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Eight months of lengthy discussions came to an end on Monday night when Moncton city council voted to stick to the status quo of not adding fluoride to the municipality’s water. In 2011, after a contentious debate, Moncton council voted to suspend adding fluoride to the city’s water for five years. At the time, council asked the […]

Riverview town council is following Dieppe’s lead, and calling on the federal government to do a comprehensive study on water fluoridation. Both Riverview and Dieppe purchase their water from the City of Moncton, which removed fluoride five years ago. It’s been a controversial decision, and dentists in the area are now calling for a return […]

MONCTON, N.B. — Despite pleas from dentists to restore fluoride to the water supply in Moncton, N.B., at least one city councillor says he’ll vote against it when council meets to make a decision next week. Moncton ended fluoride use in 2011, and local dentist Suzanne Drapeau-McNally says she has seen a dramatic increase in […]

Fluoride is back on the agenda at the Committee of the Whole meeting this afternoon, and it is expected to generate more discussion as to whether or not it should be added back into Greater Moncton’s water supply. Vice President of the New Brunswick Dental Society Dr. Suzanne Drapeau-McNally says ultimately she is confident Council […]

Moncton Mayor Dawn Arnold has told a group of citizens council will take more than a month to decide if fluoride will go back into the city’s drinking water. About 25 people rose to stand behind Jennifer Jones during her presentation at Monday’s meeting. “Many of us watched last Monday’s presentation [and] can’t understand why you would […]

About 80 people, including the Mayor of Riverview and Dieppe, sat in Moncton council chambers for three hours Monday night, listening to presentations for and against the addition of fluoride to the city’s municipal water. Against fluoridation was a group represented by a dentist, a pharmacist, a community member, and Olivier Clarisse, a professor at the University of Moncton who studies the […]

In 2011, Moncton City Council voted to adopt the following motion regarding fluoride in our water supply: That the introduction of hexafluorosilicic acid into the Greater Moncton water supply cease for a period of five years, at which time it will be reviewed; That the City of Moncton request the New Brunswick Department of Health […]

Council wants to hear from interest groups at public meeting Jan. 30 and residents online by Feb. 6 Moncton councillors will hold a special public meeting next month to discuss reintroducing fluoride to the city’s drinking water supply. Only special interest groups will be allowed to make presentations at the committee-of-the-whole meeting, which is set […]

MONCTON, N.B.—Restoring fluoride to drinking water is a no-brainer, say dentists in one New Brunswick city, citing a dramatic increase in tooth decay since fluoride use ended there in 2011. Suzanne Drapeau-McNally of Moncton says she has seen the startling change among patients at her clinic over the last five years. “The first thing (patients) […]

Dentists are urging Moncton to resume putting fluoride in its water after its five-year moratorium on the practice expires on Dec. 31. Suzanne Drapeau-McNally of the New Brunswick Dental Association says “a tremendous change” has occurred in the level of tooth decay in Moncton patients in the last five years. Drapeau-McNally estimates tooth decay in children […]