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Tecumseth: Councillors agree to eliminate fluoride, ratification vote next Monday
New Tecumseth councillors voted 6-4 in committee last night to end a 40 year practice of adding fluoride to Tottenham’s drinking water supply following a spirited debate that lasted nearly two hours and involved pleas from the County’s medical officer of health, and the local dentist who championed the cause back in 1973. Ward 8 […]
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Poots’ Department didn’t specifically respond to WHO report on fluoride
THE Department of Health didn’t specifically respond to research warning excess fluoride in tap water can mottle teeth and cause crippling skeletal fluorosis despite Edwin Poots’ consideration of fluoridating our drinking water. A spokesperson for the Department told the Sentinel it hasn’t responded specifically to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) 2006 ‘Fluoride in Drinking Water’ […]
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Home Alone. Does Angela Merkel even have a foreign policy?
With her third federal election triumph on Sunday, Sept. 22, German Chancellor Angela Merkel demonstrated that her preferred foreign policy direction is, well, inward — or at least one of non-intervention. Current crises around the globe — from the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons to Iran’s nuclear program to Egypt’s military coup — were […]
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Hinesburg Select Board hear concerns about fluoride in water
A Hinesburg resident, concerned about reports about potential harm fluoride poses, took his worries to the Board of Selectmen and members want to hear from the public about the issue. Karl Novak, who was unavailable for comment this week, introduced the question about fluoride’s effects in a letter to local media. Citing studies performed in […]
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Fluoride oversight leaves Intel with stain to clean: Editorial
Intel is to Oregon’s economy what Mount Hood is to its landscape: the signature feature that towers above everything else. It’s pretty much impossible for the semiconductor giant, with more than 17,000 employees in Oregon, to be inconspicuous. Its Washington County factories become visible from blocks away. Its employees and suppliers clog surrounding roads. Nevertheless, […]
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Pro-fluoride letter writer a registered lobbyist
Dr. Gerry Uswak speaks for a powerful lobby extravagantly funded by our tax dollars to promote toxic fluoride in our tap water. Rather than address directly the most recent scientific literature detailing the assaults on public health from fluoridated tap water, Dr. Uswak simply rhymes off a list of authorities caught in a time warp. […]
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Copper theft affects Adelanto water… arsenic, fluoride levels increased
ADELANTO • The city has added new security measures after copper thieves vandalized three water wells, causing arsenic and fluoride levels in the water to exceed EPA limits. The city recently notified residents that arsenic and fluoride levels in their drinking water exceeded EPA limits over a two-week period, but city officials say the levels […]
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Toronto. September 21: Rally at City Hall against water fluoridation, 1-5 pm
Hundreds of Torontonians plan to peacefully assemble at City Hall on September 21st, 2013 from 1-5pm to end water fluoridation in Toronto. So far, more than 300 people have confirmed their attendance on the Facebook page and more than 900 have signed the online petition. The chemical used to fluoridate Toronto’s tap water is hydrofluorosilicic […]
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Anti-fluoride protest Saturday in Sudbury
The longstanding debate over the treatment of Sudbury’s water with fluoride will be revived with a planned day of awareness on Saturday. A local group called Safe Sudbury Drinking Water, affiliated with Canadians Opposed to Fluoridation, has planned to stage a day of awareness about community fluoridation at Victory Park. The event will begin at […]
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Solar Energy is Still Dirty Energy
There is some confusion among concerned people regarding the difference between renewable and clean energy. Our best ideas all look to our primary source of energy in the world, the sun. The sun is, indeed a clean energy source when we are located millions and millions of miles away and protected by earth’s magnetic field. […]
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