By Morgan Sharp, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
It’s been a long time coming, but the seven young people who sued the Ontario government after Doug Ford dismantled the province’s climate policies and downgraded its emissions targets will finally get their day in court this week.
Three, in fact. But they will be virtual appearances.
Continue reading Youth in historic climate case get their day in Ontario court
By Morgan Sharp, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
More than a third of young adult internet users in Canada either witnessed or experienced online harassment last year, a wide-ranging survey on digital habits found, although there has been a significant decline in its visibility.
Continue reading Fewer young Canadians seeing the steady stream of online harassmentBy Morgan Sharp, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The laboratory in a downtown Toronto university building is under construction, its emergency wash station getting an upgrade, but the daily testing of incoming wastewater samples for COVID-19 goes on unabated.
Samples arrive in Nalgene-sized bottles from sites all over the city — large treatment plants and community and congregate sites, such as university residences, shelters and long-term care homes — and Nora Dannah has to walk down to shipping and receiving to collect them.
Continue reading Just a day in the lab seeking COVID in sewageBy Morgan Sharp, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s goal of a net-zero economy by 2050 will require a broad reassessment of how we live and work, creating some entirely new jobs and remodelling many others. Post-secondary institutes say they’re already shifting to train the next generation of workers.
Continue reading Colleges get set to train Canada’s green workforceBy Morgan Sharp, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Two Greenpeace activists were hoisted above the entrance to the Royal Bank of Canada’s Bay Street [Toronto] headquarters on Tuesday, part of a sustained campaign to get the country’s banks to divest from fossil fuel projects and respect Indigenous rights.
Continue reading Greenpeace targets RBC for its fossil fuel financing
