Manitoba's provincial government announced changes this past winter that could affect an 80-year-old agricultural program. Those policy changes could disadvantage some producers and fundamentally change the spirit of the valuable Community Pastures Program, says Lynne Fernandez.

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallisters statement that budget 2018 was going to be the "best budget ever" has fallen a bit flat, says Lynne Fernandez of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

To justify job cuts, Manitoba's finance minister has claimed the province's civil service is 20 per cent larger than the Canadian average. The problem with that reference is that the minister does not seem to understand the difference between the provincial civil service and the broader public sector, says Lynn Fernandez.