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’s environment minister didn’t make it to the UN nature summit. He blames the opposition
7 min. readSteven Guilbeault says opposition parties effectively blocked his participation by refusing to send delegates themselves...
Canada’s global nature pledges stymied by politicking at home: Guilbeault
As Canada joins other countries at COP16 to hash out ambitious plans to save nature,...
The fight to make Woodfibre LNG a ballot box issue this B.C. election
Woodfibre LNG and the FortisBC pipeline are under construction — but the controversial projects are...
Your B.C. election guide to key climate and conservation issues
Here’s where the NDP, Conservatives and Greens stand on the carbon tax, LNG, old-growth forests...
Your B.C. election guide to old-growth forest and other key nature issues
The decisions of the next provincial government could determine the trajectory for almost 2,000 species...
B.C. fish and wildlife programs are in ‘crisis’
Disease monitoring for bighorn sheep, and bats are among programs affected by government wildlife funding...
Nearly 2,000 species are at-risk in B.C. Only 42 are being considered for new protections
Internal government records show officials are working to update list of at-risk species under forestry...
Here’s where companies logged B.C. forests without permission
Public records show companies allegedly logged or removed timber without authorization 173 times since 2021
Companies logged B.C. forests 170 times without authorization since 2021, records show
The provincial government can’t say how much was improperly harvested and refuses to release details...