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If convicted fraudster Ian Thow is thinking about making a run for the border now that he's a free man, he ought to think again, according to the National Parole Board. While Thow, who was born in California and is a dual citizen of the U.S.

Some U.S. cattle producers want the U.S. government to block the possible sale of a troubled Alberta company's beef operations.

An early-stage proposal to ship as many as one million barrels a day of western crude to eastern refineries seems to be gaining traction, executives with pipeline giant TransCanada said Tuesday.

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.