BORDEN-CARLETON, P.E.I. — A New Brunswick girl vying to set the Guinness World Record for the youngest person to swim across the Northumberland Strait completed the 15-kilometre crossing on Sunday. Twelve-year-old Brooklyn Douthwright of Riverview completed the swim from Cape Jourimain, N.B., to Borden-Carleton, P.E.I., in about four hours. DouthwrightRead More

MONTREAL — A former New Democrat MP from Quebec is joining the Green Party. Sources say Green Party leader Elizabeth May will announce in Montreal today that Jose Nunez-Melo will run under the Green banner in the new suburban Montreal riding of Vimy. Nunez-Melo was elected to the House ofRead More

TORONTO — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says Prime Minister Stephen Harper should fire some of his senior staffers. It’s over revelations this week about the $90,000 payment from Harper’s former chief of staff Nigel Wright to cover Sen. Mike Duffy’s questioned expenses. When it was revealed in June 2013 thatRead More

Toronto:Toronto Public Health says it has issued a heat alert for the city, urging the elderly, small children and those with illnesses that react negatively to heat to stay indoors. Temperatures will rise to at least 32 C this afternoon, with very high humidity levels and barely any wind. EnvironmentRead More

TORONTO: Seeking to provide “new impetus” to their economic relations, Canada and India are jointly working to finalise a bilateral foreign investment agreement to accelerate investments, Canada’s Defence Minister has said. Jason Kenney, Canada’s Minister of National Defence and Minister for Multiculturalism, said the Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion AgreementRead More

OTTAWA — Simran Jha arrived at a Conservative rally earlier this week looking to meet the Harpers. No, not Stephen and Laureen. Jha and a gaggle of teenagers were standing outside asking anyone near a Conservative campaign bus for workers and media whether there was any way to meet theRead More

Toronto:Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is expected to grab the election headlines Saturday while targeting former Liberal ridings, as the only one of the major three party leaders holding public events. He begins the day in north Toronto, hoping to woo voters in a long-held Liberal riding that the Conservatives scoopedRead More

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The Canadian Federation of Students wants to put growing education debt on the federal election radar and says other governments should follow Newfoundland and Labrador’s shift to student grants instead of loans. “We have a crisis in Canada when it comes to overall student debt burdens,”Read More

TORONTO — The New Democrats are pitting a former Saskatchewan finance minister against the incumbent federal minister in his central Toronto riding. Tom Mulcair announced Friday that Andrew Thomson would carry the orange banner to challenge Conservative Joe Oliver, and said he’d take Thomson’s record over that of Prime MinisterRead More

TORONTO – A female manager with the Pan and Parapan American Games alleges in a lawsuit filed Thursday that she was sexually harassed by former Ontario premier and TO2015 chairman David Peterson. The Globe and Mail reports Ximena Morris, 34, further alleges that when she complained to human resources andRead More