24-k gold casket: Who says you can’t take it with you?

Province invests $3.8M in culinary arts training facility for francophone high school students

A new dedicated culinary arts training facility will give francophone high school students a place to learn the trade in French.

24-k gold casket: Who says you can’t take it with you?

For those who prefer the finer things in life -- and, perhaps, in the afterlife -- why not a golden coffin?

People hoping to pimp their funeral might consider Batesville Casket's $24,000 Promethean, a bronze number with gold plating you may remember from the burial of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.

There's also the $34,500 version from Golden Casket, which the firm says is gilded with 24-karat gold and requires "hundreds of hours of handcraftsmanship."

In an age when mourners can buy caskets at Costco, the idea of an elaborate send-off into the beyond, a la Egyptian pyramid tombs, is antiquated, say mortuary-science scholars.

Students from France visit Winnipeg to learn about soldiers who helped liberate their country

Travelling nearly 7,000 km from his home in France to Winnipeg gave Gabriel Zaranski a new perspective on warfare.

“It’s very different to speak about war in school (than) to speak with real people who (have fought) in a war,” he said. “We can feel the emotion when they speak … The testimony has more impact when it’s real soldiers.”

Zaranski is one of 14 Grade 12 students from Bayeux, a town in France’s Normandy region, in Winnipeg this week for a learning tour.

The students, who attend Lycée Arcisse de Caumont high school, met on Saturday with veterans from the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, a local military regiment, to discuss their studies and the regiment’s role in the Second World War.

Restaurants ‘under pressure’

Happy hour outings are on Jackie Piggott’s calendar — but even those are fewer.

She and her husband might visit a restaurant once a month. It’s a change over the past year: earlier, they might go twice, thrice or weekly.

“It’s something that we’ve talked about, my husband and myself, just because the pricing is so expensive,” Piggott said, stopping during a grocery run in St. Vital. “It’s also better for our health.”

She’s in the majority: a new Restaurants Canada report found 80 per cent of Canadians are eating out less frequently because of higher living costs, up from 75 per cent in 2025.

Stevenson set to be Skinner’s backup

The Winnipeg Jets have filled a need by grabbing a goaltender off the waiver wire.

Clay Stevenson was claimed by the club on Monday afternoon and will immediately step into the role as backup to new No. 1 man, Stuart Skinner.

Stevenson, 27, is from Alberta and has spent most of his career in the American Hockey League, posting eye-popping numbers for the Hershey Bears, who are the affiliate of the Washington Capitals.

The 6-4, 195 pound puck stopper had to clear waivers in order to be sent down out of Washington’s camp this year. Stevenson’s path to the Capitals net was blocked by Logan Thompson and Charlie Lindgren.