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Mahon: Railroads should no longer have police forces

12.09.2025 10

The London Free Press

Paul Mahon

Mahon: Railroads should no longer have police forces

Mahon: Railroads should no longer have police forces

In the early days of Canada, it became a requirement of the times that Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway operate their own police...

11.09.2025 4

Sarnia Observer

Paul Mahon

Mahon: The summons to Dr. Dirt's office

The Middlesex Agricultural Hall of Fame announced its inductees recently, and it stirred an old memory when I read that one of the men honoured was...

06.06.2025 10

Sarnia Observer

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Mahon: Get tough on crime? Who and where are the criminals?

05.06.2025 4

The London Free Press

Paul Mahon

Mahon: Get tough on crime? Who and where are the criminals?

Politicians of many colours and levels frequently like to toss an old favourite into the election promise mix. They promise to get tough on crime.

05.06.2025 4

Sarnia Observer

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Mahon: An ancient gift of graft that has grown on me

11.03.2025 10

The London Free Press

Paul Mahon

Mahon: An ancient gift of graft that has grown on me

06.03.2025 5

Sarnia Observer

Paul Mahon

Mahon: A savings plan with an uptake of just a third

31.01.2025 10

The London Free Press

Paul Mahon

Mahon: A savings plan with an uptake of just a third

It is like a three-way cross between Registered Education Savings Plans, Agristability, and a pension plan.

30.01.2025 6

Sarnia Observer

Paul Mahon

Mahon: $800 million is a huge number, until it isn't

14.11.2024 4

The London Free Press

Paul Mahon

Mahon: $800 million is a huge number, until it isn't

The AAA estimated that animal activist groups will earn about $800 million in the U.S. in 2024 from charitable donations by its members. The Animal...

13.11.2024 10

Sarnia Observer

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Mahon: A half century of secret farmland investor rumours

Whether there is old money from Europe, family or institutional, or whether it is someone growing through luck or leverage, whether it is money...

01.11.2024 2

Sarnia Observer

Paul Mahon

Mahon: A half century of secret farmland investor rumours

31.10.2024 4

The London Free Press

Paul Mahon

Mahon: They aren’t making any more of it, are they?

01.10.2024 3

The London Free Press

Paul Mahon

Mahon: They aren’t making any more of it, are they?

The current reality for farmland buying bears some small resemblance to small-town publishing a few decades back The small town newspaper publisher...

28.09.2024 3

Sarnia Observer

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Mahon: What we build up so lovingly with our hands

I was told several years ago about this old German saying, although I can't find any modern reference to it. “What we build up so lovingly with our...

12.09.2024 5

Sarnia Observer

Paul Mahon

Mahon: There have always been ‘ghosts in the machine’

06.09.2024 2

The London Free Press

Paul Mahon

Mahon: There have always been ‘ghosts in the machine’

When I see collections of old but working farm equipment on display at this time of year, at fairs and events, I often think about the 'ghost in...

06.09.2024 2

Sarnia Observer

Paul Mahon

Mahon: Drilling deep on those 27,000 oil and gas wells

08.08.2024 1

The London Free Press

Paul Mahon