Hi I'm Hope Lompe, a Vancouver Island-based journalist with a love for government policy and stories about the natural world. My award-winning work for Canada's National Observer has been seen through the Local Journalism Initiative in places like CBC, Chek News, Vancouver Sun, Times Colonist and many other publications across Canada.

​

My investigative data journalism on Canada's temporary foreign worker program is my proudest work to date, earning a national data journalism award and cited as part of my student Jack Webster Foundation award. 

​

You can read the story here, and read on the data award here. 

​​

In 2025, I completed a bachelor's degree in journalism with a minor in political science from KPU, where I was a reporter for the student newspaper.

 

More recently, I finished a three-month climate journalism fellowship with The Energy Mix in 2026. I am now a freelance journalist writing regularly on the climate beat, and a civic affairs reporter for the Gabriola Sounder.

​

Outside of journalism you'll often see me on a bike trail, climbing a mountain or traveling. I am fortunate to have travelled to 30 countries on six continents from Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes, to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and beyond. ​​