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
Alberta’s renewed bet on coal: what Kenney’s policy shift means for mining, parks and at-risk species
10 min. readThe UCP government has rescinded a decades-old policy that restricted coal mining in parts of...
B.C. wants to know how much it’s going to cost fracking, mining industries to adapt to climate change
The province wants to better understand the economic impact events such as droughts will have...
A green COVID-19 recovery: how Canada can chart a sustainable path forward for the economy
New report from Canada’s leading environmental groups lays out a roadmap for recovery that ties...
B.C. eyes emissions trading to offset effects of LNG development, government documents show
Province considers trading under Paris Agreement a ‘priority’ to ensure it can push forward with...
Canada’s conservation efforts must prioritize areas resilient to climate change, researchers say
New studies show that factoring climate change impacts into planning for protected areas can help...
Canadian oil lobby’s demands to skip environmental monitoring put public health at risk, experts warn
CAPP asked the federal government to suspend pollution monitoring and methane leak detection — requests...
There will be floods: risk could double for world’s coastal and river communities by 2030
New report uses flood mapping to identify areas in urgent need of protection from climate...
Amid coronavirus pandemic, some B.C. communities brace for flooding as well
Communities right across the country, from New Brunswick to B.C., are facing the possibility of...
Supreme Court rejects Trans Mountain legal challenges. So, what’s next?
Cases regarding the pipeline’s impacts on endangered killer whales and Indigenous rights won’t be heard,...