Calgary council has bitten off more than it could chew on the fluoride issue. Aldermen voted last year to stop adding fluoride to the city’s drinking water, and promised to divert the $750,000 in annual savings to improve dental health of poor children. Now, former Ward 9 alderman Joe Ceci says not one dollar has […]
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Calgary breaking fluoride promise, anti-poverty activist claims
A former alderman is calling on the city to “live up to its end of the fluoride bargain” and allocate funds to improve the dental health of poor children. It’s been almost a year since council voted to stop adding fluoride to the city’s drinking water and use the $750,000 in annual savings to sponsor […]
Oakville/Halton: Sheldon Thomas of Clear Water Legacy responds to Dr. Sigal’s letter
Re: Letter to the editor, Monday, Dec. 26, 2010 [sic] UTM weighs in on debate on fluoride. Dr. Sigal, I, too, reside in Halton, and I agree with you that the fluoridation debate is all about the health of the future children of Halton and its communities. Fluoride has the capacity to injure children, in […]
Muskoka: District fluoride debate ends … sort of
MUSKOKA – Water wars raged in the district council chamber this past year. The fluoridation of municipal water was one of the most heated topics within the District Municipality of Muskoka in 2011. The battle began when Huntsville resident and dentist Jim Bjork told district council fluoride was a health hazard and that its addition […]
Oakville/ Halton: UTM weighs in on debate on fluoride
It has been brought to my attention that the Town of Oakville/Halton Region is considering the removal of fluoride from the water supply. I have learned of this from reading the articles on the topic, primarily from the anti-fluoride group, in The Oakville Beaver. I am a resident of Oakville, in the Clearview area for […]
London: Mayor fails to quash meeting on fluoride use
Despite an effort by Mayor Joe Fontana to nix a public meeting on fluoride use in London, politicians have endorsed holding one next month. Council’s civic-works committee received a staff recommendation to hold a meeting on Jan. 25 at 7 p.m., when critics of the long-used additive would be able to voice their concerns about […]
Moncton to drop fluoride from water
Say goodbye to fluoride in your drinking water, Metro Moncton. Moncton city council voted last night to put a moratorium on fluoride use in the municipal water supply for the next five years. The city’s plan is to then review the decision, and in the meantime, council voted that, “Moncton request the N.B. Department of […]
Ontario, Canada: Cleanup order may be imminent for Hamilton airport
City council has asked the Ministry of the Environment to share the pain of a looming order to clean up pollution at the Hamilton airport. Hamilton could be slapped with a provincial cleanup order at any time now that council has opted — at least for now — not to help pay for a study […]
Saint John: Council urged to keep fluoride
New Brunswick dentists are urging Saint John Common Council to keep fluoride in the drinking water as the city grapples with swelling water costs. Saint John is one of only three New Brunswick municipalities that continues to add fluoride to the water supply as a way to prevent tooth decay. The others are Oromocto and […]
Manitoba: Fluoride fighters flourish
FLIN FLON — Northern Manitoba is either ahead of the fluoridation curve or it’s falling behind. A recent referendum in Churchill, in which a majority called for the end of fluoridation, was just the latest chapter in a movement sweeping the North. Since the mid-1990s, Snow Lake, Cranberry Portage and Flin Flon have all ceased […]