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
Researchers designed an alert to prevent trains from killing animals. Why aren’t we using it?
9 min. readWildlife 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...
Breakfast time at Vancouver’s baby seal nursery
Dozens of harbour seals, many less than five days old, are rehabilitated at the Vancouver...
Salmon habitat is destroyed for development. Is it possible to replace what’s lost?
A human-constructed marsh in B.C.’s Fraser River was meant to mimic natural feeding and breeding...
‘Still knocking down an entire mountain’: new Elk Valley coal mine plan faces pushback
Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi’it and conservationists say revised proposal for a new southeast B.C. mountain-top mine is...
In the shadow of Kelowna’s housing boom, fragile ecosystems depend on those fighting to save them
As urban sprawl threatens the Okanagan’s rare grasslands, a proposed wildlife corridor offers a glimmer...
‘We’re going to create space for our animals’: B.C., feds commit $8 million for ecological corridors
Funding will help communities identify, plan and improve corridors that link vital patches of wildlife...