response to coronavirus as number of cases jumps
Schools across Ontario will be shuttered for two weeks after next week's break, the provincial government said on Thursday, as it unveiled a string of fresh measures to deal with the novel coronavirus and reported its largest single-day spike in new cases.
Ontario NDP grill environment ministry officials over Ford's climate plan
Ontario’s opposition NDP challenged the top bureaucrats behind the Doug Ford government’s threadbare climate plan, but the civil servants — much like the political masters they serve — ducked and weaved and pointed mostly to policy actions yet to take effect when asked about Ford’s climate achievements.
Ford heads to Ottawa seeking cash for pet transit projects
Doug Ford and a coterie of his top ministers will travel to Ottawa later this week with a list of funding requests they’d like to see covered in the next federal budget, including a sharp increase in transit funding to help deliver the Ontario premier’s subway-centric plans.
A colourful day for Ontario's Liberals, and a pool party
Steven Del Duca handily won the Ontario Liberal leadership in the first round of balloting at the convention in Mississauga on Saturday.
Who is new Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca?
Steven Del Duca’s deep political connections — the 46-year old father of two daughters first volunteered for the Ontario Liberal Party when he was 15 — helped him move from clear front-runner to newly crowned leader.