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
5 things to know about water pollution at Canada’s busiest port
6 min. read700 contaminants, 629 kilograms of oil and grease a day, 1 leaked video
A portrait of pollution around Canada’s busiest port
Tsleil-Waututh Nation is intent on rewriting provincial policy to protect Burrard Inlet from industrial waste....
Conservation chronicles: Sarah Cox dives into the heart of wildlife protection in her new book
Indigenous communities, ranchers, scientists and even the Canadian military spoke with Cox about saving at-risk...
Costs to clean up Teck’s B.C. coal mines are billions higher than previously thought: report
A new report finds the price tag to treat water contaminated with selenium in the...
B.C. to test need for heli-ski flight data to support caribou conservation
B.C. Lands Minister Nathan Cullen says he’ll wait for the results of a pilot project...
Canada, U.S. launch international inquiry into southeast B.C. mine pollution
Ktunaxa Nation has been calling for an International Joint Commission’s inquiry to address pollution from...
Highway havoc: the perilous dance between bison and vehicles on a northern B.C. road
Thousands of animals are struck and injured, or killed, by vehicles in the province. One...
B.C. counted poorly protected old-growth forests toward conservation targets, researchers say
The province counted most old-growth management areas towards its 30-by-30 conservation targets. A new report...
When epic ski trips and caribou conservation collide
Biologists are calling on the heli-skiing industry to share detailed information about their operations to...