This election will be won on citizenship issues. To our shame.
From expat voting rights to deporting terrorists and rejecting niqabs, this campaign has focused on the surprising question of who gets to be a citizen
Scott Gilmore
Scott Gilmore is a former diplomat and social entrepreneur who works in (and writes about) the United States, Africa and Asia
A real nation would not let this happen
We care more about postal service, child care and tax credits for the suburban middle class than we do Aboriginal issues. What kind of a nation are we?
The Conservatives, the party for the manly man? Hardly.
Scott Gilmore grew up learning that real men voted Tory
Why politicians have nothing to say on the campaign trail
Conventional wisdom now says elections are not only the wrong time to discuss issues, they’re the wrong time to discuss anything
Scott Gilmore: The issues no party will touch
How can one of the world’s wealthiest countries still have citizens living in medieval conditions?
Scott Gilmore faces his harshest critics
Our columnist called up some of the angriest opponents of his refugee plan. Underneath the abuse, he found, were some legitimate fears.
Escaping the election cocoon
Increasingly, voters hear only the voices they agree with. How to break free from the echo chamber.
We can bring in 200,000 refugees in the next year. Here’s how.
We have the capacity to welcome many more refugees to Canada than our leaders are pledging. What’s lacking is the political will.
Why Canada should take in 20 times more refugees
In Canada, ’thinking big’ often means thinking a little less small. Scott Gilmore on why the image of a drowned Syrian boy must shock us into action
European refugee crisis? Nope.
’We didn’t start calling it a “crisis” until people began arriving in Europe,’ Scott Gilmore writes