Lindsay Sample
Lindsay Sample is B.C. bureau chief at The Narwhal, leading coverage of how climate change, resource development and ecological disruption affect communities across the province. Her work centres on turning complex environmental risk - from extreme heat to large industrial projects - into clear, deeply reported stories grounded in place and lived experience. She combines newsroom leadership with reporting and editing that push The Narwhal’s B.C. coverage toward in-depth, solutions-focused journalism.
Extreme heat and climate risk
Sample’s reporting on climate impacts includes coverage of extreme heat, notably in her piece “Are we ready for the next heat dome?”, which examines the risks of future heat waves driven by a warming climate and what preparation looks like on the ground. She treats climate change as a force that intersects with daily life rather than a distant trend, emphasizing how weather disasters and shifting seasons translate into concrete risks for people and ecosystems.
Her approach favours explanatory reporting that connects scientific concern about escalating climate hazards with institutional readiness and community-level responses.
Fossil fuel projects and industrial impacts
Sample maintains a sustained focus on the push to accelerate fossil fuel and mining projects and the tension that creates with environmental protections.
In her work around LNG Canada’s flaring record, she raises pointed questions about whether one of the country’s marquee liquefied natural gas projects is responsible for some of the worst flaring in the world, and what that means for emissions and nearby communities. Under her bureau leadership, The Narwhal’s B.C. coverage digs into coastal and marine projects such as the Port of Vancouver’s Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion, documenting how infrastructure proposals can threaten the “superfood” ecosystem relied on by western sandpipers and other migratory birds. Across these stories, Sample pushes for data-driven reporting on industrial development that foregrounds environmental limits and regulatory scrutiny rather than project hype.
B.C. bureau leadership and investigations
As B.C. bureau chief, Sample guides a growing team of reporters as they dig into stories about the province’s mountains, rivers, forests, creatures and communities, assigning pieces and supporting them through editing and publication. She leads a B.C.-based reporting team that produces in-depth coverage of the natural world, managing staff, contractors and freelancers while overseeing the rollout of complex stories. Her investigative orientation is reflected in how she describes the bureau’s work: investigations take months to pull off, and she champions independent digital journalism that better serves the public. Sample’s editing has shaped major projects that have been recognized with national journalism awards, including environment reporting honoured by the Jack Webster Awards and innovative storytelling celebrated by the Canadian Journalism Foundation and Webster innovation awards. Colleagues credit her with sharp editing, strong support and a focus on shifting narratives from problems to solutions, especially in coverage that centres Indigenous guardians, wildfire response and food systems.
Across her roles as reporter, editor and bureau leader, Sample’s work is defined by a consistent through-line: rigorous environmental reporting that links climate science, industrial expansion and ecological change to the lives of people and species in B.C.
She favours stories that stay close to the ground, whether interrogating preparedness for the next heat dome or tracing the consequences of resource projects for rivers, wetlands and migratory birds. The result is a B.C. environment beat that is both investigative and accessible, rooted in explaining how large forces - climate change, extractive industries, regulatory choices - play out in specific places.
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Angela Capobianco
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Bianca McKeown
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