Whether Calgary does or doesn’t have fluoride in its water appears to be a fluid situation. Last year, council voted in favour of adding fluoride after a plebiscite question in the municipal election. However, if you think you’ve been drinking it over the last 12 months, you’re mistaken. At the time of the vote, city […]
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Supply chain issues blamed for delay in Calgary fluoride reintroduction.
Last year city council voted in favour of putting fluoride back into Calgarians’ drinking water following a plebiscite question in the municipal election. While work was expected to take up to two years, city officials say the timeline has been extended to spring 2024 to factor in supply chain issues. As Tracy Nagai reports, those […]
Work on water treatment plant reducing fluoride to parts of Greater Sudbury.
People living in some parts of Greater Sudbury may want to make sure they use fluoridated toothpaste for the next little while. Public Health Sudbury and Districts issued the advice on Wednesday after its tests determined the fluoride concentrations in the water supply from the Vermillion Water Treatment Plant, operated by Vale and distributed by […]
Interruption with fluoridation in the municipal water supply from the Vermillion Water Treatment Plant.
Through routine monitoring, Public Health Sudbury & Districts has determined that the fluoride concentrations in the water supply from the Vermillion Water Treatment Plant, operated by Vale and distributed by the City of Greater Sudbury, are below therapeutic levels for optimal oral health. The low fluoride concentration is understood to be the result of planned […]
Petition to stop water fluoridation on West Island
Water fluoridation has been a regular practice in Canada since 1945, in order to prevent cavities and tooth decay and while the City of Montreal has stopped the process for those in Pointe-Claire their water is still fluoridated, a process some oppose. “It clearly says here, industrial use only,” says Ray Coelho, a Pointe-Claire resident, […]
American Manganese receives funding from Canada’s National Research Council for study on removal of fluoride from battery waste
“Innovation is at our core, and our goal is to stay ahead of the curve and offer the most advanced lithium-ion battery recycling and upcycling technology,” said company president and CEO Larry Reaugh American Manganese is a battery materials company focused on recycling and upcycling lithium-ion battery waste American Manganese Inc. (TSX-V:AMY, OTCQB:AMYZF) said it is […]
Third-party advertisers funnelled more than $2M into Calgary election
There was big spending from parties looking to sway votes in the fluoridation plebiscite, but only one side disclosed their finances A view of city hall in downtown Calgary. Darren Makowichuk/Postmedia Third-party advertisers collectively spent more than $2 million on their efforts to influence Calgary’s municipal election last fall. That’s according to disclosures from the […]
The importance of maintaining oral health by Dr. Pascaline Phillips ND
This is a huge topic, and oddly, one that I haven’t tackled before. So, I am going to be dividing this into two separate articles. Oral health is an extremely important factor in terms of our general health, yet, due to the nature of our health care system (there is no medicare coverage for dental […]
Fluoridation is the best way to prevent dental decay
Note from Fluoride Action Network: We have labeled this article misinformation because it states that “Fluoridation is safe“. No federal agency in any country has performed a health risk assessment on fluoridation’s effects on the pregnant woman, the fetus, or infant up to six months of age. The Mother-Offspring fluoride studies have reported that the […]
Missing label on fluoride drum cause of Gravenhurst water emergency, says district
Second review underway into water outage and boil-water advisory in November 2021 More details have been shared about the emergency that left Gravenhurst without a stable water supply for three and a half days. Chaos erupted at the Gravenhurst Water Treatment Plant the morning of Nov. 27, 2021. The town was under a do-not-use advisory […]