Last week the Ontario New Democrats released their “Plan for Affordable Change,” an early edition of selected platform planks, and it looks like Team Orange is ready to climb down off the barricades and move out to the suburbs. Eschewing awkward idealism, leader Andrea Horwath described the plan as “reasonable, practical, and affordable” (like a used minivan or a T-shirt from the Gap), but it actually represents a significant shift in the way the New Democrats want you to see them. Reading the plan, it’s evident that if Horwath and Progressive Conservative chief Tim Hudak aren’t exactly on the same page, they’re starting to cruise some of the same aisles at Chapters.