Morgan Sharp
Reporter | Toronto |
English
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.
Steven Del Duca on track to become next Ontario Liberal leader
Steven Del Duca secured the support of more than half of the delegates elected at Ontario Liberal leadership meetings across the province this weekend
Ontario's electric debacle
In the final part of a three-part series, the six candidates vying to become the Liberal Party of Ontario’s next leader tell National Observer their plans for the province's electricity system.
Electric trains, EVs and cheaper, maybe even free, transit up ahead for Ontario?
In Part 2 of a three-part series, the six candidates vying to become the Liberal Party of Ontario's next leader tell Canada's National Observer what they plan to do to improve the province's transit and transportation sectors.
RCMP urge Wet'suwet'en to stand down over pipeline or face arrest
Members of the remote First Nation in northern B.C. are expecting conflict with police to come at any moment. “Nobody slept well last night,” said Jennifer Wickham, a Gidimt'en Clan member
Ontario Liberal-leader hopefuls on climate
Next month, Liberal party members in Ontario will decide who among six candidates will be their next leader. Which contender will offer voters the starkest choice in 2022 when it comes to climate ambition?
Doomsday Clock moves to less than two minutes to midnight
Failure to act on the climate crisis and renewed nuclear escalation have left the world the closest it's ever been to man-made global catastrophe, the scientists behind the Doomsday Clock said on Thursday.
Protestors arrested at B.C. energy ministry for targeting a pipeline in solidarity with hereditary chiefs
Protesters locked themselves together inside the offices of British Columbia's energy ministry in protests against the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
Liberals fight climate battle on two fronts in Manitoba
Two events on Monday illustrated two distinct fronts on which the Trudeau government is waging its climate battle: one engages a right-leaning premier testing his leverage in the wake of 2019 elections; the other seeks to engage the grassroots directly, bypassing politics.
Climate denier booted as chair of Niagara conservation authority
The board of the Niagara region’s conservation authority voted emphatically to reject an extension of Dave Bylsma’s role as chair on Wednesday, amid protests about his links to climate denialism. Three candidates put their hands up to replace Bylsma, and his nomination was removed from consideration after the first round of balloting.
Critics say Doug Ford's goal of keeping an aging nuclear plant online is 'playing with fire'
The Pickering nuclear power plant is already operating beyond the terms of its natural life. Critics warn that the Ford government’s move to eke out a little bit more power from the site is playing with fire.