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Everything seems to be getting more expensive. Food, gas and housing prices are on the rise while paycheques are slow to keep pace. The CBC News series Priced Out explains why you’re paying more at the register and how Canadians are coping with the high cost of everything. The rising cost of food has compelled …

By Nichola Saminather TORONTO, April 7 (Reuters) – Canada’s top banks are shedding workers for the second straight year, moving toward leaner operations to satisfy investors demanding returns on tens of billions of dollars that lenders have poured into new technologies. Five of Canada’s six biggest banks cut their workforces 4.4% from a year earlier …

Spending very long periods of time in space has something in common with extreme endurance swimming: both can cause the heart to shrink. That’s the conclusion of a study that compared the effects of astronaut Scott Kelly’s year in space with a marathon swim by athlete Benoît Lecomte. Both remove the loads on the heart …

Microsoft Corp. easily trumped expectations with an earnings report Wednesday afternoon that displayed double-digit percentage gains in profit and sales, but shares dipped in late trading as the Azure cloud business’s growth rate continued to decline. The most valuable public company in the U.S. reported fiscal first-quarter profit of $10.7 billion, or $1.38 a share, …

Fibroids are mild tumors that develop inside a woman’s uterus. However, they are not cancerous. They occur most commonly among women during their reproductive age. It is also more common among obese and black women. While some fibroid cases are not evident and rarely cause problems, there are others that grown large and become a …