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Also a couple of Canadian films, a Buddhist satire on America and Ethan Coen gone solo and low-rent

The party says its 2023 numbers show it couldn't be any clearer that Canadians are looking for change from the current government.

The Conservative Party continues to hold a big fundraising edge over the Liberals, bringing in millions more than the governing party in this year's second quarter.

The Conservative Party of Canada brought in more donations during the first three months of the year than any other federal party.

The Conservative party has set a fundraising record for a non-election year under the new leadership of Pierre Poilievre, and it is outpacing other federal parties.

The co-founder of GiveSendGo, a crowdfunding platform used by protesters who blockaded the national capital, testified on Thursday, March 3, 2022, to being OK with hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and Proud Boys fundraising on the site, so long as it was legal.

NBC News has reported that the protests, originally branded as a "trucker convoy" comprising drivers angry at being forced to get vaccinated against COVID-19, were being promoted by fake accounts connected to so-called "content mills" in Bangladesh, Romania, Vietnam and elsewhere.

An in-depth analysis by The Canadian Press of federal parties' financing at the grassroots level shows Conservative candidates' riding-based war chests are flush with cash, dramatically outpacing their political rivals.

Federal parties appear to have seen a drop in their fundraising in 2020, a year when the pandemic dented donations of all kinds and made parties rethink some of their traditional fundraising tools.

Valentina Shamoun found community at the local Boys and Girls Club (recently renamed BGC Canada) soon after leaving Syria at the start of that country’s civil war and has been involved ever since. Last month, she was named the Canadian chapter’s youth of the year.

Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre has been bursting at the seams for years, while most of its staff work in rental space across the street from the heritage-listed theatre. So they bought that building and will spend the ongoing pandemic downtime to renovate both spaces while also fundraising the second half of the $10.5-million project.

Conservative leadership candidates Peter MacKay and Erin O'Toole wasted little time on Thursday, April 30, 2020, leaping back into full campaign — and attack — mode after new fundraising numbers highlighted their potential neck-and-neck status as the contest got back underway.

Manitoba's Liberal leader has gone from political backrooms to elected office after winning a seat in the legislature last year.

The Liberals and Conservatives are matched fairly evenly when it comes to how ready their local campaigns are to pay for the coming federal election, a shift from when the big blue machine dominated the scene the last time around.