Re: City council owes it to Calgary’s children to return fluoride to our water, Opinion, Dec. 26 Catherine Ford’s essay on fluoride is long on rhetoric and short on logic. Why would a city spend $10 million-plus to spike the water supply with fluoride while more than 99 per cent is flushed through the toilet […]
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Ford: City council owes it to Calgary’s children to return fluoride to our water
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Catherine Ford is a columnist and has the right to share her opinion, however misinformed it is. She states, “The anti-fluoride crowd is passionate in its argument against the additive, calling it poison, saying it builds up in the body and causes all sorts of dreadful conditions, taking the “risk” […]
Juliet Guichon letter: No debate on fluoride
On Dec. 14, Calgary city council could have significantly helped Calgarians by 1. reducing pain, suffering, cost and misery; 2. wisely investing (spending $1.29 to save $55.47); 3. addressing racial inequity; 4. honouring the will of the people expressed in two plebiscites; 5. following medical advice; and 6. attracting young families. City council could have […]
Councillors to review costs of reintroducing fluoride in drinking water
CALGARY (660 NEWS) – The city’s drinking water will be a topic of discussion at City Hall on Monday. Councillors will review the costs associated with returning fluoride to the water after it was removed in 2011. The report coming to council pegs the initial cost to reintroduce the mineral at $30 million with an […]
Calgary. Letter: What about the waste?
A fluoride story this week suggests Calgary spend around $35 million over the next 20 years to reintroduce and maintain a fluoridated water supply. Does anyone have a clue just how many people drink tap water these days? Any studies to support this thinking? If the goal is to prevent tooth decay, how much fluoride […]
Fluoride’s future in Calgary still an open question after council eyes city report
The city stopped adding fluoride to drinking water after a council vote to remove it in 2011, and city officials say reintroducing it would cost $30.1 million over a 20-year service life A council committee looked at a new report on water fluoridation without much fanfare Tuesday. The city stopped adding fluoride to drinking water […]
$30M cost to reintroduce fluoride to Calgary’s drinking water: City report
CALGARY — Calgary councillors now know how much it would cost to reintroduce fluoride into the city’s drinking water, but a debate about whether it should happen will come at a future meeting. Members of the Priorities and Finance Committee received a presentation Tuesday on the costs of the program, but the item was only […]
Contentious water fluoridation debate back on tap in council this week
Council’s priorities and finance committee will receive a report Tuesday on the cost of reintroducing fluoride to the city’s drinking water One of Calgary’s most historically contentious issues will be back before council members this week. Council’s priorities and finance committee will receive a report Tuesday on the cost of reintroducing fluoride to the city’s […]
Cost for fluoride in Calgary’s water would be $30 million: City report
There would also be ongoing maintenance costs of $2 million to $4 million; report goes to council committee Dec. 1 Reintroducing fluoride into Calgary’s water will cost the city a total of $30 million, with annual operating and maintenance costs of up to $4 million. An administration review coming to the Priorities and Finance committee […]
Advocates push Calgary council committee to put water fluoridation back on table
‘The benefit of fluoridation is taught in every dental school in the country,’ says head of dental association Calgarians for Kids’ Health and the Alberta Dental Association and College want the city’s finance committee to vote in favour of fluoridation reinstatement when the committee considers the matter on Dec. 1. (Shutterstock) Child health and dental […]