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
‘This land holds everything we love’: hope grows for Indigenous conservation in northwest B.C.
8 min. readThe Narwhal sat down with land stewardship director Gillian Staveley, to talk about the Kaska’s...
Canada just made national parks free this summer — can we love nature without hurting it?
Conservationists are in favour of the move — which could increase public support for protections...
B.C. failing to protect 81% of critical habitat for at-risk species: government docs
B.C. allows industrial logging in critical habitat for at-risk species — part of the reason...
Six years studying a deadly disease. One promising treatment. Then came Trump funding cuts
At a crucial point in their research, biologists are scrambling to find new support for...
One of Canada’s biggest copper mines plans to expand. B.C. says it won’t need an environmental assessment
Xatśūll First Nation asked B.C. to order an environmental assessment of the Gibraltar mine’s expansion...
Feds reject emergency order to help endangered orca whales
Conservation groups say Ottawa’s decision puts southern resident killer whales at greater risk of extinction
‘A blow’: First Nation Chief says she’s lost trust in Rockies conservation talks with B.C., feds
Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi’it Nasuʔkin (Chief) Heidi Gravelle says she’s lost confidence in discussions over the future...
B.C. asked feds to use coal-rich land for conservation: internal docs
The land, in Ktunaxa Nation territory, includes the headwaters of the Flathead River and coal...
Coal mine pollution: international inquiry details plan to investigate Canada, U.S. contamination
After decades of pollution from B.C. coal mines, an international inquiry is proposing to spotlight...