Ainslie Cruickshank
About Ainslie Cruickshank
Ainslie Cruickshank is a Vancouver-based journalist focused on stories at the intersection of the environment, politics, and the economy. She has written for the Toronto Star, the Narwhal, the Edmonton Journal, iPolitics, and the Whitehorse Star. Ainslie has an undergraduate degree in journalism from Carleton University and a master's of arts in public and international affairs from the University of Ottawa.
Lead pollution hung over Trail, B.C., for nearly a century. 30 years later, the city's still cleaning up
For more than 30 years, a small city nestled in the mountains of British Columbia’s West Kootenay region has been working to clean up lead pollution that spewed from the local smelter for almost a century.
Oilsands projects on 'life support' as COVID-19 crisis looms
Oilsands projects that have already secured a greenlight could be in limbo as oil companies face plunging prices
What killed Teck's Frontier mine?
The shelving of the Frontier project triggered laments from some sectors of the business community, while others said the project was doomed from the start.