Yumna Iftikhar is a Pakistani Canadian journalist with an interest in covering Canada’s energy transition journey. Growing up on the shores of Montserrat, an island in the Caribbean Sea, and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada’s eastern most province surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, she is interested in understanding how smaller cities are transitioning to renewable energies and adapting to climate change.

 

Her articles include Ties that bind, a look at how women have solidified their place in Newfoundland and Labrador’s fishing Industry and 'Province Losing Water Bomber Pilots As Threat of Wildfires Grows‘ a deep dive into the province’s wildfire preparedness plan. Her works also explore the use of artificial intelligence to detect wildfires and how Canada is storing its nuclear waste.

 

Additionally, she has written for the CBC and Ottawa Citizen.

 

She has produced audio works including an episode on how newcomers are navigating Newfoundland and Labrador’s housing crisis. She has a diploma in Film and Theatre and enjoys incorporating her videography and photography skills in her articles.

 

Yumna is a Master of Journalism student at Carleton University, where she was awarded the Bill McWhinney Memorial Scholarship for International Development and Journalism for her work on transgender rights in Pakistan.

 

She is also the secretary for Canadian Association for Journalists’ Ottawa Chapter. When not writing articles she volunteers as English to Urdu translator for settlement companies and writes short scripts for horror films which she hopes to produce one day.