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
Coal contamination spurs search for new backup drinking water source in Rocky Mountain city
8 min. readMonitoring shows above-guideline selenium concentrations in secondary drinking water wells in Fernie, B.C., downstream of...
These massive B.C. coal mines are about to get a new owner. Why some are worried about Glencore’s record
If the sale goes through, the company will inherit a contamination problem decades in the...
A billion dollars for nature in B.C. as long-awaited agreement is signed
The long-awaited deal comes with $1 billion in both old and new funding to conserve...
Restoring the flow: Tsleil-Waututh’s race to save salmon habitat in drought stricken southwest B.C.
When tens of thousands of pink salmon became stranded in the Indian River during September’s...
‘Frustrating as hell’: advocates say old-growth still being cut years after B.C. promised protections
The province promised to implement more than a dozen recommendations made by an independent review....
B.C. has tools to protect at-risk species from logging. Why isn’t it using them?
B.C. hasn’t updated its legal list of at-risk species in 17 years — which is...
Ktunaxa Nation pushed for an international inquiry into coal mining pollution for more than a decade. Is B.C. now on board?
As Canada and the U.S. negotiate an approach to address ongoing pollution from the Elk...
Bad catch: the fish that’s threatened even if you release it
Scientists are concerned rules to protect bottom-dwelling rockfish aren’t always followed, leaving these long-living homebodies...
B.C. is weighing the merits of appointing a ‘chief ecologist,’ internal docs show
As species disappear and ecosystems collapse, the new role could help keep B.C. accountable on...