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A former immigration consultant in Winnipeg has been sentenced to 4 1 /2 years in prison for making fraudulent job offers to foreigners for financial gain.

The federal government is investigating foreign worker permits that will bring Chinese miners to British Columbia to determine whether the applications meet federal requirements.

Superstorm Sandy will close U.S. stock markets for a second day today as Wall Street turned its attention to whether markets would be able to resume functioning on the month's final trading day. U.S.

PayPal is cut- ting 325 full-time jobs in a move to streamline the business. EBay Inc.'s PayPal unit also said Monday that it is ending jobs with about 120 independent contractors worldwide. PayPal had 3,200 workers before Monday's cuts.

The Toronto stock market closed little changed Monday while major U.S. exchanges in New York City cancelled trading for the day as hurricane Sandy lurched toward the Eastern Seaboard.

Training facility designed for shipbuilding

The Quebec Superior Court approved a plan Monday for Garda World Security to be taken private by a consortium formed by the cash logistics and security company's CEO and private equity firm Apax Partners.

iPhone, Android have new rival with Windows 8

Burger King's net income fell 83 per cent in the third quarter as the world's second biggest hamburger chain sold off more of its restaurants to franchisees as part of a turnaround push.

Merger creates world's largest publisher