Adding to the madness of the 2016 US presidential election is American lawyer Andrew Basiago. He claims to have traveled through time nearly all his life, and is pretty sure that he’s going to become “either president or vice president” between 2016 and 2028. Polling data is obviously of little use to this guy.

Basiago, a Washington-based attorney, first started talking about his experience with time travel in 2004, with Project Pegasus – a top secret organisation studying the effects of time travel and teleportation on children. So between 1968 and 1972, when Basiago was a young boy of seven, he claims to have participated in several experiments that transported him through time, space, and even parallel universes. His mission, supposedly, was to provide the US President at thePORT HOPE -- Rachel Lancaster, at home in Port Hope, recently became the director of marketing for Amref Health Africa, an organization that brings health care to remote areas in Africa. - Karen Longwell / Metroland

PORT HOPE — The chance to help women and children gain access to health care in rural Africa drew Port Hope resident Rachel Lancaster to a change in career direction.

After working in advertising and the financial sector, Lancaster took on the role as director of marketing for Amref Health Africa this year. She had previously worked at Amref from 2010 to 2013, and returned in 2017 to set up the marketing and fundraising department.

Lancaster has a background in strategic planning, direct marketing and advertising. She has led high-profile initiatives within the financial sector