Ainslie Cruickshank
Ainslie Cruickshank is a Vancouver-based journalist. She was The Narwhal's biodiversity reporter and has 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.
Stories by Ainslie Cruickshank
Canada flip-flops amid calls for international investigation into B.C. coal mine pollution
8 min. readBehind the scenes of a decade-long fight for the International Joint Commission to investigate pollution...
How pollution from Canadian coal mines threatens the fish at the heart of communities from B.C. to Idaho
Selenium from a string of Teck Resources' mines in southeastern B.C. is projected to contaminate...
Spraying herbicides from helicopters? Concerns mount over plans for southern B.C. forests
To the forestry industry these plants are pests, but for berry pickers they are important...
Teck is fighting Montana pollution rules it doesn’t have to follow. Why? Look to B.C.
Teck Resources operates some of the biggest coal mines in the country in the Elk...
Canada is leaving communities in the dark about the risks and costs of climate disasters
A new report finds the federal government isn’t doing enough to act on or disclose...
Why LNG Canada could be B.C.’s last kick at the liquefied natural gas can
The Kitimat liquefaction facility at the end of the contested Coastal GasLink pipeline will be...
After a year of climate disaster, B.C. grapples with the urgent need to adapt to its dangerous future
‘Climate change is upon us,’ but B.C.’s not yet prepared to face the heat, wildfires...
B.C. government urged to address ‘outdated’ water subsidies for oil and gas companies
Companies withdrew 4.2 billion litres of water under short-term approvals and licences in 2020 for...
Coal provinces ‘co-ordinated’ fight against federal water pollution rules
Internal government documents show Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia worked in opposition to proposed...