Just days after Calgary city council voted to stop using fluoride in their water, Saskatoon is set to begin a $200,000 renovation to the city’s fluoridation system. Starting next week the entire chemical system at Saskatoon’s water treatment plant will be replaced, according to plant manager Troy LaFreniere. Use of fluoride has become an issue […]
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London: Fluoride attack coming to city
Anti-fluoride activists, fresh off two huge victories in major Canadian cities, are bringing their fight to London. Nearly 50 years after the teeth-toughening compound was first added to Forest City water, the same kinds of groups rejoicing over the recent removal of fluoride in Calgary and Waterloo will hammer the issue here next month. To […]
Calgary: Common sense, courage flowing at City Hall
Maybe there’s something in the water, but this city council sure knows how to make a decision. No waffling, no calls for endless studies, just bold, potentially controversial and right-minded decisions. It’s as though someone turned on the tap and common sense and courage started to flow at City Hall. On Tuesday, Calgary’s city council […]
Calgary: The moral imperative. Council makes right decision on the ethics of mass fluoridation
Calgary city council deserves praise for voting overwhelmingly Tuesday to remove fluoride from Calgary’s drinking water. The 10-3 vote, with Mayor Naheed Nenshi absent for meetings in Toronto, is a courageous step on a contentious issue. Despite pressure from the scientific establishment to keep fluoridation, council made the right decision. Imposing mass fluoridation on an […]
Calgary: Fluoride is out
If city council gets its way, fluoride in Calgary’s water supply will be a thing of the past. Councilors spent much of the afternoon on Tuesday debating the issue and in the end they agreed to stop adding fluoride to the water. Ten councilors supported the removal and just three were opposed to the motion. […]
Verchères council votes unanimously to end fluoridation
An email sent to Gilles Parent from Luc Fortin, a council member of Verchères, announced that the council voted unanimously to end fluoridation. The resolution was made on Feb 7, 2011, and the fluoride was turned off on Feb 8. The email sent to Gilles: Adopté à l’unanimité ! (J’en était le “proposeur”) La résolution […]
Calgary: Aldermen ready to pull plug on fluoride
Half of Calgary’s aldermen say support for a fluoride-treated water supply has dried up and its fate shouldn’t be decided in a public vote. Ald. John Mar, along with several other council members polled by the Sun ahead of Monday’s meeting where fluoride will be debated, are ready to pull the plug on Mayor Naheed […]
Lake Cowichan: Fluoridation vote this fall at the Lake
Lake Cowichan residents will get to cast the deciding vote in a referendum this fall on whether or not to fluoridate the municipal water system. The Town of Lake Cowichan has been adding fluoride to the system for decades and there have been many discussions over the years on whether or not the practice should […]
Calgary: U of C medical faculty offers advice on city’s fluoride decision
The University of Calgary’s faculty of medicine has offered to strike an expert panel before the city vote on removing fluoride from Calgary’s water supply Feb. 7. “The medical school is still happy to make staff available to work with the city and to provide whatever scientific help the city might need on figuring out […]
Algoma: Flouride debate grows
A burgeoning anti-fluoride movement has not swayed Algoma Public Health support for infusing the municipal water system with the chemical, which average Sault Ste. Marie residents have opposed for decades. “We have always supported the concept of water fluoridation and we never changed our position on that, because the research and the World Health Organization […]