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.
McKenna sued in VW emissions-scandal fallout
Ecojustice, acting on behalf of Environmental Defence staff, said it has launched the case seeking to hold the federal environment minister accountable.
Inside Tim Hortons’ new upscale café
The iconic Canadian coffee shop chain is seeking to refresh its brand with the launch of its flagship store on King Street in Toronto's downtown core. National Observer was invited check it out. Text by Alastair Sharp. Photos by Cole Burston
Advisors quit, accusing Trudeau government of dithering on corporate watchdog
All representatives of civil society groups and trade unions have resigned from a panel appointed by the Trudeau government to provide advice about a new corporate watchdog, complaining that the government had failed to give the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) the teeth to investigate allegations of overseas human rights abuses against Canadian corporate citizens.
Want to save the planet? Watch less Netflix (and porn)
The energy demands of online video cause as much pollution as all of Spain, according to a new report.
Emails show Ottawa brushed off abuse allegations abroad
Canadian embassy staff in Africa and officials in Ottawa paid little attention to allegations of human rights abuses at a mine in Tanzania as they sought to aid Barrick Gold Corp in a tussle with the east African country’s government, internal emails show.
Tim Hortons upscaling?
Its reputation has been bruised by a simmering fight with disgruntled franchisees and has faced staunch criticism for how it handled a planned increase in Ontario's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2019. (That issue was made moot by Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government cancelling the previous Liberal government's legislation.) What's next?
Solving your coffee cup problem
A paper milling company from Finland says it can make a plastic-free coffee cup for pennies more per cup, which could help solve the problem of the mixed-material cups otherwise ending up in landfills or oceans.
'Cancerous' cities urgently need Indigenous values: Douglas Cardinal
The architect responsible for the iconic Canadian Museum of History told a crowd in Toronto that urban planners need to reinvent their profession according to the concept of "love and care for all life."
Dean French out amid Ontario PC turmoil
Dean French, widely seen as the driving force behind Doug Ford's rise to the leadership of Ontario's Progressive Conservative party and subsequent election victory, resigned as his chief of staff on Friday, the premier's office said. Ford overhauled his cabinet the previous day, demoting his finance, education and social service ministers after his first budget's cuts proved unpopular.
Ford moves finance minister in major shuffle
The cabinet shuffle comes as the Ford government looks to reset after two months of bad polling for the Ontario Conservatives, a badly received budget that was full of cuts across industries and sectors, and three sets of boos directed at the premier (including one very loud one conducted by tens of thousands of people at the Toronto Raptors Championship parade on Monday).