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.
Doug Ford government lobbyists should be subject to public scrutiny, citizens group says
The man whose job is to guard against improper influence peddling in Ontario politics should issue public rulings about the role of two prominent Progressive Conservative advisors who moved on to head lobbying companies, transparency advocacy group Democracy Watch said on Thursday.
A Canada apart: why rural Canadians rejected the things urban Canadians voted for (mostly)
Canada’s federal election in mid-October laid bare fractures between different parts of the country - resurgent separatists in Quebec joined by disgruntled provinces out west. And that division out in the prairies seemingly only got worse once the votes were counted. Talk of western separation and Wexit followed the new minority Liberal government back to Ottawa.
Canada gets poor marks in latest climate report card
Canada is far from reaching its targets to keep global warming to 1.5 C, a major research report says
VCIB buys CoPower, eyes expansion
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, colloquially known as Vancity, wanted to expand its sustainable-financing operations, the chief executive of its banking subsidiary told Canada's National Observer, and CoPower offered a great opportunity to do so.
Ford government pauses spending cuts, proposes tax cut
Ontario’s budget deficit is set to widen this fiscal year compared to the last one, but Finance Minister Rod Phillips insisted the province’s finances are in better shape than when the Progressive Conservatives came to power.
May quits as leader of Greens
The longtime leader told reporters that she had promised her daughter to hand over the party after the 2019 campaign.
Ontario anti-pollution plan fails to impress environmentalists
The province's environment minister announced a proposal that would expand the government's power to impose levies on those who break environment laws.
White Pines demolition mourned as Ford dismantles green energy in Ontario
Doug Ford’s provincial government started dismantling Ontario’s green-energy industry as soon as he came to power, cancelling 758 wind and solar projects including White Pines.
Protests greet returning Ford government
A chorus of protests greeted Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government as it reconvened Ontario's legislature on Monday after a nearly five-month break in which Ford kept out of the public eye in an attempt to put some distance between sharp criticism of his provincial government and the platform of his federal Conservative counterpart Andrew Scheer.
Liberals win — but it's a minority
The Liberals, a diminished version of the party that swept to power in 2015, will now need support from other parties to form a workable government.