Ainslie Cruickshank
B.C. Biodiversity Reporter
@ainscruickshank 
Ainslie Cruickshank is a Vancouver-based journalist covering biodiversity issues for The Narwhal. She has previously written for The Walrus, The Toronto Star and StarMetro Vancouver. Ainslie has worked in the Yukon, Ontario, Alberta and B.C. covering politics as well as the environment and natural resource issues. She has an undergraduate degree in journalism from Carleton University and an MA in public and international affairs from the University of Ottawa. Ainslie's role has been created with support from the Sitka Foundation. As per The Narwhal’s editorial independence policy, the foundation has no editorial input.
Stories by Ainslie Cruickshank
B.C. government ‘lagging way behind’ on coal mine pollution research
6 min. readIn neighbouring Alberta, government scientists are producing peer-reviewed studies on the impacts of coal mining....
Senior Alberta officials stalled release of coal mine pollution science
A government scientist was prevented from speaking to the media and community groups about his...
B.C.’s failure to fund flood response ‘troublesome’ as atmospheric river strikes again
Rising waters closed highways and forced evacuations, prompting fresh criticism that the province has been...
Who’s responsible for train-wildlife deaths? B.C. and Ottawa give different answers
An investigation by The Narwhal showed railways aren’t consistently meeting requirements to report wildlife strikes....
A dangerous road for B.C. wildlife is getting safer — fence by fence, passage by passage
Every year, thousands of animals are killed on roads and highways. Through carefully designed fences...
Researchers designed an alert to prevent trains from killing animals. Why aren’t we using it?
Wildlife deaths on Canada’s railways are tracked inconsistently and remain largely unresolved. Researchers say an...
Collision course: Animals killed on Canada’s railways
Trains regularly hit wildlife but poor reporting obscures the true toll — and a government...
Dozens of nations move to safeguard international waters, but not Canada — yet
Canada played an ‘instrumental’ role in the High Seas Treaty, but until it ratifies the...
B.C.’s long-promised watershed security strategy is done. It’s just not public
The province has sat on the completed strategy for more than a year, despite calls...
