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

aeriel view of open pit coal mines in the Rocky Mountains of the Elk Valley

Canada flip-flops amid calls for international investigation into B.C. coal mine pollution

By Ainslie Cruickshank

May 26, 2022 8 min. read

Behind the scenes of a decade-long fight for the International Joint Commission to investigate pollution...

Two men sit on the front of a boat over glassy water on Lake Koocanusa

How pollution from Canadian coal mines threatens the fish at the heart of communities from B.C. to Idaho

By Ainslie Cruickshank

April 23, 2022 29 min. read

Selenium from a string of Teck Resources' mines in southeastern B.C. is projected to contaminate...

Angelina Hopkins Rose looks at a salmonberry bush at Mundy Lake Park in Coquitlam, B.C.

Spraying herbicides from helicopters? Concerns mount over plans for southern B.C. forests

By Ainslie Cruickshank

April 12, 2022 11 min. read

To the forestry industry these plants are pests, but for berry pickers they are important...

An aerial view of Teck Resources' Elk Valley coal mines in the snow

Teck is fighting Montana pollution rules it doesn’t have to follow. Why? Look to B.C.

By Ainslie Cruickshank

Feb. 2, 2022 11 min. read

Teck Resources operates some of the biggest coal mines in the country in the Elk...

Prabhjot Kaur Dhillon hugs her friend in the aftermath of B.C.'s devastating floods

Canada is leaving communities in the dark about the risks and costs of climate disasters

By Ainslie Cruickshank

Jan. 13, 2022 8 min. read

A new report finds the federal government isn’t doing enough to act on or disclose...

B.C., LNG Canada

Why LNG Canada could be B.C.’s last kick at the liquefied natural gas can

By Ainslie Cruickshank

Dec. 16, 2021 10 min. read

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

By Ainslie Cruickshank

Dec. 14, 2021 9 min. read

‘Climate change is upon us,’ but B.C.’s not yet prepared to face the heat, wildfires...

LNG subsidies, water, B.C.

B.C. government urged to address ‘outdated’ water subsidies for oil and gas companies

By Ainslie Cruickshank

Dec. 13, 2021 11 min. read

Companies withdrew 4.2 billion litres of water under short-term approvals and licences in 2020 for...

An aerial view of a coal mining in B.C.'s mountains

Coal provinces ‘co-ordinated’ fight against federal water pollution rules

By Ainslie Cruickshank

Nov. 29, 2021 11 min. read

Internal government documents show Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia worked in opposition to proposed...

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