Brandon Tobin killed his grandmother after a drug-induced seizure. A judge will soon decide his fate

OTTAWA — It’s a pattern almost as old as party politics itself: candidates for party leadership campaign closer to the ideological wings, more in line with their party faithful, then immediately tack towards the centre once they win the leadership vote, more in line with the broader electorate. In the early days of his leadership of the New Democratic Party, however, Avi Lewis has shown no signs of following that pattern. Instead, Lewis, one of the leading architects of the Leap Manifesto, a far-left plan from more than a decade ago that denounced fossil fuel industries and created ...