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Under leader Pierre Poilievre, right, the Conservatives spent more than $16-million on ads attacking the former prime minister and the carbon tax in 2024. The Liberals' 'lean, digital first' focus left enough gas in the tank for Prime Minister Mark Carney's success in 2025, say strategists. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and illustration by Naomi Wildeboer
Opinion | BY GERRY NICHOLLS | June 9, 2025
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, left, and Prime Minister Mark Carney. Political parties may have their differences, but when it comes to fundraising, they all share the same principles, writes Gerry Nicholls. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and illustration by Naomi Wildeboer
Opinion | BY GERRY NICHOLLS | June 9, 2025
Opinion | BY GERRY NICHOLLS | June 9, 2025
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, left, and Prime Minister Mark Carney. Political parties may have their differences, but when it comes to fundraising, they all share the same principles, writes Gerry Nicholls. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and illustration by Naomi Wildeboer
News | BY STUART BENSON | May 6, 2025
The Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre, centre, had another massive first-quarter fundraising total, but their war chest was outnumbered by the Liberals' haul from small donors led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, as the NDP under Jagmeet Singh lagged behind. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and illustration by Joey Sabourin
News | BY STUART BENSON | May 6, 2025
News | BY STUART BENSON | May 6, 2025
The Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre, centre, had another massive first-quarter fundraising total, but their war chest was outnumbered by the Liberals' haul from small donors led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, as the NDP under Jagmeet Singh lagged behind. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and illustration by Joey Sabourin
News | BY RIDDHI KACHHELA | March 12, 2025
Liberal leadership candidates Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland, and Karina Gould.
Liberal leadership candidates Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland, and Karina Gould. All three raised some of their top dollars in Toronto and Ottawa, though winner Carney raised much more. The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia and Andrew Meade
News | BY RIDDHI KACHHELA | March 12, 2025
News | BY RIDDHI KACHHELA | March 12, 2025
Liberal leadership candidates Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland, and Karina Gould.
Liberal leadership candidates Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland, and Karina Gould. All three raised some of their top dollars in Toronto and Ottawa, though winner Carney raised much more. The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia and Andrew Meade
List | BY STUART BENSON | February 5, 2025
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. Poilievre continues to dominate his rivals in fundraising since in late 2022. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
List | BY STUART BENSON | February 5, 2025
List | BY STUART BENSON | February 5, 2025
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. Poilievre continues to dominate his rivals in fundraising since in late 2022. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY STUART BENSON | February 5, 2025
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's, left, second full year as leader set another historic fundraising record in 2024, more than doubling the $15.1-million raised by the governing Liberals in what would be Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's last year as leader. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY STUART BENSON | February 5, 2025
News | BY STUART BENSON | February 5, 2025
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's, left, second full year as leader set another historic fundraising record in 2024, more than doubling the $15.1-million raised by the governing Liberals in what would be Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's last year as leader. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | September 5, 2018
The NDP raised $4.87-million in 2017, down from $5.42-million the year before and the lowest in the last seven years. Jagmeet Singh won the party's leadership late in the year, in October. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | September 5, 2018
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | September 5, 2018
The NDP raised $4.87-million in 2017, down from $5.42-million the year before and the lowest in the last seven years. Jagmeet Singh won the party's leadership late in the year, in October. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY PETER MAZEREEUW AND JOLSON LIM | August 27, 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a collection of senior Liberal Party members. Mr. Trudeau's party has struggled to match the Conservatives in fundraising at the national level, but Liberal electoral district associations handily out-raised Conservative EDAs in 2016 and 2017. Pictured: former party lawyer Craig Munroe, top left, beside Mr. Trudeau and Christina Topp, the party's senior fundraising director, and, clockwise from right, party president Suzanne Cowan (in red); Rob Silver, husband to Mr. Trudeau's chief of staff, Katie Telford, and a former Liberal pundit; Ontario chapter president Tyler Banham; Sachit Mehra, Winnipeg Liberal board member; middle left, Liberal spokesman Braeden Caley. Photograph by Tyler Banham, courtesy of Facebook
News | BY PETER MAZEREEUW AND JOLSON LIM | August 27, 2018
News | BY PETER MAZEREEUW AND JOLSON LIM | August 27, 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a collection of senior Liberal Party members. Mr. Trudeau's party has struggled to match the Conservatives in fundraising at the national level, but Liberal electoral district associations handily out-raised Conservative EDAs in 2016 and 2017. Pictured: former party lawyer Craig Munroe, top left, beside Mr. Trudeau and Christina Topp, the party's senior fundraising director, and, clockwise from right, party president Suzanne Cowan (in red); Rob Silver, husband to Mr. Trudeau's chief of staff, Katie Telford, and a former Liberal pundit; Ontario chapter president Tyler Banham; Sachit Mehra, Winnipeg Liberal board member; middle left, Liberal spokesman Braeden Caley. Photograph by Tyler Banham, courtesy of Facebook
News | BY PETER MAZEREEUW | August 13, 2018
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's party has decided to recoup some of the money lost when it moved to eliminate the per-vote subsidy for all political parties by dipping into campaign expense reimbursements from the government to its MPs. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY PETER MAZEREEUW | August 13, 2018
News | BY PETER MAZEREEUW | August 13, 2018
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's party has decided to recoup some of the money lost when it moved to eliminate the per-vote subsidy for all political parties by dipping into campaign expense reimbursements from the government to its MPs. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY JOLSON LIM | July 31, 2018
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, speaking to reporters in the House foyer, on May 29. With 16 months or so left before the next election, the party has been slow to increase its fundraising. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY JOLSON LIM | July 31, 2018
News | BY JOLSON LIM | July 31, 2018
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, speaking to reporters in the House foyer, on May 29. With 16 months or so left before the next election, the party has been slow to increase its fundraising. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY CHARELLE EVELYN | July 11, 2018
Delegates participate in a plenary session at the Conservative convention in Calgary in 2013. Organizers of this August's convention hope to match the record number of delegates, about 2,300, who attended the last one in 2016 in Vancouver. The Hill Times photograph by Daniel Leon Rodriguez
News | BY CHARELLE EVELYN | July 11, 2018
News | BY CHARELLE EVELYN | July 11, 2018
Delegates participate in a plenary session at the Conservative convention in Calgary in 2013. Organizers of this August's convention hope to match the record number of delegates, about 2,300, who attended the last one in 2016 in Vancouver. The Hill Times photograph by Daniel Leon Rodriguez
News | BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | July 9, 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party lagged behind the Conservative Party, led by Andrew Scheer, in fundraising for the second year in a row in 2017. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | July 9, 2018
News | BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | July 9, 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party lagged behind the Conservative Party, led by Andrew Scheer, in fundraising for the second year in a row in 2017. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY CHARELLE EVELYN | June 13, 2018
Liberal Senator Serge Joyal, right, who served as parliamentary secretary from 1980 to 1981, says MPs serving in that role should be regulated by rules in the political financing bill, C-50. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY CHARELLE EVELYN | June 13, 2018
News | BY CHARELLE EVELYN | June 13, 2018
Liberal Senator Serge Joyal, right, who served as parliamentary secretary from 1980 to 1981, says MPs serving in that role should be regulated by rules in the political financing bill, C-50. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY JOLSON LIM | April 23, 2018
New Liberal Party president Suzanne Cowan speaks to a crowded room of party delegates at the Liberal convention in her hometown of Halifax. The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Munster
News | BY JOLSON LIM | April 23, 2018
News | BY JOLSON LIM | April 23, 2018
New Liberal Party president Suzanne Cowan speaks to a crowded room of party delegates at the Liberal convention in her hometown of Halifax. The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Munster
News | BY JOLSON LIM | April 21, 2018
Finance Minister Bill Morneau, pictured at the Liberals' policy convention in Halifax. The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Munster
News | BY JOLSON LIM | April 21, 2018
News | BY JOLSON LIM | April 21, 2018
Finance Minister Bill Morneau, pictured at the Liberals' policy convention in Halifax. The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Munster
News | BY ABBAS RANA | April 9, 2018
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, and other senior Liberals sent out emails, late last month, to rank and file members, asking them to donate money to the party. The Hill Times file photographs
News | BY ABBAS RANA | April 9, 2018
News | BY ABBAS RANA | April 9, 2018
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, and other senior Liberals sent out emails, late last month, to rank and file members, asking them to donate money to the party. The Hill Times file photographs
News | BY CHARELLE EVELYN | March 21, 2018
New rules to ‘strengthen’ laws around third-party election activity are coming, says the office of Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould, left, pictured in June 2017. Treasury Board President Scott Brison is filling in for Ms. Gould while she is on maternity leave. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
News | BY CHARELLE EVELYN | March 21, 2018
News | BY CHARELLE EVELYN | March 21, 2018
New rules to ‘strengthen’ laws around third-party election activity are coming, says the office of Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould, left, pictured in June 2017. Treasury Board President Scott Brison is filling in for Ms. Gould while she is on maternity leave. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
Opinion | BY DANIEL GREEN | March 21, 2018
MP Michel Boudrias, with the breakaway Bloc Québécois caucus, has proposed a private member's bill to limit donations to political parties. The Hill Times file photograph
Opinion | BY DANIEL GREEN | March 21, 2018
Opinion | BY DANIEL GREEN | March 21, 2018
MP Michel Boudrias, with the breakaway Bloc Québécois caucus, has proposed a private member's bill to limit donations to political parties. The Hill Times file photograph