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.
Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford to be next premier of Ontario
The voting process, like the campaign that preceded it, was not without complications.Voting hours in several locations were extended anywhere from 20 minutes to four hours beyond the 9 p.m. closing time in the rest of the province.
Leadnow makes last push for anti-Ford voters to show up
“We are opposed to what we can tell that the PCs are standing against and for under Ford,” said Brittany Smith, a senior campaigner with the group.
Horwath gaining on Ford among older voters, says poll
Support among seniors for the Progressive Conservative party has slipped during the campaign for the June 7 Ontario election, says CARP, an advocacy group for older citizens. Their support for the NDP has doubled. Health care is their No. 1 issue and 95 per cent in a poll plan to vote.
Bots for Doug Ford
PC party leader Doug Ford’s Twitter messages are often amplified from a small army of hyper-partisan, largely anonymous accounts that publish with inhuman frequency. They make his @fordnation pronouncements appear more popular than they are, say some observers.
Doug Ford says he will 'come down heavy' on polluters, but offers few details
“We have a strong environmental message,” Doug Ford told reporters at a tightly-scripted news conference in Ottawa. “People want clean lakes, they want clean rivers, they want clean air and we’re going to make sure that we deliver that.”
'I'm okay with that'
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne on Saturday conceded she would lose her job running the province in the June 7 election but urged voters to back Liberal Party candidates to ensure neither the Progressive Conservative’s Doug Ford nor NDP’s Andrea Horwath win a majority.
Doug Ford’s promise to repeal cap and trade could cost Ontario billions - lawyer
Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford’s campaign trail promise to withdraw Ontario from the cap and trade market it shares with Quebec and California would likely cost the province between $2 billion and $4 billion, a leading environmental lawyer warns.
Kinder Morgan reaps reward for handing over Trans Mountain
Texas-based Kinder Morgan gets to walk away from the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline with a decent financial boost but is deprived of significant future earnings growth after Canada’s federal government paid $4.5 billion to take the expansion project (and the existing pipeline) off its hands on Tuesday.
A 'risky' investment
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his decision to use taxpayer money to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline and its troubled expansion project for $4.5 billion was made after the company told his government that the project was a "risky" investment.
Trudeau government to buy troubled Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5 billion
Kinder Morgan CEO Steve Kean has confirmed a deal to sell its Trans Mountain project to the Trudeau government for $4.5 billion.