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Grant Lafleche is a longtime, award-winning reporter at The Catharine's Standard. His column, The Grant Rant, appears twice monthly in The Standard as part of his effort to root out the burning stupid. Also, he looks awesome in a fedora.
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The Grant Rants

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The Grant Rants · 2d ago

Climate change, tryants and killers, oh my!

Greetings heathens, zealots, web denizens, and the rest of you! There is stupid. There is burning stupid. There is atomic radioactive stupid. And then there is this: Apparently, according to an American think tank Heartland Institute – and I assume the word “think” is being used in the form of a jok
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The Grant Rants · 2d ago

Climate change, tyrants and killers, oh my!

Greetings heathens, zealots, web denizens, and the rest of you! There is stupid. There is burning stupid. There is atomic radioactive stupid. And then there is this: Apparently, according to an American think tank Heartland Institute – and I assume the word “think” is being used in the form of a jok
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The Grant Rants · 1W ago

The stupid it burns: anti-vampireism and bald as a hair colour edition

Greetings heathens, zealots, web denizens, and the rest of you! Ok, I have some ranty mojo brewing today and I’m in need of a target. Fortunately, the world is a big place with more stupid than it is possible to catalog, and it was easy enough to find one. Just up the highway in fact. [...]
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The Grant Rants · 2W ago

Mental health and suicide

Greetings heathens, zealots, web denizens, and the rest of you! Last week I wrote a story and a column about the death of David McIntrye, a 15-year-old from Smithville. In short, David was unable to find the help he and his parents desperately tried to get for him. He fell through the cracks for rea
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The Grant Rants · 2W ago

A funny thing happened on the way to Tim Hortons

Greetings heathens, zealots, web denizens, and the rest of you! I apologize for the lateness of this post, but I’ve been a wee bit busy of late and when that happens, my blog suffers neglect. And it gets bitter. Oh, but it does. Anyhoo, you may recall I had been engaged in a wager with [...]
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The Grant Rants · 4W ago

Living on sunshine: When the burning stupid kills

Greetings heathens, zealots, web denizens and the rest of you! There is burning stupid we can mock, and then there is the kind of atomic burning stupid that you really would mock if its results were not so tragic. Take this story coming out of Switzerland, by way of a for instance. A woman in [...]
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The Grant Rants · 1M ago

Alas, Poor Tim Hortons: Day 7,043

Greetings heathens, zealots, web denizens, and the rest of you! I had hoped, dear reader of the Rant, that by now I would be able to say I did not miss by beloved Tim Horton’s double double. That after more than a week after going cold turkey, I would be fine. That the other brands [...]
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The Grant Rants · 1M ago

In the inverse Law of Bill Donohue

There is a universal fact. Like gravity. Or the awesomeness of Mass Effect 3. (yes, yes some fanboys are having mental melt downs about the endings, but I figure they have been indoctrinated. If you don’t get that joke, go play the game! Seriously…go!) Essentially, if Bill Donohue’s Catholic League
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The Grant Rants · 1M ago

Alas, poor Tim Hortons: Day 2: “The cheaper the coffee, the gaudier the patter,” edition.

Greetings zealots, and heathens and…how does the rest go?….web people or something or other?…oh forget it… So, 48 hours without my Tim Horton’s double-double have past. I finally broke down and got a coffee from another coffee joint. I will not name the place, since I love their tomato bisque, and I
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The Grant Rants · 1M ago

Alas poor Tim Hortons Day 1: Grant Smash edition

This might be uncharitable, but right now one of my fellow journalists has a voice that sounds like an angry hornet in my ear. It is unpleasant. If it doesn’t stop, there is a very real chance I might turn large, green and all ragey (with a cameo by Stan Lee, of course.) Of course, [...]
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