Morgan Sharp

Reporter Toronto English

, Investigations, News, Business, Energy, Politics, Culture, Toronto youth

About Morgan Sharp

Morgan Sharp is a non-binary journalist who currently writes about youth and young people in and around Toronto, thanks to a grant from the Local Journalism Initiative and the Government of Canada.

They have covered a wide range of subject areas over two 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.

475 Articles

Younger children in Toronto are more likely to contract COVID-19 than any other age group, the city's top doctor said this week. Photo by Kelly Sikkema / Unsplash

Ontario Liberals say Doug Ford should send more COVID-19 tests to schools

Ontario’s Liberals are calling on the Ford government to send out many more COVID-19 rapid test kits to schools, especially in hard-hit neighbourhoods, as children make up a growing portion of the province's overall case count.

Carmen Kossakowski prepares to mail out some the jewelry she made. Photo supplied by Carmen Kossakowski

Mississauga teen cracks TikTok, takes jewelry business global

A high schooler from Mississauga mastered the art of the TikTok video and saw her hobby business selling jewelry explode. She’s hoping the earnings and other accessories help her pay to attend a top U.S. business school.

Young activists say this year’s climate strike is more important than ever

Hundreds of thousands of young climate activists took to the streets in cities around the world on Friday to push for climate action.

Pollster says youth vote was likely quite evenly split

Younger voters only favoured the Liberals over the Conservatives by a small margin just ahead of this week’s federal election, Abacus polling data shows.

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Vaccine passport months too late, still hampered by capacity limits, says one business owner

The COVID-19 vaccine passport should have been implemented two months ago, and now that it’s here, capacity limits should be eased, the owner of a small Parkdale arcade bar says.

What did young voters get out of the 2021 election? That our leaders need to work together

With the federal election leaving the balance of power almost untouched, what did young voters get out of this campaign?

Election 2021

Study details struggles of precariously housed 2SLGBTQ+ youth through COVID-19

The extended restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic have been especially tough on the mental health of 2SLGBTQ+ youth experiencing precarious housing, who are forced to spend more time in unsupportive homes or find alternatives without access to shuttered services.