Fluoride has been added to the tap water in Drayton Valley since the mid 1960s, but that may all be about to end. Last Wednesday town council heard a presentation from water plant manager Bernie Berube, who urged them to abandon the process. Fluoride is added to drinking water because it helps to prevent dental […]
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Doubts remain about water fluoridation effectiveness
Restaurants, schools and society have accepted that some people are allergic to peanuts and have accommodated their needs through needed regulations and protocols. And doctors, nurses and the medical community have taken steps to protect patients who are hyper sensitive to penicillin. So why, asks Carole Clinch, research co-ordinator for People for Safe Drinking Water, […]
Dryden voters soundly reject fluoridation
FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK FAN Bulletin 953: A HUGE victory in Dryden, Ontario April 15, 2008 Yesterday the citizens of Dryden delivered a huge rejection to the notion of restarting fluoridation in their town. A massive majority said NO – 1902 versus 292. That’s 87% to 13%. This is an embarrassing defeat for Canada’s chief dental […]
Belleville: Health board wary of water request
A plea to pull fluoride from municipal water sources was met with quiet caution from public health board officials Wednesday. Picton resident Pablo Wille made his argument to health board members at their monthly meeting, Wednesday. “We put it in the water hoping it will fix the teeth,” he said. “It doesn’t. It is time […]
Quebec City ends 36 years of fluoridation
FAN Bulletin 946: VICTORY in Quebec confirmed! March 27, 2008 After the council of Quebec City issued its intention last year to end fluoridation on April 1, 2008, promoters of fluoridation in government went into action and lobbied to get them to change their mind. Despite these efforts, and those by a newly elected mayor […]
Côte St. Luc ‘better not fluoridate the water,’ fluoride opponent tells mayor
A Côte St. Luc environmentalist has warned Mayor Anthony Housefather that he better do his homework before taking any serious steps towards having fluoride injected into Côte St. Luc’s drinking water. Last week during Côte St. Luc city council’s monthly sitting, Marsha Akman, a Macdonald Avenue resident, reacted to a news story published in the […]
Time to sink teeth into fluoride issue
Those who questioned the use of fluoride in the municipal water supply were once thought to be wacky, like the U.S. general in the 1964 classic movie Dr. Strangelove. Today, years after that Hollywood portrayal of fluoridation as a communist plot, the public has every reason to wonder — and worry — whether the chemical […]
Politician raises new fear about fluoride
A Calgary alderman is urging council to revisit the issue of adding fluoride to city drinking water. Ald. Druh Farrell said she’s concerned by new information on the damaging effects of fluoridating water and is thinking of bringing the issue to council. “It always makes sense to review new information,” said Farrell. Water fluoridation has […]
Alberta dentists support for fluoridation in 1955
A look back at the growth of our city from the archives of the Calgary Herald April 16, 1955: Dentists of Alberta reaffirmed their support of a fluoridation program for communal water supplies throughout the province when they met Friday at the annual meeting of the Alberta Dental Association, held at the Palliser Hotel. Their […]
Dryden to go to polls on fluoridation
Dryden residents will vote next month on whether fluoride should be added to the municipal water supply. The question will be put to voters in a byelection plebiscite slated for April 14. The city issued a public notice this week to eligible voters, stating that the city will not be using vote-by-mail for this byelection. […]