fundraising tactics but also a policy review committee to weed out outdated resolutions from the policy manual.

The post-Halifax policy book still contains so-called leftist staples such as the decriminalization of marijuana and “an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian land,” but gone are the calls for Canada to leave NATO or nationalize banks.

The New Democrats also campaigned in the recent election on a job creation strategy that included tax cuts for small businesses, a previously unrealized constituency for the party they say dovetails nicely with their traditional championing of the little guy.

James Laxer, a political science professor at York University who once ran for the NDP leadership and was part of the socialism-based “Waffle” faction in the late 1960s and early 1970s, said the shift to the centreCategories

Doubt Truths

Who’s telling the truth, and is it true, or only a perception, belief, guess, or just relative to the time, place, and manner?

For the first time, after reading many accounts on what happened to the alleged orchestrator of the 9-11 attack on the World Trade Center over the last 14 years since 2001, a whole new ‘truth appears’ from the famed ‘truth teller’ (allegedly) who escaped to Moscow. Former CIA employee, Edward Snowden has said (again it’s allegedly) that he has evidence showing that Osama bin Laden, who was supposedly killed in Pakistan in 2011 by U.S. special forces, is still alive and well. In an interview with the Moscow Tribune, Snowden said Osama was living in the Bahamas, on the payroll of the CIA. (that last